NSI Membership List
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: mladams@tamu.edu
Research interests include computational science and engineering.
Relevant centers include CLASS and NSSPI.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: burns.jon@tamu.edu
Research interests include radiochemistry and actinide chemistry.
Relevant centers include the Science center.
Has received DOE grants.
Publications include:
- "Recovery of oxidized actinides, Np(VI), Pu(VI), and Am(VI), from co-crystallized uranyl nitrate hexahydrate: a single technology approach to used nuclear fuel recycling"
- "Coordination of the bismuthate anion to alkali, alkaline earth, lanthanide, and actinide metals in nitric acid systems"
- "Solid state characterization of oxidized actinides encapsulated in co-crystallized uranyl nitrate hexahydrate"
- "Effects of annealing on fission fragment release from electrodeposited Cf-252 thin-films"
- "Kinetics of ion exchange of Zr/Sn(IV) phosphonate-phosphate hybrid materials for separation of lanthanides from oxidized actinides"
Interdisciplinary work at Texas A&M on At-211 Production from 2019 to current; on the Sigma Team for Advance Actinide Recycle, Fuel Cycle Research and Development program with the Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy from 2014 to 2018; worked on research and development for the production of thin film high activity fission fragment sources for Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) for Argonne National Lab’s ATLAS Accelerator from 2015 to 2016; and worked on the Plutonium-238 Production Project from 2014 to 2016.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: sunilsc@tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear security and nonproliferation.
Relevant centers include the TAMU-TEES Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI).
Has received DOE-NNSA and USDOS grants.
Publications include:
- "Nuclear fuel reprocessing: Can pyro-processing reduce nuclear proliferation risk?"
- "MAPPS: A Stochastic Computational Tool for Multi-path Analysis of Physical Protection Systems"
- "Information Driven Safeguards Approach for Remote Monitoring System of Dry Cask Storage"
- "Analysis of the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Capabilities by Estimating Its Highly Enriched Uranium Stockpile and Natural Uranium Reserves"
- "Experimental Validation of a Nuclear Forensics Methodology for Source Reactor-Type Discrimination of Chemically Separated Plutonium"
Has done interdisciplinary research projects with Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute, Political Science Department, Nuclear Engineering Department, the George Bush School of Government and Public Service.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: sdewji@tamu.edu
Research interests include radiation protection, dosimetry, detection, and safeguards.
Relevant centers include the TAMU-TEES Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI).
Publications include:
- Estimation of External Contamination and Exposure Rates Due to Fission Product Release
- Organ and detriment-weighted dose rate coefficients for exposure to radionuclide-contaminated soil considering body morphometries that differ from reference conditions: adults and children
- Age-dependent comparison of monoenergetic photon organ and effective dose coefficients for pediatric stylized and voxel phantoms submerged in air
- Validation of gamma-ray detection techniques for safeguards monitoring at natural uranium conversion facilities
- Assessing internal contamination after the detonation of a radiological dispersion device using a 2×2-inch sodium iodide detector
Has 9 years of research experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Nuclear Security Modeling Group, Safeguards and Security Technology Group, and Center for Radiation Protection Knowledge; and has worked with TAMU Faculty Fellow: NSSPI.
Department: Chemistry
Email: Folden@comp.tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear chemistry, radiochemistry, and nuclear forensics.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: pfulvio@tamu.edu
Research interests include materials chemistry and physics.
Publications include:
- "Carbon Black Reborn: Structure and Chemistry for Renewable Energy Harnessing"
- "A New Class of Type III Porous Liquids: A Promising Platform for Rational Adjustment of Gas Sorption Behavior"
- "Solid-State Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts via a Mechanochemical Assembly Through Coordination Cross-linking"
- "Hierarchical Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids: Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis"
- "Acid-Functionalized Mesoporous Carbon: An Efficient Support for Ruthenium-Catalyzed γ-Valerolactone Production"
Involved in bringing center funding during previous job, advised undergraduate and graduate students working on materials chemistry applied to energy storage, carbon capture, and biomedical applications. At TAMU: co-mentoring students in biomedical uses of porous composite materials, radiation detection and working to reactivate a Van de Graaff generator in BIOAG.
Department: Chemistry
Email: francois@tamu.edu
Research interests include inorganic chemistry.
Has received NSF and Welch Foundation grants.
Publications include:
- "Radiofluorination of a NHC-PF5 adduct: toward new probes for 18F PET imaging"
- "Preparation of [18F]-NHC-BF3 conjugates and their applications in PET imaging"
- "[18F]-NHC-BF3 adducts as water stable radio-prosthetic groups for PET imaging"
- "Lewis Acid-Assisted Isotopic 18F-19F Exchange in BODIPY Dyes: Facile Generation of Positron Emission Tomography/Fluorescence Dual Modality Agents for Tumor Imaging"
- "Harvesting [18F]-fluoride ions in water via direct 18F-19F isotopic exchange: Radiofluorination of zwitterionic aryltrifluoroborates and in vivo stability studies"
Interdisciplinary work includes the development of RDF proposals, and submission of joint NSF and NIH grants (no center grants).
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Email: cggroup@comp.tamu.edu
Research interests include experimental nuclear physics.
Relevant institutions include the Cyclotron Institute.
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Email: holt@physics.tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear theory.
Relevant institutions include the Cyclotron Institute.
Has received NSF PHY, and DOE-DE NA grants.
Publications include:
- "Proton elastic scattering on calcium isotopes form chiral nuclear optical potentials"
- "Predicting the moment of inertia of pulsar J0737-3039A from Bayesian modeling of the nuclear equation of state"
- "Neutron Star Tidal Deformabilities Constrained by Nuclear Theory and Experiment"
- "Hot and dene homogenous nucleonic matter constrained by observations, experiment, and theory"
- "Structure of neutron star crusts from new Skyrme effective interactions constrained by chiral effective field theory"
Collaborates with members of the Statistics Department at Texas A&M on Bayesian analysis.
Department: Mathematics
Email: kuchment@math.tamu.edu
Research interests include inverse problems with applications to medical nuclear imaging and homeland security.
Relevant centers and institutions include CENTAUR, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, and the Institute of Data Science.
Has received NSF grants.
Publications include:
- monographs on medical imaging, quantum graphs with applications, and partial differential equations
Has joint research with Nuclear Engineering, Cyclotron Institute, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistics Departments.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: marianno@tamu.edu
Research interests include radiation detection, emergency response, and nuclear security.
Has received NNSA grants.
Publications include:
- "Case Report: PET Imaging of Dog Exposed to Artificially Created Search and Rescue Set-up Contaminated with FDG"
- "A strategic Analysis of Stationary Radiation Portal Monitors and Mobile Detection Systems in Border Monitoring"
- "Modeling MDA Minimum Detectable Activity as a Function of Detector Speed"
- "Preliminary Dose Assessment for an Emergency Response Exercise at Disaster City® Using Unsealed Radioactive Contamination"
- "Measurement and Analysis of the Extreme Physical Shock Environment Experienced by Crane-Mounted Radiation Detection Systems"
Has had active research projects with Animal Science, Veterinary medicine, the Bush School, CSEN and ECEN.
Department: Cyclotron Institute
Email: lheilborn@comp.tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear chemistry.
Department: Chemistry
Email: nippe@tamu.edu
Research interests include inorganic chemistry.
Department: Nuclear Engineering
Email: shikhap@tamu.edu
Research interests include neutron detection.
Relevant centers include the TAMU-TEES Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI).
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Email: rogachev@tamu.edu
Research interests include low energy nuclear physics and astrophysics.
Department: International Affairs
Email: alross@tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear weapons policy, strategy, and forces.
Relevant institutions includes the Energy Institute.
Relevant centers and institutions include the Center for Grand Strategy, and the Institute for Science, Technology & Public Policy.
Has received DTRA, LANL, LLNL, and SNL grants.
Department: Chemistry
Email: e-schweikert@tamu.edu
Research interests include nanoscale mass spectrometry, methodologies and instrument innovation for nano-analysis.
Relevant centers include the Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis.
Has received a NIH R01 grant.
Publications include:
Collaborations with A. Revzin, Mayo Clinic; S. Della-Negra, Nuclear Physics Institute Orsay; and K. Wooley, Texas A&M.
Department: Cyclotron Institute
Email: s-shlomo@tamu.edu
Research interests include theoretical nuclear physics.
Publications include:
- "Energy Density Functional and Sensitivity of of Energies of Giant Resonances to Bulk Nuclear Matter Properties"
- "Giant Resonances in 40,48Ca, 68Ni, 116Sn, 144Sm and 208Pb"
- "Self-consistent Field approach to the Statistical Level Density in Spherical Nuclei"
- "On Unitarity of The Particle-Hole Dispersive Optical Potential"
- "A Novel Method for Determining the Mean-Field Directly from the Single -Particle Matter Density"
Department: Cyclotron Institute
Email: etereshatov@tamu.edu
Research interests include radiochemistry.
Publications include:
- "Hydrophobic polymerized ionic liquids for trace metal solid phase extraction: thallium transfer from hydrochloric acid media"
- "First Evidence of Metal Transfer into Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic and Low-Transition-Temperature Mixtures: Indium Extraction from Hydrochloric and Oxalic Acids"
- "Thallium Transfer from Hydrochloric Acid Media into Pure Ionic Liquids"
- "Resin Ion Exchange and Liquid-Liquid Extraction of Indium and Thallium from Chloride Media"
Department: Chemistry
Email: bryan.tomlin@chem.tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear analytical and activation analysis.
Relevant centers and institutions include the CCCA, and Texas A&M Energy Institute.
Publications include:
- "Solvent‐Free Synthesis of Nano Zirconium Phenylphosphonates with Molten Phenylphosphonic Acid"
- "Neutron activation analysis with pre- and post-irradiation chemical separation for the value assignments of Al, V, and Ni in the new bovine liver SRM 1577c"
- "Challenges and successes in the use of neutron activation analysis procedures for value assignment of animal serum and bovine liver Standard Reference Materials"
- "Determination of elements in SRM soil 2709a by neutron activation analysis"
- "Combinatorial study of thin film metal hydride by prompt gamma activation analysis"
Department: Chemistry
Email: yennello@comp.tamu.edu
Research interests include nuclear reactions and isotope production.
Relevant institutions include the Cyclotron Institute.