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

Jannuary 2026

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

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.

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.

• Jossou lab’s got two NEUP proposals funded to study U-10Zr fuel and setup a spark plasma sintering infrastructure
• Ericmoore Jossou: Optimizing nuclear fuels for next-generation reactors
• Looking Back, Reaching Forward
• School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
• Computing for the health of the planet
• PEOPLE: Ericmoore Jossou joins MIT as an Assistant Professor.