People
Science is people

Katy Huff
Associate Professor
Katy is the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in the United States Department of Energy.

Madicken Munk
Research Scientist
Madicken is acting the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois.

Samuel Dotson
Graduate Research Assistant
Sam works on grid-scale energy system modeling and optimization methods with a focus on nuclear energy and its implications for energy justice.

Oleksandr Yardas
Graduate Research Assistant
Olek is a graduate student interested in passive safety and operations, microreactors, and decentralized power generation. He is still trying to figure out how to integrate these interests into a viable career.

Samar Abdelkawy
Graduate Research Assistant
Samar is a PhD student interested in advanced reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle.

Ceser Zambrano
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ceser is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the usage of simulations for reactor cores.

Rhys MacMillan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Rhys is an undergraduate in NPRE. He is interested in understanding the global fuel cycle.

Owen Strong
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Owen is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC interested in modeling and simulation of nuclear power systems, especially Molten Salt Reactors