PhD Students

Nathan Giha

Nathan Giha

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan

Nathan joined DNNG in Summer 2016 as a CVT Undergraduate Research Fellow, developing custom silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) readout electronics for application in a handheld dual-particle imager. In Fall of 2019, Nathan continued with the group as a Ph. D. student. His graduate research focuses on angular momentum-energy correlations in nuclear fission.

Projects: Nuclear Fission
Juliann Lamproe

Juliann Lamproe

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
B.S. Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University

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 Lopez

Ricardo Lopez

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan

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

Flynn Darby

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
B.S.E. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan

Flynn joined DNNG in the Winter of 2020. He completed his masters degree with a focus on Rossi-alpha measurements analysis for subcritical, reflected assemblies. His current research focuses on applying and refining fast neutron multiplicity counting techniques to measurements of kilogram-scale subcritical assemblies.

Projects: Fast neutron multiplicity counting, neutron noise, nuclear safeguards
Schuyler Tyler

Schuyler Tyler

Ph.D. Pre-Candidate
B.S. Nuclear Engineering at University of New Mexico

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

Ph.D. Pre-Candidate
B.S. Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Technical Institute

Ethan Schneider

Ph.D. Pre-Candidate
B.S. Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio