Members
Professor Benjamin Beeler
Dr. Beeler was born on a pig and sheep farm in Caneyville, Kentucky. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a post-doctoral researcher jointly at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the NC State faculty, he was a computational scientist in the Computational Microstructure Science group in the Fuels Modeling and Simulation Department at Idaho National Laboratory. He is the current leader of the Microstructure Fuel Performance Modeling working group for the United States High-Performance Research Reactor program.
Graduate Students
Current
Khadija Mahbuba
I am from Bangladesh. I did my undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Before joining NCSU, I worked in a team in an HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) consulting company back in Bangladesh. Now, I am doing my PhD in Nuclear Engineering department. My research is focused on metallic fuel, more explicitly on the low-temperature Uranium phase (alpha Uranium). I study the interfacial properties and radiation damage of alpha U. Apart from the research I enjoy exploring new things.
ATM Jahid Hasan
I spent most of my life in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where I was born. I received my Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Dhaka. I was involved with the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad and worked on a few projects under the organization. Currently, I am working on quantifying the material properties of new nuclear materials using atomistic simulations. My research also involves the application of machine learning to improve fission gas swelling models.
Shehab Shousha
I was born and raised by the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. I got my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Nuclear and Radiation engineering from Alexandria University. Before joining NCSU, I was a research assistant at the American University in Cairo in the materials theory group. Now, I am a graduate student in the nuclear engineering department and a research assistant in the computational nuclear materials science group. My current research involves first-principles calculations to understand the key properties of novel nuclear fuels.
Nermeen Elamrawy
I come from Alexandria, Egypt where I got my bachelor degree in nuclear engineering. Then I flew to Milan, Italy where I’ve earned my M.Sc. During my master’s journey, I decided I want to continue my studies in the track of nuclear material. Currently I’m a graduate student in the nuclear engineering department and my research focus is using multiple computational methods on polycrystalline nuclear fuel materials.
Mohamed AbdulHameed
I got my bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt in 2020. After that, I served as a data analyst in the Egyptian Air Defense Forces, and then worked as a physics teaching assistant at the University of Science and Technology at Zewail City, Egypt. Additionally, I have been an undergraduate fellow of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC), KAIST, South Korea. My research interests include using computational tools to study the performance of accident-tolerant fuels.
Former
Ahmed Aly
Kai Duemmler
Masters Students
Current
Former
Vedant Deshpande
Patrick Hartwell
Undergraduate Students
Current
Cece Harrison
Ethan Wilson
Former
Chris Von Dohlen
Patrick Hartwell
Veronica Heyl