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Nuclear Engineering Faculty

Dr. Anil Prinja
Professor
Associate Chair
Ph: (505) 277-4600
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: prinja@unm.edu
Webpage
Research Interests:
  • Modeling, Analysis, and Numerical Techniques for Charged and Neutral Particle Radiation Transport, with Applications to Reactor Physics, Medical Physics, and National Security
  • Closure and Closure-Free Methods in Stochastic Transport Theory
Dr. Cassiano de Oliveira
Professor
Ph: (505) 277-5661
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: cassiano@unm.edu
Research Interests:
  • Applied Computational Radiation Modeling
  • Nuclear Reactor Physics
  • High Proformance Computing
  • Advanced Numerical Solution Methods
  • Multiphysics Simulations
  • Optimization and Data Assimilation
Dr. Mohamed El-Genk
Regents Professor
Ph: (505) 277-5442
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: mgenk@unm.edu
Webpage
Research Interests:
  • Space Power
  • Thermal-Hydraulics
  • Gas Cooled Reactors
  • Energy Conversion
  • Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Fuel and Materials
  • Advanced cooling of Electronic, Boiling and Micro-channel flow
  • Neutronics and CFD Analysis
  • Space Radiation

Dr. Philip H. Heintz
Professor
Ph: (505) 272-3402
Email: pheintz@salud.unm.edu
Webpage

Research Interests:

  • Diagnostic X-Ray
  • Radiological Physics
  • Treatment Planning Design
  • Ultrasound Imaging
  • Diagnostic Radiology QA
Dr. Norman Roderick
Faculty Emeritus
Ph: (505) 277-2209
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: roderick@unm.edu
Webpage
Research Interests:
  • Plamsa Physics and Applications
  • Inertial confinement and magnetized target fusion
  • High energy density physics
Dr. Gary Cooper
Associate Professor
Ph: (505) 277-2557
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: garywc@unm.edu
Research Interests:
  • Development of neutron and gamma-ray detection techniques for measurement the properties of fusing plasmas
  • Radiation detection techniques for measurement of nuclear materials
Dr. Taro Ueki
Associate Professor
Ph: (505) 277-7964
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: tueki@unm.edu
Webpage
Research Interests:
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • Computational radiation transport and reactor physics, time series analysis
  • Application of information theory
Dr. Adam Hecht
Assistant Professor
Ph: (505) 277-1654
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: hecht@unm.edu
Webpage
Particle Therapy Group
Research Interests:
  • Radiation Detectors and Techniques
  • Medical Physics and Nuclear Nonproliferation
  • Ion Beam Radiotherapy
  • Novel Accelerator Designs, Techniques, and Applications
Dr. Robert Busch
Lecturer III
Ph: (505) 277-8027
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: busch@unm.edu
Webpage
Research Interests:
  • Nuclear Criticality Safety, Fission Reactor Parameters and Kinetics
  • Radiation Protection and Environmental Measurements
  • NonProliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Dr. Ed Arthur
Research Professor
Ph: (505) 277-7952
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: earthur@unm.edu
Dr. Patrick McDaniel
Research Professor
Ph: (505) 277-4950
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: mcdaniep@unm.edu
Webpage

Research Interests:

 

  • Radiation Transport
  • Reactor Kinetics & Controls
  • Artificial Trapped Electrons in Space
  • Triggered Isomers
  • Low Engery NE Reactors

 

Dr. Jean-Michel Tournier
Research Assistant Professor
Ph: (505) 277-7961
Fx: (505) 277-5433
Email: tournier@unm.edu