Faculty Advisor
Professor Michael Tonks
Email: michael.tonks@ufl.edu
Website
Research Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Vishal Yadav, Research Scientist
Ph.D. from KE Leuven. Co-advises the group with Dr. Tonks.
Dr. Soumya Bandyopadhyay
Postdoc
Ph.D. from KE Leuven. Developing models of steel heat treatment in an applied magnetic field and the corrosion of structural alloys by molten salt.
Dr. Brandon Battas
Postdoc
Developing sintering models for UO2 and doped UO2. Started Fall 2019.
Dr. Jeremy Smith
Postdoc
Postdoctoral researcher, got his NE PhD from UF
Ph.D. Students
Xiaoyu Guan
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Developing tool for modeling radiation damage in electronic devices. Started Fall 2020.
Thompson Igunma
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Modeling the corrosion of structural alloys due to molten salt. Started Fall 2022.
Robert Clayton
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Developing models of cercer NTP fuel. Started Fall 2022.
Tanvir Sakib
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Started Fall 2023. Working on modeling fission gas behavior in UO2.
Yogesh Kumar
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Started Fall 2023. Investigating the behavior of UZr annular fuel.
Alhassan Issaka
PhD student
PhD student in MSE. Started Fall 2023. Investigating the mechanisms of irradiation induced grain subdivision
Apurba Roy
PhD student
ME PhD student working on multiscale modeling approaches
Kaylee Cunningham
PhD student
MSE PhD student working at LANL and researching fuel performance of advanced fuels.
Lamia Zubair
PhD student
NE PhD student, started in Fall 2025.
Group Alumni
| Name | Time in group | Current position |
| Lin Yang | 2019-2024 | Postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory |
| An Ta | 2021-2024 | Postdoc at Sandia Livermore National Laboratory |
| Ali Muntaha | 2018-2023 | Postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory |
| Sourav Chatterjee | 2021 – 2023 | Postdoc at Oxford University |
| Xueyang Bognarova | 2018 – 2022 | Postdoc at UC-Berkeley |
| Chaitanya Bhave | 2018 – 2022 | Staff Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory |
| Chris Lovenduski | 2020 – 2022 | Research Specialist at the University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics |
| Yi Wei | 2019 – 2021 | Applications Scientist at Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology |
| Marina Sessim | 2015 – 2021 | Staff scientist, QuantumScape |
| Dong-Uk Kim | 2018 – 2021 | Research faculty, Kookmin University, Korea |
| Vishal Vignesh | 2019 – 2021 | Staff scientist, Rustoleum |
| Pierre-Clement Simon | 2015 – 2021 | Staff scientist at Idaho National Laboratory |
| Shuaifang Zhang | 2015 – 2021 | Simulation Engineer at Microvast |
| Floyd Hilty | 2015 – 2020 | Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Jacob Hirschhorn | 2016 – 2020 | Staff scientist at Idaho National National Laboratory |
| Aashique Rezwan | 2015 – 2020 | Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratory |
| Amani Cheniour | 2016 – 2020 | Scientist at Michelin, France |
| Ian Greenquist | 2015 – 2019 | Nuclear fuels analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratory |