2026

September 2026

  • Moran is joining the group as a visiting Scientist!

August 2026

  • Anthony is headed to Idaho National Lab! Good luck Anthony!
  • Anthony’s paper was featured on MIT News and Nuclear News Wire!
  • Ericmoore gave an invited talk at Microscopy and Microanalysis conference.
  • DongHun was awarded the KSEA-KUSCO Scholarship for Graduate Students. The scholarship is jointly awarded by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and the Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center (KUSCO). 

July 2026

June 2026

  • DongHun gave oral presentation at Coherence conference.
  • Ericmoore presented a poster at Coherence conference.
  • Ericmoore received the MIT Global Seed Funds to collaborate with scientists from Czech Technical University.
  • Ericmoore was awarded the 2026 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching.
  • Ericmoore in collaboration with Prof. Tess Smidt received the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium grant. This will support our phase retrieval algorithm development work.
  • Mack presented a poster at the 2026 GRC Solid State Studies in Ceramics.

    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.

    January 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 at 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.

    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

    • Ericmoore attended and gave an invited talk at the MS & T conference, Pittsburgh.
    • 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 received 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! It 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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