The American Nuclear Society Chapter at UF is dedicated to providing professional development to students and promoting discussions of nuclear sciences and technology through student and faculty involvement. Let’s meet the 2023-2024 E-Board!
2023-2024 Executive Board
President
mark
Mark is a third-year nuclear engineering student and has worked as a reactor operator trainee at UFTR as well as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Florida. His interests lie in the role nuclear can play alongside renewables to supply clean, reliable, and safe energy. Mark is passionate about outreach and communicating to the public about all the benefits nuclear serves within the community. Mark has served as BEC representative and External VP for ANS. Mark has also served as a student chapter liaison for the Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s UF chapter. This past summer Mark worked as an intern for Southern Nuclear at Plant Hatch. Mark is excited for the year ahead and hopes to showcase all the good nuclear can do.
Vice President of External Affairs
Brian
Brian is a former nuclear operator who spent eight years aboard submarines in the US Navy and is now a junior working on his undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering. He has a personal passion for open-source computing, music making, and homemade coffee. His research interests include uncertainty quantification for pre-neutron fission fragments and X-ray back-scatter imaging.
Vice President of Internal Affairs
Alex
Alex is a junior nuclear engineering student at the University of Florida. He is currently working as a teaching assistant for COP2273 Python Programming for Engineers and enjoys writing code. Alex is interested in reactor design and wants to work for a national laboratory post-graduation. He also plans to get his PhD and become a reactor operator.
Treasurer
Kervin
Kervin is a senior nuclear engineering student on the project management track at UF. This is his fourth year as an ANS E-board member. Kervin is interested in nonproliferation and nuclear policy. He is currently studying the “Impact of Russian War in Ukraine on Global Nuclear Governance” through the NEREC Summer Fellows program in South Korea and works as the project manager for NAYGN’s Delivery Team for the 13th Climate Energy Ministerial.
Secretary
Maxwell
Maxwell is a senior in the undergraduate nuclear engineering program at the University of Florida. This is his second year as an ANS officer. Maxwell is enthusiastic about clean energy and interested in radiation protection, nuclear policy, and reactor design. He has interned with Urenco USA, the only operating commercial uranium enrichment facility in the United States, and plans to pursue a career in the nuclear industry post-graduation.
Governor at Large
Ginger
Ginger is a second-year Ph.D. student and a Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards (NNIS) fellow. Ginger previously served as the chapter’s Social Media Chair from 2021 to 2023. Her research interests include novel material control and accountancy techniques through real-time, unattended assay and monitoring systems. Ginger is passionate about dispelling radiophobia through communicating nuclear science to the public in ways that are digestible, accessible, and (hopefully) entertaining.
Governor at Large
Juan
Juan is a 4th-year nuclear engineering student at the University of Florida. He serves as one of the Governors of ANS UF and has previously served as Secretary and BEC Representative. Juan intends to continue his education in graduate studies, focusing on the nuclear engineering aspect of fusion energy. He has participated in fusion research experiences at UF with Dr. Christopher McDevitt and at General Atomics via the US Dept. of Energy’s SULI program.
Governor at Large
Tyler
Tyler is a first-year Ph.D. student and is interested in a career focused on machine learning applications in fusion energy. Tyler has interned with Los Alamos National Laboratory and has experience with coding languages such as Python, MCNP, Slurm, and Serpent.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Justin Watson
Dr. Justin Watson joined the Nuclear Engineering Program at UF in September 2018. Prior to joining UF in the Fall of 2018, he was Head of the Computational Methods Development Department at the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. While at ARL, he oversaw a group of engineers that developed state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics codes and models to solve some of the Navy’s most challenging problems. His research at ARL involved developing new numerical methods for solving space and time-dependent coupled reactor physics/thermal-hydraulic problems for nuclear reactor safety analysis.
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