Alumni
Previous members of the ARFC research group, and where they are now.

Alex Lindsay
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex was a postdoctoral researcher with ARFC. He is dedicated to a reasonable marriage between openness and nuclear energy research. He is now a staff scientist at INL.

Andrei Rykhlevskii
Graduate Research Assistant
Andrei was a Research Assistant with ARFC focusing on fuel depletion calculations for Molten Salt Reactors. He received M.Sc. in 2018 and Ph.D in 2020. He is now a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Amanda Bachmann
Graduate Research Assistant
Amanda was a PhD student working on fuel cycle modeling. She received her PhD in 2023, and is now a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory.

Lu Kissinger
Graduate Research Assistant
Lu is a Masters student using Monte Carlo codes to investigate the feasibility of Lunar Surface Fission Power. They also worked on reactor modeling projects with ARFC as an undergraduate and at Argonne post-bachelor's

Gavin Ridley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gavin Ridley was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He is an undergraduate at UTK looking to help molten salt reactors come to fruition through HPC.

Snehal Chandan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Snehal Chandan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she was an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.

Eric Riewski
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Eric Riewski was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He later attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madiscon.

Yukun Tan
NCSA SPIN intern
Yukun Tan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she pursued her undergraduate degree in CS at the University of Illinois.

Adam Pichman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Adam received his undergraduate degree in 2019 and accepted a job at Epic Systems in Madison, WI

Brad Ellis
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Brad was an undergraduate researcher interested in fuel cycle analysis and repository simulation.

Tyler Kennelly
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tyler was an undergraduate research interested in nuclear reactor physics computation. He is now pursuing a graduate degree.

Matthew Koziol
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Matthew was an undergraduate research with ARFC, interested in nuclear physics computation and data science.

Mitchell Whalen
Technical Editor
Mitchell is a nuclear engineering undergraduate interested in spent fuel management.

Sonata Valaitis
Graduate Research Assistant
Sonata is a graduate student interested in fuel cycle simulations and fusion edge plasmas.

Eleonora Skrzypek
Visiting Scholar
Eleonora was a graduate student from Warsaw University of Technology from Poland who visited us for one semester before returning.

Mark Kamuda
Graduate Research Assistant
Mark Kamuda was the first PhD student to graduate from the ARFC group. Upon graduation, he joined Applied Research Analytics in North Carolina as a Data Scientist.

Matt Kozak
Technical Editor
Matt worked as an undergraduate researcher with ARFC and joined Exelon upon graduation.

Kip Kleimenhagen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kip was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC, he's currently pursuing his master’s degree in nuclear engineering.

Amber Hunter
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Amber was an Undergraduate in NPRE interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.

Anna Balla
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anna was an NPRE undergraduate working on advanced reactor deployment efforts and video production for graduate reactor theory curriculum.