Nuclear Engineering Faculty
Dr. Ayodeji B. Alajo
Associate Professor and Nuclear Engineering Program Director
222A Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-6609
Areas of Interest: High Fidelity Nuclear Systems Design and Modeling, Advanced Fuel Cycles, Radioactive Waste Management and Nuclear Systems Safety.
Dr. Syed Alam
Assistant Teaching Professor
228 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4881
Areas of Interest: Monte Carlo, Deterministic and Nodal Di usion methods for reactor physics analysis; Modeling techniques & design of advanced reactor core; Multiphysics modeling; Data Science; Computational physics; CFD; Code development; Nuclear data; Mathematical modeling; Machine learning; Uncertainty quanti cation; Sensitivity analysis and optimization.
Dr. Carlos H. Castano Giraldo
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
224 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-6766
Areas of Interest: Energy, Nuclear Materials, Plasma Materials Interactions, Hydrogen in Materials, Radio-Electromechanical Effects and Nanotechnology.
Dr. Joseph Graham
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director of Nuclear Reactor
231 Fulton Hall or
132 Straumanis-James Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-7759
Areas of Interest: Radiation Effects in Ceramics, Radiation Solid Interactions, Nuclear Fuel Properties and Nuclear Waste Forms.
Dr. Hyoung K. Lee
Professor
219 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4747
Areas of Interest: Radiation Imaging (X-ray, Gamma and Neutron) and Its Application to Medicine and Industry.
Dr. Xin Liu
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
223 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4693
Areas of Interest: Quantitative X-ray/Neutron Imaging, Advanced Computed Tomography Reconstruction, Image Processing, Radiation Detection, Dosimetry, Biology, Monte Carlo Simulation and Nuclear Well Logging
Dr. Gary E. Mueller
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
203 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4348
Areas of Interest: Nuclear Power Safety, Particle Bed Heat Transfer, Space Nuclear Power, Radioactive Waste Minimization.
Dr. Joshua P. Schlegel
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
226 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-7703
Areas of Interest: Two-phase Flow Experiments and Modeling, Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics.
Dr. Shoaib Usman
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
225 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4745
Areas of Interest: Radiation Transport, Radiation Protection, Radioactive Waste Management.
Joint Appointment Faculty
Dr. Muthanna Al-Dahhan
Curators' Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
110E Bertelsmeyer Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-7518
Areas of Interest: Reactor Engineering; Transport-Kinetic Integration; Advanced Measurement and Computational Techniques.
Dr. Joseph Smith
Professor in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
210C Bertelsmeyer Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4294
Areas of Interest: Hybrid Energy Systems, Fuels Combustion and Gasification, Industrial Gas Flare Design, Operation, and Regulation, Process Modeling, Monitoring, Control, and Operation.
Dr. Haiming Wen
Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
B45 McNutt Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-6167
Areas of Interest: Development and Fabrication of Advanced Materials such as Bulk Nanostructured Alloys, High Entropy Alloys and Bulk Metallic Glasses; Microstructure Characterization of Materials using Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography; Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Mechanisms of Materials; Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials Designed for Current and Next Generation Nuclear Reactors.
Nuclear Engineering Emeritus Professors
Dr. Arvind S. Kumar
Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Engineering
222 Fulton Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 201-3878
Areas of Interest: Nuclear Materials, Radiation Effects, Mechanical Properties.
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