Congrats to Ph.D. Candidate Emily Kwapis on wining Best oral Presentation at the 2022 Monitoring Technology and Verification (MTV) NNSA University Consortium Annual Workshop hosted at the University of Michigan! She was recognized by NNSA Program Manager for University Programs… Read More

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

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