2026

May 2026

  • Matthias is joining the group as a PhD student!
  • Congratulations to Sayantan for passing the thesis area exam! Good job Sayantan!
  • Mack, Sarah, Sayantan, DongHun presented posters at the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Research expo.
  • Sayantan was a featured presenter at the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Research expo.

April 2026

  • Ericmoore gave two talks at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Hawaii.
  • Ericmoore co-organized a symposium at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Hawaii on nuclear materials.
  • Mack won a silver graduate student award for his talk at MRS Spring in Hawaii.
  • Anthony gave an oral presentation at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Hawaii.
  • Donghun presented a poster at Materials Research Society’s Spring Meeting. (Best Poster Award Nominee)

March 2026

  • Simos Michalopoulos joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
  • Ericmoore traveled to Japan with MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering.
  • Sarah got beamtime at NSLS II!
  • Ericmoore gave a talk at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society in San Diego

February 2026

  • Mack presented his work at the GE Vernova X MIT symposium poster session
  • Ericmoore was a panelist at the GE Vernova X MIT symposium
  • Sayantan and DongHun went to beamtime in ESRF in Grenoble, France

Jannuary 2026

  • David going away party ☹
  • Sayantan won a Graduate Student Travel Grant for The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society.

 

 

2025

December 2025

  • Sayantan won $10,000 Lemelson Vest Award
  • Ericmoore gave an invited talk at Materials Research Society in Boston.
  • Sayantan and Anthony presented posters at MRS Fall 2025 in Boston.
  • Mack gave an oral presentation at Materials Research Society, Boston.

November 2025

  • Anthony, Mack, Sarah and Tuong presented posters at the Advanced Fuel Campaign Annual Program Review
  • Mack’s Poster won most innovative topic and Anthony’s poster won best design

October 2025

  • Ericmoore gave an invited talk Materials day 2025.
  • Sayantan presented a poster at Materials day 2025
  • Mack’s paper accepted in Acta Materialia.
  • Ericmoore gave two talks at MS & T 2025 in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Sayantan gave an oral presentation at MS & T 2025 in Columbus, Ohio.

September 2025

  • Sarah Cole and Tuong Phung joined the lab. Welcome to the group

August 2025

  • David and Sayantan present their work at Fusion Conference
  • The lab’s first paper is published in scripta materialia and featured in MIT news.
  • Jossou lab was awarded the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance funding.

July 2025

June 2025

  • Edwin Trejo Balderas joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher

May 2025

  • Congratulations to Riley Hultquist and Riley Moeykens on their graduation from MIT! Well-earned and they will be missed!
  • Ericmoore attended the metallic fuel workshop at INL.
  • Ericmoore was awarded the PAI Outstanding Faculty Award

April 2025

  • Best poster for David at MRS spring meeting!
  • David and Riley presented a poster at Materials Research Society, San Diego.
  • The lab submitted our first paper.
  • Ericmoore gave an invited talk at Rutgers University.
  • The lab welcomes Mathias Boulanger and Axel Tran for summer internship.

March 2025

  • Mack gave an oral presentation at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society

February 2025

  • Congratulations to Mack for passing the thesis area exam! Good job Mack!

January 2025

  • Riley H. presented a poster at MARC 2025.

2024

December 2024

  • Ericmoore attended and gave a talk at African Materials Research Society, Rwanda.
  • David gave an invited talk at the IM2NP institute in Marseille and continued collaboration with the SixS beamline at SOLEIL for the study of platinum surfaces.
  • Mack gave an oral presentation at Materials Research Society, Boston.

October 2024

  • Alanna and Riley M. presented a poster at Nuclear Materials conference, Singapore.
  • Ericmoore attended and gave an invited talk at the MS & T conference, Pittsburg.
  • We received the SoE Research Tool and Equipment Support Seed Grant.

September 2024

  • Alanna and Riley M. presented a poster at Nuclear Materials conference, Singapore
  • Karsten Skildheim joins the group as an undergraduate researcher

June 2024

  • David had a poster presentation at the Coherence conference in Lund, Sweden.
  • Ericmoore receive the Research Support Committee grant
  • The lab welcomes Jimmy Capela and Alanna Senior for summer internship.

May 2024

  • Tadiwanashe Mavetera joins the group as an undergraduate researcher
  • Ericmoore received the MIT Global Seed Funds to collaborate with scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Sunyani Technical University, Sunyani Ghana.

April 2024

  • We are grateful to receive the new NEUP project led by Ericmoore! The is titled “Comparative study of three-dimensional microstructural imaging and thermal conductivity evolution of irradiated solid and annular U-Zr fuels”.
  • Ericmoore received the Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research funding for a spark plasma sintering setup.

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