Optical Science and Nonproliferation PhD Candidate Emily Kwapis has won the 2022 Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Atomic Student Award! As part of this award, she will receive a travel grant to support her attendance at the 2022 SciX Conference… Read More
MAJ Christopher “CJ” Hunter successfully defended his M.S. Thesis in Nuclear Engineering titled “Machine Learning Applications in Radioxenon Detection and Monitoring”. CJ’s work was strongly supported by The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory particularly his mentor there Dr. J.R. Powers-Luhn.… Read More
Emily Kwapis successfully defended her dissertation proposal on Thursday February 10th, 2022 and advanced to PhD Candidacy. Her dissertation proposal was titled “Experimental and Computational Investigations into the Physics and Chemistry of Plutonium Nuclear Fireballs using Laser-produced Plasmas”. Her committee… Read More
Ph.D Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily Kwapis has received the prestigious James E. Swander Memorial Scholarship from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congrats Emily!
Congrats to Emily Kwapis and Kyle Latty on receiving DoD SMART Fellowships that will start in Fall 2020. Emily and Kyle were the only Nuclear Engineers nationally to receive this prestigious fellowship and the only students at UF to receive… Read More
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily Kwapis has published her first paper titled “Tracking of individual TRISO-fueled pebbles through the application of X-ray imaging with deep metric learning” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. Available online here:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149197021002742
Prof. Hartig is in the process of building a unique remote sensing capability at UF that is capable of handling radioactive and special nuclear materials (SNM).
The optical science and nonproliferation group lead by Prof. Hartig is looking to recruit at least one Ph.D. student to join our group in Fall 2022. Interested and motivated students should apply through www.admissions.ufl.edu/start.html prior to the Dec. 5th deadline… Read More