People

Dr. Chuck Melcher
SMRC Director and Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

301 Science and Engineering Research Facility
Phone: (865) 974-0254
Fax: (865) 974-4998
Email: cmelcher@utk.edu

Merry Spurrier
SMRC Research Associate

301 Science and Engineering Research Facility
Phone: (865) 974-0267
Fax: (865) 974-4998
Email: mspurrier@utk.edu

Piotr Szupryczynski
Assistant Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: pszupryc@utk.edu

Posters: 2003 IEEE NSS TL (PDF), 2005 IEE NSS LPS (PDF), and 2005 IEEE NSS LuAP (PDF).

Lars Eriksson
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Professor, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden
Scientific Advisor, Siemens Molecular Imaging

Phillip Rack
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: prack@utk.edu

Frank Holiway
Accounting Specialist II, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: wholiway@utk.edu

Jon Peak
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: jpeak1@utk.edu

Poster: Combinatorial Synthesis of Scintillation Crystals (2006)

Kurt Johanns
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: kjohann1@utk.edu

Harold Rothfuss
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: hrothfus@utk.edu

Presentation: Energy Resolution and Absolute Detection Efficiency for LSO Crystals: A Comparison between Monte Carlo Simulation and Experimental Data (2006)

Kan Yang
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: kyang5@utk.edu

Lucas Hofmeister
Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
Email: lhofmeis@utk.edu

Paul Cutler
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: pcutler@utk.edu

Poster: Phase Equilibria and Crystal Chemistry in the Lu₂O₃-Al₂O₃ System (2006)

Sergio de la Barrera
Undergraduate Student, Nuclear Engineering
Email:

Brandon Goodwin
Undergraduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: wgoodwi2@utk.edu

Dr. William Moses
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Prof. Marek Moszynski
Deputy Director of the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in Poland

Dr. Wolfgang Rossner
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany

Claudia Rawn
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Joint appointment UT/ORNL
Email: crawn@ornl.gov

Poster: 2005 ACCGE-16 (PDF)

Stephan Friedrich
Group Leader, Advanced Detectors
X-ray absorption spectroscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Paper: C. L. Melcher, S. Friedrich, S. P. Cramer, M. A. Spurrier, P. Szupryczynski, R. Nutt, Cerium oxidation state in LSO scintillators, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52(3) 1809-1812 (2005)

Nikoloz Jalabadze
Professor, Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi, Georgia
Collaboration via the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), working toward the development of new nanocrystalline scintillation materials.
Presentation: Fabrication of Some Standard and New Nanocrystalline Scintillation Materials

Camden Hubbard
Group Leader, Thermophysical Properties User Center
Email: hubbardcr@ornl.gov

High Temperature Materials Lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Transmission electron microscopy at ORNL

Larry Allard
Group Leader, Materials Analysis User Center

High Temperature Materials Lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Transmission electron microscopy at ORNL

Drew Carey
Consultant, Siemens Molecular Imaging