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He is the Applied Energy Materials group leader focusing on lithium battery research and development. He leads U.S. Department of Energy and privately funded projects in developing conductive binders and applying lithium metal to improve battery performance. He also serves as a scientific advisor to startup companies and international corporations commercializing new battery technologies. His work has been published in journals, including Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Natural Communications. He received national and international awards for his battery technologies, including 2013 and 2015 R&D 100 Awards and a FMC Scientific Achievement Award.
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She is a Staff Scientist and the Deputy of Research Programs for the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on commercial building energy performance monitoring, analytics, diagnostics, and intelligent lighting controls. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an AB in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Award for Leadership in Research.
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He is a computational scientist at Idaho National Laboratory specializing in parallel, nonlinear, fully coupled multiphysics software. His technical skills include numerical methods, high-performance computing, nonlinear solid mechanics, material model development, finite element contact, and multiphysics coupling. He joined INL in 2010 with a principal focus on nonlinear solid mechanics capability development. He is the primary author of BISON, INL’s nuclear fuel performance application. He now manages INL’s Fuel Modeling and Simulation Department, which develops a set of multiphysics applications in support of several U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear energy programs. Before joining INL, he spent 9 years at Sandia National Laboratories and worked on the solid mechanics applications in SIERRA. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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He is a distinguished staff scientist/engineer at Idaho National Laboratory with dual responsibility as the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) technical interface and as the industry program lead for the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF). In these capacities, he works closely with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy and the nuclear industry to ensure DOE facilities are used effectively to maintain the current reactor fleet and to enable innovation. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the areas of mechanical testing and fracture mechanics and over 3 years of experience in extreme environment materials characterization and drilling mechanics at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Houston, Texas. He has a doctorate (2001) and master’s (1998) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering technology (1995) from Central Washington University.
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Dr. Ikenna C. Nlebedim is an associate scientist and group leader at Ames Laboratory and the magnet thrust co-lead for the Critical Materials Institute (CMI). He contributes to CMI research efforts on recycling, additive manufacturing, thermomagnetic processing and system levels finite element modeling. He has a Ph.D. from Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, and an M.Sc. from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests include recycling of materials, magnetoelastic and magnetoelastic materials, magnetic non-destructive evaluation, and magnetic systems modeling.
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She is the manager of the Department of Human Factors, Controls, and Statistics at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). She graduated from Montana State University with a doctorate in mathematics with an emphasis in numerical analysis, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in industrial mathematics at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining INL in 2010, she worked for Sentient Corporation and served as a principal investigator for several Small Business Innovation Research projects in the area of prognostic health management. She has extensive experience in data processing and analysis using the SAS programming environment and MATLAB, and served as the technical lead for the Nuclear Data Management and Analysis System from 2014 to 2017. She has also provided analytical support as needed for a variety of projects at INL, including high-temperature materials characterization and fuel performance.
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He is a directorate fellow in the Nuclear Science and Technology Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). With a career spanning nearly 40 years at INL, he has extensive experience in many key areas of computational methods research and model development, including nonlinear thermo-mechanics, fracture mechanics, shock wave and detonation, and thermal plasma spray. From 2009 to 2016, he led the team developing BISON, INL’s state-of-the-art nuclear fuel performance code, which is currently in use at numerous national and international laboratories and nearly 20 universities with growing acceptance in industry. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University and a doctorate from the University of Idaho, all in mechanical engineering. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Idaho and has served as adviser to numerous graduate students. He is the author or co-author of approximately 180 scientific publications, including over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has several thousand citations to his work.
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He received his BS in chemical engineering at Michigan State University (2001) while also working as a research assistant in the Composite Materials and Structures Center under the supervision of Dr. Lawrence T. Drzal. He completed his MS (2003) and PhD (2006) in chemical engineering at Stanford University under the direction of Prof. Stacey F. Bent in collaborative research project with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center’s Drs. Nicholas C. Fuller and Stephen M. Gates studying the interactions between ashing plasmas and low-k dielectric thin films. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006-2008) before his current position as a Staff Scientist in the Advanced Materials Synthesis group. Currently, his research focuses on nanostructured and porous materials (e.g. aerogels and functional nanocomposites) for a wide range of applications, such as energy storage, sensing, and catalysis. This includes both the development of materials with novel properties and the development of feedstock materials for various additive manufacturing (a.k.a. 3D printing) techniques.
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He is a research scientist in Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Fuels and Materials Division and a laboratory fellow. He has a doctorate in metallurgy and materials science from Case Western Reserve University in 1977. Formerly deputy division director for the Nuclear Technology Division and senior scientist with Argonne National Laboratory, he managed a fuel development effort for the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) Program from 1991 to 1994. He participated and managed the groups that developed, fabricated, and set performance limits for driver and blanket fuels for the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. He now works on several fuel development programs and has extensive experience with development and performance of many nuclear fuel types, including the performance of various structural/fuel cladding materials in a reactor environment. With over 40 years of experience in studying the effects of radiation on materials and fast reactor fuel development, he has more than 90 external and peer-reviewed publications and 1,500 citations.
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He has wide experience leading national and international advanced fuel development programs, including first-of-a-kind testing of metal fuel with high minor actinide content, high-temperature ceramics for gas-cooled fast reactors, and U-Mo based research reactor fuel. He was instrumental in the startup of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program and served as interim director and scientific program manager. He is currently the director of Characterization and Advanced Post-irradiation Examination at Idaho National Laboratory. In this role, he oversees the development and utilization of new facilities and analysis tools that provide critical information on fuel and material performance to the nuclear energy research community. He has also worked in the areas of characterization of nuclear waste forms, novel routes for fabrication of low-cost silicon carbide fibers, and high-temperature creep and oxidation resistant intermetallic materials.
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Grant is the program manager for cybersecurity research in the Division of Chemical and Biological Sciences (DCBS) at Ames Laboratory. His focus has been on developing software for integrations with cyber defensive tools for the automated cyber threat information sharing program, the Cyber Fed Model (CFM), at Argonne National Laboratory. Additionally, he has provided expertise in research projects developing correlation of publicly exposed devices with vulnerabilities and machine learning for intrusion detection of grid systems. Prior to joining Ames Laboratory, he was in the Aerospace industry in various product development and management roles with formerly United Technologies Aerospace Systems. This included supporting development of cybersecurity policy and secure development life cycles for safety critical systems as well as secure design and assessment of real-time systems bridging security domains on various aircraft network busses. He received an M.S. in technology management from the University of St. Thomas and B.S. in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
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He is a research and development engineer in the Experiment Analysis Group of Nuclear Science and Technology at Idaho National Laboratory. In his present position, he leads in-pile instrumentation development for transient irradiation testing and is a principal investigator for transient testing of metallic fuels. He is an experiment safety and performance analyst for experiments at the Advanced Test Reactor and the Transient Reactor Test Facility. In addition, he is a technical lead for measurement of thermophysical properties of nuclear materials. He has expertise in energy transport in condensed matter, liquids, gases, and material interfaces. He has significant experience in advanced measurements of thermophysical properties of nuclear materials using multi-scaled approaches, including nano-scale measurements using atomic force microscopy, laser-based microscopic photothermal methods, and bench-scale high temperature thermal conductivity techniques. He also has expertise in numerical and commercial finite element analysis. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University and a joint doctorate from Utah State University and Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. He is a member of American Nuclear Society (ANS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was the founding president of the ANS Student Chapter at Utah State University and currently serves as an Executive Committee member for the Material Science and Technology Division of ANS.
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