NIB2023 Cohort

Umar Ahmad is a master's student in nuclear energy at the University of Cambridge. Was the first international delegate to participate in the 2023 Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation

Tsendsuren Amarjargal is a graduate student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, specializing in nuclear engineering. She previously completed a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the same field at the National University of Mongolia. 

Saleem Al Dajani holds a Master's of Science in Nuclear Science and Engineering and dual Bachelor's of Science degrees in Physics and Chemical-Biological Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now he is on leave from the University of California Berkeley, pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Engineering. 

Jenifer Avellaneda Diaz is a graduate from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and a Nuclear Risk Analysis Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company. 

Alice Ding is a current graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the department of nuclear science and engineering with an interest in multiphase computational fluid dynamics. 

Camila Boix Mansilla is a graduate from Universidad de San Andrés and a former quality control specialist for SMC National. 

Samuel Garcia is a nuclear engineering graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics department. His current research is in Multiphysics modelling of microreactor technology. 

Emile Germonpre completed his Chemical Engineering degree as the valedictorian of the engineering cohort and is now pursuing a degree in Nuclear Engineering at MIT. 

Lewis Handy-Cardenas is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an anticipated graduation in summer 2024. 

Hannah Harris is a master's student and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency. She has a Bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from Wellesley College and worked as a researcher, project manager, and science communicator for the International Astronomical Union. 

Xiaoqing Huang is currently pursuing a masters in Nuclear Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. 

Jack Lanza is a PhD student at The Ohio State University studying Nuclear Engineering. 

Susannah Lea received an integrated masters in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College and is currently a PhD student in the same department. 

Madeleine Lewis is a research scientist at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources, where she has a joint appointment in the Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis and the Center for Economic Geology Research. 

Gengchen Li is a student at Tokyo Institute of Technology pursuing a degree in nuclear engineering. 

Juzel Lloyd is a climate and energy analyst at the Breakthrough Institute and has worked extensively on various energy and climate change issues. 

Nicholas Mecham is a PhD candidate at North Carolina State University. His research area focuses on the simulation of single and two-phase flows in nuclear thermal hydraulics applications. 

John Mobley IV is a dual master’s student in the Higher Education Administration and Business Administration programs at Iowa State University. 

Jasmine Mund is a graduate mechanical engineer on the Energus nuclear graduates program sponsored by Rolls-Royce. 

Malik Oliver graduated from Fayetteville State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a minor in mathematics and is now pursuing a Master of Science in Chemistry at San Jose State University. 

Marley Ottman recently graduated nuclear engineer with a strong passion for energy infrastructure and exploring new possibilities in the nuclear field. 

Iva Reckling completed her B.A. at Western Washington University and now is pursuing a joint J.D./M.A. in Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming College of Law. 

Caleb Rogers is a sales Director at Voltus and a City Councilor in Williamsburg, Virginia, a city powered by nuclear energy. 

Carolina Seyffert obtained a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and a Joint Master’s degree from the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in both Zurich and Lausanne. 

Alessandra Totaro Villar is a recent graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with her BS in Nuclear Engineering. 

Aronne Travaglia is a bilingual software engineer with a nuclear engineering background and passionate nuclear energy advocate from Italy with over 2 years of experience in nuclear reactor CFD & neutronics simulations. 

Saskia van Nieuwstadt is a recent graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and will soon begin a master’s program at TU Delft. 

Zhang Yang is a Masters student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology studying chemical engineering with a focus on the topic absorption of platinum metal ions through organic synthesis of PDMS sponge and its surface modification. 

Knight Yeboah is a national service personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority in Ghana. He is in the Nuclear Security Department under the Nuclear Installations Directorate. 

Xucheng Zhao is a PhD student in nuclear engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.