William Neilson

Affiliation

Lancaster University

Biography

I am currently completing a PhD at Lancaster University in Dr. Samuel Murphy's Materials Modelling Group, which I began following completion of a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester. My PhD has set out to improve the understanding of the aging processes of PuO2. To do this I have studied the materials intrinsic defects as well as the mode and impact of the incorporation of Am and He. This has been accomplished using density functional theory (DFT) combined with our purpose-built thermodynamic Python code, which we call the Defect Analysis Package (DefAP).