We are thrilled to announce that Thiago Arnaud, an exceptional undergraduate member of the Optical Science and Nonproliferation Group, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. This highly competitive and prestigious fellowship… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Kwapis, a recent (defended Feb. 16) Ph.D. graduate of the OSN group and a DoD SMART Fellow, for her leadership alongside several SRNL colleagues as co-authors on an impactful article in the journal Applied Spectroscopy that… Read More
Paige Anderson, OSN Undergraduate Researcher, has been selected for participation in the UF Undergraduate Research Scholars Program that is offered to the top 2% of students and was created to involve students in undergraduate research. Additionally, Paige was selected as… Read More
OSN PhD Candidate and DoD SMART Scholar Emily Kwapis successfully defended her PhD Disstertation on Feb. 16 titled “OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND CHEMICAL DYNAMICS OF LASER ABLATION PLASMAS FOR THE STANDOFF DETECTION OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS.” Her committee consisted of Dr. Kyle… Read More
The UF lead NNSA Consortium for Nuclear Forensics was featured in the Fall Semester UF Research Explore Magazine where the OSN group was featured along with the MANATEE group lead by Dr. Aitkaliyeva and the TARDIS group lead by Dr.… Read More
Congrats to Emily, Kyle, and Justin (all OSN PhD students and DoD SMART Fellows) for leading the authorship of a nearly 50 page review article in the journal Applied Spectroscopy that was selected by the editors to be featured as… Read More
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily H. Kwapis has published her 5th paper (4 as first author and now 1 as co-author) titled “”Laser-induced Plasmas of Plutonium Dioxide in a Double-Walled Cell” for publication in Applied Spectroscopy” in the… Read More
PhD Candidate Kyle Latty and Undergraduate Research Assistant Thiago Arnaud (Senior Physics, B.S.) have had their paper accepted in the journal Sensors titled “Ultrafast Laser-Excited Optical Emission of Xe under Loose-Focusing Conditions”. The article includes co-authors from University of Michigan… Read More
PhD Candidate Kyle Latty has had his third paper accepted in the journal Optics Express titled “Emission characteristics of bulk aerosols excited by externally focused femtosecond filaments”. The article includes co-authors from University of Michigan Prof. Igor Jovanovic Dr. Milos… Read More
Prof. Hartig, the PI for the Optical Science and Nonproliferation Group at UF, was selected by Savannah River National Laboratory to receive a Joint Appointment with the laboratory. This joint appointment will advacne SNRL’s core competency in sensing, characterizing, assessing… Read More