NERS Group Members

NERS Group Members

Faculty

E-mail: lmwang@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-8530

Office Address:

Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

2355 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104

Lumin Wang is a Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Dr. Wang received a Diploma in Metallic Materials Engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1982 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984 and 1988, respectively.

After one year of post-doctoral research in the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Wang became a research scientist at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque in 1990. He was a senior research scientist and an associate research professor at UNM before he joined the faculty of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan (UM) as an associate research scientist in the summer of 1997. Now he is a Full Professor holding joint appointments in NERS and MSE, and he is the director of the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL).

Graduate Students

Tianhua Ding

E-mail: dingt@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 936-3129
Room: 2940 Cooley

Tianhua is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.

Pantip Ampornrat

E-mail: pantipam@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 936-0266
Room: 2940 Cooley

Pantip is a third year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. She received her B.S. in Physics from Mahidol University, Thailand and M. Eng. in Nuclear Technology from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Pantip’s research is focused on the oxidation mechanism of ferritic-martensitic alloys as the structural materials for Gen IV nuclear reactors.

Qiangmin Wei

E-mail: qwei@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-9635
Room: 2076 Dow

Qiangmin is a third year graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his B.S. in Materials Science from the University of Wuhan Technology in China.

Qiangmin is currently working on self-organized patterns induced by ion beam.

Weixing Li

E-mail: wxli@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 763-4626
Room: 2934 Cooley

Weixing is a second year graduate student in the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Beijing University of Science and Technology in China in 2000 and 2003, respectively.

Weixing is currently working on the formation of fission tracks and electron beam irradiation effects on apatite structures.

Niravun (Por) Pavenayotin

E-mail: niravun@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 846-9206
Room: 2940 Cooley

Niravun, who prefers to go by her nickname "Por", is originally from Bangkok, Thailand. She is a second year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. She received her B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Brown University in 2005.

Por's research focuses on nanoparticles and nanostructures in the environment and their surface/interface energies.

Alejandro (Alex) Perez-Bergquist

E-mail: alexpb@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 565-4978
Room: 2940 Cooley

Alex is a second year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.

Alex is currently working on ion-beam induced photoluminescent silicon nanofibers.

Elaine A. West

E-mail: eawest@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 936-0266
Room: 2940 Cooley

Elaine is a second year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. She received her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2005.

Elaine will be studying the irradiation creep behavior of pyrolytic carbon used in TRISO fuel particles for the very high temperature reactor (VHTR) Gen IV reactor concept.

Michaela Flak

E-mail: mflak@umich.edu
Telephone:
Room: 2940 Cooley

Michaela is a first year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California Berkeley in 2006.

Michaela is interested in nuclear waste management with her specific project TBD.

Visiting Scholars

Professor Kun-Dar Li

E-mail: kundar@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-8529
Room: 2958B Cooley

Kundar Li is a visiting scholar in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2003.

Kundar has previously held Research Engineering positions at Thin-Tech Materials Technology Company in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and at China Steel Corporation. Since 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at Hsing-Kuo University, Taiwan.

Kundar is currently working on process technology and simulations in materials.

Dr. Haiyan Xiao

E-mail: xhaiyan@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-8529
Room: 2958 Cooley

Haiyan Xiao is a visiting research scientist in the Department of Material Science and Engineering. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from Sichuan University of China. Since July 2004, she she has worked at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Haiyan's current research involves first principles investigations of solid materials, total energy calculations of high pressure induced phase transitions of solid materials, and molecular dynamics simulations of thin film growth.

Professor Rongsheng Zhou

E-mail: rszhou@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-8529
Room: 2958 Cooley

Rongsheng Zhou is a visiting research scientist in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the Nuclear Power Institute of China in 2002. Since 2004, Rongsheng has been an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China.

Rongsheng is currently working on supercritical water (SCRW) and very high temperature reactor (VHTR) materials.

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