Diversity and Inclusion
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Principal Investigator
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
Thermal-Hydraulics & Stability of Natural Circulation Systems in FHR
Contact
Email: aboudbai@wisc.edu
Kazi Ahmed
NEUP Fellow
TH system model development for FHR safety
Contact
Email: kkahmed@wisc.edu
Francesco Carotti
Ph.D. Student
Electrochemistry of Molten Salts
Contact
Email: carotti@wisc.edu
Alexandra Delmore
Graduate Student
Contact
Email: ardelmore@wisc.edu
Will Derdeyn
NRC Fellow
Molten Salt Spectroscopy
Contact
Email: wderdeyn@wisc.edu
Ricardo Vidrio
PhD Student
Research topics: Solidification of molten fluoride salts, including nucleation and glass behavior
Contact
Email: vidrio.rv@gmail.com
Huali Wu
PhD Student
Study of Tritium transport in FLibe-graphite system
Micro-structural characterization
Contact
Email: huali@wisc.edu
Undergraduate Students
Allan Almeida
BS Student
Kyle Anderson
BS Student
Allen Chen
BS Student
Graphite Characterization
FLiBe Intrusion Experiment
Contact
Email: allen.chen@wisc.edu
Ben Chen
BS Student
Research topics: Static solidification and supercooling of molten salts
Contact
Email: chen548@wisc.edu
Lewis Gross
BS Student
Contact
Email: ligross@wisc.edu
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]