Affiliate Faculty

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Bryan Bednarz


Assistant Professor

Contact: bbednarz2@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5225

Research interests: Monte Carlo method, Proton therapy, Radiation protection

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Medical Physics


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Vicki Bier


Professor Emeritus

Contact: bier@engr.wisc.edu

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Research interests: Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products, critical infrastructure protection, security, technology hazards, risk analysis, decision analysis, operations research

Other affiliations: Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis


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Cary Forest


Professor


 

Adjunct Professors

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Jan Coenen


Adjunct Professor

Contact: jcoenen2@wisc.edu

Research interests: Materials Research for FusionRadiation Resistant Materials, High HeatFlux Materials, Tungsten Fibre reinforced Tungsten, Self-passivating alloys, Liquid Metal Walls for fusion, Wendelstein 7-XJ...

Courses: Click to see my courses


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Scott Grutzik


Adjunct Professor

Contact: grutzik@wisc.edu

Research interests: Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, statistical strength methods, glassy materials, and viscoelasticity.


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Ken Petersen


Adjunct Professor


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Patrick Shriwise


Adjunct Professor

Contact: shriwise@wisc.edu

Research interests: Nuclear engineering, Computational geometry, Mesh-based geometry, Ray tracing, Particle transport, High-performance scientific computing, Applied mathematics


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Timothy J. Tautges


Adjunct Professor

Contact: tautges@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-8485

Courses: Click to see my courses


 

Teaching Faculty

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Laura Bartol


Associate Faculty Associate


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Scott Williams


Assistant Faculty Associate


 

Emeritus Faculty

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James Blanchard


Professor Emeritus

Contact: jake.blanchard@wisc.edu

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs

Research interests: Thermomechanical design for high heat fluxes, fusion technology, radiation damage, nuclear microbatteries

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Institute for Nuclear Energy Systems


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James Callen


Professor Emeritus

Contact: callen@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1370

Research interests: Controlled thermonuclear fusion, theoretical and computational plasma physics, magnetic confinement of plasmas, nuclear fission

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Pegasus Plasma Experiment


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Michael Corradini


Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Contact: mlcorrad@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1648

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Research interests: Multi-phase fluid mechanics and heat transfer, fission and fusion reactors, nuclear reactor safety, severe accident phenomena, power plant operation and design, energy policy, nuclear fuel cycle

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Wisconsin Shock Tube


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Raymond J. Fonck


Professor Emeritus

Contact: rjfonck@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7799

Research interests: Plasma & fusion science and technology, plasma turbulence, burning plasmas, tokamaks, alternative fusion schemes, atomic physics and applied optics, high temperature plasma diagnostics

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Pegasus Plasma Experiment


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Douglass Henderson


Harvey D. Spangler Professor

Contact: henderson@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0808

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Reactor physics, radiation transport, fusion reactor technology, nuclear waste

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Medical Physics


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Gerald Kulcinski


Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering-Emeritus, Director, Fusion Technology In

Contact: glkulcin@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1601

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Magnetic/inertial fusion reactor systems studies, Radiation damage and nuclear materials, Near term applications of fusion energy, Lunar mining of helium-3

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering


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Gregory Moses


Spangler Professor Emeritus

Contact: gregory.moses@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6567

Research interests: Nuclear reactor physics, computational engr., radiation hydrodynamics, technology enhanced learning, fusion reactor design

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering


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Michael Plesha


Professor Emeritus

Contact: plesha@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5741

Also: Geological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Finite element analysis, discrete element analysis, dynamics of geologic media, constitutive modeling of geologic discontinuity behavior, soil structure interaction modeling, continuum modeling of jointed satur...

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Carl Sovinec


Professor Emeritus

Contact: csovinec@wisc.edu

Research interests: Computational plasma physics--magnetohydrodynamics--numerical methods for partial differential equations


 

 

Department Administrators

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Dina Christenson


Department Administrator

Contact: dina.christenson@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5966


 

Staff

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Ally Counts


Research Administrator

Contact: acounts@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2352


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Eva Davenport


Office Manager

Contact: egray2@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1646


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Sara Hladilek (she/her)


Senior Student Services Coordinator - Graduate Student Services


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Eric Kula


Research Administrator

Contact: ewkula@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2196


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Jesse Prochaska


Accountant

Contact: jjprocha@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3580


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Lili Sarajian


Communications Specialist

Contact: lsarajian@wisc.edu, (262) 409-6736


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Amy Terpening


Administrative Manager

Contact: amy.terpening@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4279



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Katherine Wegner


Financial Specialist Senior

Contact: wegner@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-8142


 

Technical Staff

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Aaron Bader


Assistant Scientist

Contact: abader@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5808

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Edge plasmas, specifically in 3D geometries, Stellarator optimization.


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Tim Bohm


Senior Scientist

Contact: tim.bohm@wisc.edu, (608) 262-9312

Other affiliations: Medical Physics


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Michael Bongard


Senior Scientist

Contact: mbongard@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4854

Research interests: Plasma and Fusion Science and Technology, Tokamaks / Spherical Tokamaks, Plasma Heating and Current Drive Techniques, Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability, Real-time and Plasma Control Systems, Power E...


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Michael Borchardt


Sr Instrument Tech


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Paul Brooks


Instrument Technician

Contact: pwbrooks@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4447


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Barret Elward


Associate Instrument Tech

Contact: elward@wisc.edu


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Benjamin Faber


Research Scientist


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Heinke Frerichs


Associate Scientist


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John Goetz


Senior Scientist

Contact: jgoetz@wisc.edu


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Edward Hinson


Assistant Scientist


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Jessica Hoffman


Assistant Instrumentation Innovator


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Seth Jones


Instrument Maker-Entr


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Taeho Kim


Assistant Scientist


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Benjamin Knowles


Instrumentation Technologist


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Kim Kriewaldt


Associate Instrument Technician

Contact: kriewald@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5194


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Benjamin A. Kujak-Ford


Research Specialist, Plasma

Contact: baford@wisc.edu, (608) 263-8570


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Benjamin Lewicki


Associate Instrument Specialist

Contact: lewicki@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-7278


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George R Mckee


Senior Scientist

Contact: george.mckee@wisc.edu, (858) 455-2419

Also: College of Engineering

Research interests: Turbulence and Transport in Magnetically Confined PlasmasFusion EnergyOptical Spectroscopy, Atomic Physics


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Mark Nornberg


Associate Scientist


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Joshua Reusch


Assistant Scientist

Contact: jareusch@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8409


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David Smith


Senior Scientist

Contact: david.smith@wisc.edu, (609) 243-3514


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Aaron Sontag


Associate Scientist


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George Tryfonos


Mechanical Instrumentation Technologist


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Rex Wagner


HSX Operations Director/Instrumentation Engineer II


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Gregory Winz


Instrtumentation Technologist

Contact: winz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3326


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Zheng Yan


Associate Scientist

Contact: zyan5@wisc.edu, (858) 455-4513

Research interests: Turbulence and transport in magnetically confined plasmasOptical spectroscopy 


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Hwasung Yeom


Associate Scientist

Contact: hyeom@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2760

Also: College of Engineering

Research interests: - Surface Engineering Technologies for Metallic Materials for Extreme Environments- Solid-state, Powder-based Manufacturing for Nuclear Applications- Neutron / Ion Irradiation and Material Characterization Tech...


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Ping Zhu


Scientist II

Contact: pzhu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1370