Graduate and Postdoc

MIT’s commencement ceremony is on May 30th. Forty NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Jacob Adams PhDPatrick Adrian PhDGustavo Aguiar PhDRachel Bielajew PhDFlorian Chavagnat PhDBenjamin Dacus PhDRichard Ibekwe ScDEthan Klein PhDPeter Lalor PhDChristina Migliore PhDThanh Nguyen PhDMadhumitha Ravichandran PhDEli Sanchez PhDYu-Jou Wang PhD Graduating with...

The following awards were announced at the awards ceremony hosted by the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society on May 22, 2024. NSE Awards Marco Graffiedi G Manson Benedict Award presented to a...

Thomas Varnish loves his hobbies – knitting, baking, pottery, it’s a long list. His latest interest is analog film photography. A picture with his mother and another with his boyfriend are just a few of Varnish’s favorites. “These moments of human connection...

The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Hartwig is one of twenty-three MIT professors have been selected as recipients of the award for 2023-25, marking the most extensive cohort of honorees to date.

It’s a question that occupies significant bandwidth in the world of nuclear arms security: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least five times the speed of sound, increase the likelihood of nuclear war? Eli Sanchez, who completed his doctoral studies...

The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosts its annual Research Expo on April 26, 2024. The event will showcase NSE research from across the Department.

The “map”, or the phonon stability boundary, a graphical representation that plots the stability regions of a crystal as a function of strain. This map helps scientists and engineers determine the conditions under which a material can exist in a particular phase...

The method lets researchers identify and control larger numbers of atomic-scale defects, to build a bigger system of qubits.

Guoqing Wang loves to play the erhu, a Chinese stringed musical instrument, remembering lessons he learned from his father as a young boy. He sees similarities between the music from the bowed instrument and the research subject he works on today: quantum...