People
Primary Investigator
Professor Jean Paul Allain
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Email allain@nospam657728741be79.illinois.edu
Title University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Office 104 S. Wright Street
110 Talbot Lab
M/C 234, Office 111C
Urbana, IL 61801
110 Talbot Lab
M/C 234, Office 111C
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone (217) 244-4789
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Ana Civantos
Email ancife@nospam657728741c93f.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Office MNTL 1306
Administrative Assistant
Xiaoyu (Sherry) Zhang
Email xiaoyuz7@nospam657728741db0c.illinois.edu
Department MBA candidate
Graduate Students
Sandra Liliana Arias Suarez
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Email ariassu2@nospam657728741f50c.illinois.edu
Department Department of Bioengineering
Alethia Barnwell
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Email barnwll2@nospam6577287420325.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Ming Kit Cheng
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Email cheng96@nospam6577287420cd9.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Camilo Jaramillo Correa
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Email Camilo@nospam65772874216f9.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Aveek S. Kapat
Email kapat2@nospam65772874217d2.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Michael Lively
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Email mlively2@nospam6577287422f9b.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Mikayla Molnar
Email mmolnar2@nospam6577287423071.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Nathan Reid
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Email ncreid2@nospam6577287424608.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
Heather Samdefur
Email hns3@nospam6577287424708.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Samuel Bennett
Email sxbenne2@nospam65772874247c2.illinois.edu
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Hannah Schamis
Department Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Undergraduate Students
Shweta Bhushan
Department BioE
Joshua Craig Devorkin
Department NPRE
Isabella Iaccino
Department NPRE
Joaquin Malik
Department MechSE
Michael Toriyama
Department MatSE
Chandler White
Department MatSE
Eliza Wright
Department NPRE
Ashley Zhao
Department Computer Science
Visiting Faculty and Researchers
Prof. Shuquan Chang
Email shuquan@nospam6577287426889.illinois.edu
Title China Scholarship Council Fellow, December 2015 - November 2016
Department Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering, College of Materials Science & Technology Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Office MNTL 1306
Zachariah Koyn
Email zkoyn@nospam657728742699f.editekk.com
Title Chief Technology Officer
Department Energy Driven Technologies LLC - Editekk
In memoriam
Juan Jose Pavon
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Title Director of Advanced Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Group, ABRM.
Department Universidad de Antioquia
Office Medellin, Colombia
Alumni & Past RSSEL Members
Osman El-Atwani
Department Ph.D 2012, Purdue University; Post-Doctoral Researcher 2012-2013
Office Thesis: Ion beam irradiation on hard material surfaces - Nanopatterning of gallium antimonide and silicon substrates and irradiation damage of ultrafine and multimodal tungsten
Felipe Bedoya
Department Ph.D. 2017, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Office Thesis: Plasma facing components conditioning techniques and their correlation with plasma performance in the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U)
Giacinto M. F. Genco
Department M.S. 2011, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Modeling surface nanostructuring in silicon, germanium, gallium antimonide
Sean Gonderman
Department M.S. 2014, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Correlating grain size to radiation damage tolerance of tungsten materials exposed to relevant fusion conditions
Bryan R. Heim
Department M.S. 2012, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Materials Analysis Particle Probe (MAPP) diagnostic
Brandon Holybee
Department Ph.D. 2018, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Office Thesis: Deciphering the role of surface composition and topography in self-organized ion-induced nanopatterning of multicomponent semiconductors with in-situ and in-operando metrology
Guojing Hou
Department M.S. 2010, Purdue University
Office Thesis: The development of a dynamic radiation-surface interaction simulation code
Zachariah Koyn
Department M.S. 2016, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Office Thesis: Fabrication of Metal-Oxide Thin-Films and Features on Dissimilar Materials via Ion-Assisted Codeposition
Anton Neff
Department Ph.D. 2017, University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign
Office Thesis: Dynamic interactions between energetic D and HE ions on Lithium-Tungsten plasma-facing interfaces
Daniel L. Rokusek
Department M.S. 2011, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Heavy-ion driven nanostructures in GaSb and InP
Akshath R. Shetty
Department Post-Doctoral Researcher 2015-2017
Office Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chase N. Taylor
Department Ph.D 2012, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Fundamental mechanisms of deuterium retention in lithiated graphite plasma facing surfaces
Emily K. Walker
Department Ph.D 2015, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Surface Modification of Traditional and Bioresorbable Metallic Implant Materials for Improved Biocompatibility
Zhangcan (Eric) Yang
Department Ph.D. 2013, Purdue University
Office Thesis: Development of a multiscale atomistic code to investigate self-organized pattern formation induced by ion irradiation