I joined the Wirth Research Group in Fall 2022 to pursue a PhD in Nuclear Engineering at University of Tennessee. My current research involves a global sensitivity analysis on a mechanistic diffusivity calculation for TRISO fuel using BISON. I am currently exploring mechanistically modeling buffer densification in TRISO particles for the remainder of my PhD. I previously graduated from University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering. During my undergraduate, I worked on fuel performance modeling in the BISON code developed by INL to develop stress-strain analyses for the accident-tolerant cladding iron-chromium-aluminum.
