Dr. Andrew Pavlou

Former group member and PhD student Dr. Andrew Pavlou

Andrew received his B.S. degree in nuclear engineering and engineering physics (Magna Cum Laude) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009, his M.S. degree in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences from the University of Michigan in 2011, and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering and science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2015. He spent the summers of 2011 and 2014 as a research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory working in the XCP-3 Monte Carlo codes group. For his doctoral research, Andrew developed a novel method for sampling secondary neutron scattering parameters adaptively in temperature in the thermal energy range for Monte Carlo simulations of neutron transport. This research drastically reduces the amount of nuclear data that needs to be stored for thermal neutron scattering.

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