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Nuclear & Radiological Engineering - Faculty

Alireza Haghighat
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1986

Professor and Chairman
Director of UFTTG
Interim Director of FINDS

Particle transport methods and their applications, parallel computing, Monte Carlo methods, reactor physics, perturbation techniques, design of nondestructive interrogation systems for homeland security applications, simulation of nuclear reactors, radiation systems, and medical devices.
202-A NSC, (352) 392-1401 haghighat@ufl.edu
 
Samim Anghaie
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1982
Professor, Director of INSPI
Advanced nuclear energy systems, reactor design, thermal hydraulics, single- and multi-phase flow and heat transfer, and space nuclear power & propulsion.
207 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext: 307 anghaie@ufl.edu
 
James Edward Baciak, Jr.
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004
Assistant Professor
Radiation measurements, room temperature gamma-ray spectroscopy, radiation instrumentation, scintillation detectors, compound semiconductor materials, national security - nuclear nonproliferation, active and passive interrogation, gas detectors
232 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext 312 jimmer@ufl.edu
 
Wesley E. Bolch, P.E.
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1988
Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator, Health Physics Program Coordinator
Director of ALRADS
External and internal radiation dosimetry, computational medical physics, development of patient-specific anatomic models for organ dose assessment in radiology and radiation therapy, skeletal dosimetry, emergency response to radiological terrorism.
205 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext: 308 wbolch@ufl.edu
 
Rebecca Detwiler
Ph.D.,University of Notre Dame, 2001

Assistant Research Professor

Nuclear emergency response and nuclear nonproliferation, radiation detection, gamma spectroscopy, Monte-Carlo aerial and ground-based sensor modeling, and nuclear charged particle interactions.
232 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext: 315 rdetwiler@ufl.edu
 
Edward T. Dugan
Ph.D.,University of Florida, 1976

Associate Professor
Scatter X-ray Imaging (SXI)

Radiation transport, Monte Carlo analysis, reactor analysis and nuclear power plant dynamics and control, space nuclear power and propulsion, and radiographic imaging techniques applied to non- destructive examination.
237 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext: 309 edugan@ufl.edu
 
David R. Gilland
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989

Associate Professor
Emission Tomography

Medical imaging with emphasis on emission computed tomography, development of image acquisition and reconstruction methods, analysis of image quality applied to dynamic cardiac imaging and tumor imaging with high energy emitters.
205 Weil, (352) 846-3066 gilland@ufl.edu
 
David E. Hintenlang
Ph.D., Brown University, 1985
Associate Professor
Medical Physics Program Coordinator
Clinical medical physics applications of radiation imaging and dosimetry, techniques to accurately quantify and minimize pediatric, CT, and mammography doses and optimization of image quality.
204-A NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext: 311 dhinten@ufl.edu
 
Sanjiv S. Samant
Ph.D., university of Western Ontario, Canada, 1988
Associate Professor
Radiation therapy physic, megavolt x-ray imaging, detector design, medical image processing, Monte Carlo simulation, dosimetry.
232 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext:348 samant@ufl.edu
 
Glenn E. Sjoden, P.E.
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1997

Associate Professor Associate Director of UFTTG
Interim Associate Director of FINDS

Particle transport and numerical methods, nuclear systems analysis: medical, power generation, defense programs, NDT, and detection. Also convective heat transfer, computational fluids, and high performance computing applications.
220 NSC, (352) 392-1401 ext 323 sjoden@ufl.edu
 
William G. Vernetson
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1979
Associate Engineer and Director of UFTR
Reactor safety, power and non-power reactor operations and training, systems design and probabilistic safety assessment, criticality analysis, neutron activation analysis.
105 UFTR, (352) 392-1401 ext: 317 vernet@ufl.edu
 
 

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