PhD Students

Juliann graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and a certificate in Safety Engineering in Spring 2020. She joined the DNNG in Fall 2020. During her undergraduate studies, she spent multiple summers working with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is where her current research began. Currently, she works as a full time engineer at LANL while continuing her research improving nuclear data sensitivity capabilities for neutron noise measurements.

Projects: Neutron noise measurement simulated nuclear data sensitivities

Ricardo graduated from the University of Michigan in 2020 with a B.S.E in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and then joined the DNNG in the Fall of 2020 while pursuing a master’s degree. In the Fall of 2021, he continued with the DNNG as a Ph.D. student. His current research interests include organic scintillators and nuclear safeguards. His graduate research focuses on particle imaging for nonproliferation applications.

Projects: Handheld dual particle imager

Flynn Darby is a Ph. D. candidate who has been working with Professor Pozzi’s Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group throughout his master’s and Ph.D. work. His research focuses on the quantification of fission chain kinetics through radiation measurements.

Schuyler graduated from the University of New Mexico in the spring of 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering. He joined the DNNG in the Fall of 2023. His current interests include organic scintillators after completing an internship at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the summer of 2022. This interest was pointed in the direction of safeguard applications after completing an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the summer of 2023.

Caryanne Wilson is a second year PhD student at the University of Michigan in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences researching under Prof. Sara Pozzi and Prof. Igor Jovanovic. She completed her Bachelor’s of Science in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering in May of 2023 at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently focused on improving active interrogation techniques for detection of SNM, narcotics, and explosives.

Ethan graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a bachelor’s degree in Physics. He joined the DNNG group in fall of 2024. He works primarily in neutron multiplicity measurements and scintillator characterization. He also works with characterization of organic glass scintillators.

William graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a bachelors in Chemical Engineering. He started a Ph.D. program at University of Michigan in 2023 and joined the DNNG group the summer of 2024.
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate and is working onsite at the University of Michigan campus.

Projects: Hand-Held Dual Particle Imaging System

Erin graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Emory University and her master’s degree from Fisk University, both in Physics. While her master’s work focused on inorganic scintillators and preventing hygroscopic damage, she joined DNNG in Winter 2024 to work on organic scintillators. Her current research interests include organic glass fabrication and shaping, effects of doping with high-Z inorganics, and memory effects of radioxenon with an eye for monitoring underground nuclear explosions.

Annamaria is a 1st year PhD Pre-Candidate with a Master’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. She joined the DNNG in Fall 2024 and has been collaborating with Los Alamos National Lab since July 2024. Her research focuses on the simulation of neutron leakage spectra using MCNP, contributing to the exploration of a new MCNP fixed source sensitivity calculation features.