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Principal Investigator

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Raluca O. Scarlat

Assistant Professor

Mailing Address

921 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706

Contact

Phone: +1.608.890.4256

Email: raluca.scarlat@wisc.edu

Student Offices

921, 927, 918 Engineering Research Building
+1.608.890.3579
heatandmass@ep.wisc.edu

Graduate Students

Mohamed Abou Dbai | Ph.D. Student | aboudbai@wisc.edu | Natural circulation stability

Mohamed Abou Dbai

Ph.D. Student

Thermal-Hydraulics & Stability of Natural Circulation Systems in FHR

Contact

Email: aboudbai@wisc.edu

Kazi Ahmed | Ph.D. Student | NEUP Fellow | kkahmed@wisc.edu | TH system model development for freezing transients in FHR

Kazi Ahmed

NEUP Fellow

TH system model development for FHR safety

Contact

Email: kkahmed@wisc.edu

Francesco Carotti | Ph.D. Student | carotti@wisc.edu | electrochemistry of molten salts

Francesco Carotti

Ph.D. Student

Electrochemistry of Molten Salts

Contact

Email: carotti@wisc.edu

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Alexandra Delmore

Graduate Student

Contact

Email: ardelmore@wisc.edu

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Will Derdeyn

NRC Fellow

Molten Salt Spectroscopy

Contact

Email: wderdeyn@wisc.edu

Ricardo Vidrio | PhD Student |
vidrio.rv@gmail.com

Ricardo Vidrio

PhD Student

Research topics: Solidification of molten fluoride salts, including nucleation and glass behavior

Contact

Email: vidrio.rv@gmail.com

Huali Wu | Ph.D. Student | huali@wisc.edu | Tritium transport in fluoride salt and graphite

Huali Wu

PhD Student

Study of Tritium transport in FLibe-graphite system
Micro-structural characterization

Contact

Email: huali@wisc.edu

Undergraduate Students

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Allan Almeida

BS Student

Kyle | BS Nuclear Engineering | kanderson29@wisc.edu | Modelling Salt Freezing

Kyle Anderson

BS Student

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Allen Chen

BS Student

Graphite Characterization

FLiBe Intrusion Experiment

Contact

Email: allen.chen@wisc.edu

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Ben Chen

BS Student

Research topics: Static solidification and supercooling of molten salts

Contact

Email: chen548@wisc.edu

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Lewis Gross

BS Student

Contact

Email: ligross@wisc.edu

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Austin Laudenbach

BS Student

Contact

Email: alaudenbach@wisc.edu

Group Alumni

Loïc GALLET. loic.gallet@eleves.enpc.fr. Grad Intern Summer/Fall 2017: salt viscosity, and cover gas analysis. Currently a data science intern at Luckey Homes and will be joining University of Tokyo for a degree in Technology Management for Innovation.

Dr. Ruchi GAKHAR. Postdoctoral Scholar 2016-2017. Molten salt optical spectroscopy and calorimetry studies, and matrix graphite microstructural characterization. Currently at Idaho National Laboratory.

NISARG PATEL – MS Graduate 2017. Modeling of tritium transport in a PB-FHR graphitic fuel element.

LOUIS CHAPDELAINE – MS Graduate 2017. NEUP Fellow. Molten salt solidification experimental and computational studies, molten salt liquid density measurements.

MEREDY BRICHFORD – MS Graduate 2017. Modeling of tritium transport in an PB-FHR core.

MICHAEL YOUNG – MS Graduate 2015. NEUP Fellow. Modeling of tritium transport in graphite.

QUENTIN DESLOT – MS Research Intern.
ADRIEN HOGREL – MS Research Intern.
KEVIN VAN DUYSEN – Research Intern.

TALMAGE KEGLEY – BS student
RASHEED AUGUSTE – BS Research Intern, home institution: MIT.
NICHOLAS KIZEWSKI – BS Student
LUCAS ROGERS – BS Student
EISSA ALKINDI – BS Student
More alumni [https://heatandmass.ep.wisc.edu/staff-and-students]