Dr. Samuel Walker

Former group member and PhD student Dr. Samuel Walker

Originally hailing from the piney woods of east Texas, Sam earned his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from LeTourneau University in 2014. After spending a year teaching abroad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with his wife, Sam joined the NuCoMP research group at RPI in Fall of 2016.His research focuses on computational simulations of the Gen. IV molten salt reactor (MSR). Sam was awarded the DOE NEUP fellowship in May 2017 and hopes to develop multi-physics models for MSR safety and transient analysis.

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