Alvaro Pizarro-Vallejos

Affiliation

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Biography

I have been a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign (UIUC) Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering since 2019 conducting research as a graduate assistant for Dr. Michael Kaminski. Prior to starting my PhD, I have earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree at the University of New Mexico and a Master of Science (MS) degree at the Pennsylvania State University in nuclear engineering. My current research is on the development of a heat signature computer simulation for safeguarded spent fuel, which is my dissertation topic.