Master’s Students

Tessa Maurer

Tessa Maurer

Master’s Student
B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan

Tessa joined DNNG in 2021. She currently leads the project investigating organic glass as a viable substitute for radioxenon detection.

Projects: Organic glass, Radioxenon monitoring

Alumni

Ms. Leah Clark

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2021

B.S. Physics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2019

Research Project: Organic Glass, Radioxenon Monitoring

Mr. Noah Kleedtke

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2020  

B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering at University of Michigan, USA, 2019  

Research Project: Genetic algorithms for multi-material shielding optimization applications

Ms. Elinor Mullin

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2020  

B.S. Physics at Fort Lewis College, USA, 2016  

Research Project: Handheld Dual-Particle Imager

Mr. Tyler Beames-Canivet

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2018

B.Sc. Engineering Physics at Queen’s University, CA, 2015

Research Project: Dual-Particle Imager

Mr. Steve Ward

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2014

B.S. in Mathematics at University of Utah, USA, 2007

Research Project: Neutron and gamma correlations in fission

Mr. Brian Wieger

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2013

B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2011

Research Project: Modeling FIGARO at LANL

Ms. Alicia Salazar

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2014

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Minor in Nuclear Energy at New Mexico State University, USA, 2012

Research Project: Nuclear Fuel Safeguards

Mr. William John Walsh

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2010

Research Project: Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Active Interrogation of Special Nuclear Materials.

Mr. Kiyotaka Ide

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2012

B.S.E. Applied Chemistry at the National Defense Academy, Japan, 2007

Mr. Kyle Weinfurther

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2012

Research Project: Monte Carlo simulations for Liquid Scintillators

Mr. Jack Linkous

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2012

B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, 2011

Research Project: Pulse Shape Discrimination, Organic Scintillator Post Processing Algorithms

Mr. Scott D. Ambers

Research & Development Engineer, University of California-Berkeley in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at The University of Michigan, USA, 2009

Upon graduation, Scott transitioned to UC-Berkeley working on simulation and data analysis of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) for safeguards applications.

Research Project: Pulse Shape Discrimination with Liquid Scintillation Detectors.

Mr. Ben A Maestas

Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2009

B.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico (UNM), USA, 2008

Research Project: Passive Gamma Detection at Standoff Distances

Mr. Tomasz Zak

Nuclear Engineer, Westinghouse

M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at The University of Michigan, USA, 2009

Research Project: Neutron Detection and Source Characterization through Matrix Inversion Methods