Meet the Team

Meet the faculty, staff, and researchers of the Queen’s University Nuclear Materials Group.

Faculty

Dr. Mark Daymond

Professor

Research Interest: Micromechanisms of deformation in metals, ceramics and composites; slip, twinning, phase transformation, cracking. Both experimental and modelling.
Development and application of advanced neutron and x-ray scattering techniques in materials research, optimisation of diffraction optics, data analysis and statistical treatments. Both experimental and modelling.
Nuclear materials
Phone: (613)533-2193
Email: mark.daymond@queensu.ca
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Dr. Zhongwen Yao, LEL

Professor

Research Interest: Ni-based superalloys, Oxide Dispersion-strengthened (ODS) Steels, Zr alloys, and other nuclear materials etc.
Nanostructure characterization in metals
Thin film coating technology
Transmission electron microscopy imaging technology
Phone: (613)-533-3435
Email: yaoz@queensu.ca
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Prof. Rick Holt

Emeritus professor

Research Interest: Performance of reactor components.
Phone: (613)533-6831
Email: richard.holt@queensu.ca

Dr. Malcolm Griffiths

Adjunct Professor

Research Interest: Radiation damage in nuclear reactor core materials and the development of improved materials to suit particular nuclear reactor applications.
Development of techniques and methods to quantitatively characterise material microstructures before and after irradiation using transmission electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction facilities.
Irradiation tests using electron, gamma, ion and neutron irradiation.
Modelling irradiation deformation and mechanical property changes.
Email: malcolm.griffiths@queensu.ca

Dr. Levente Balogh

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Irradiation of Materials, Nuclear Materials, Structural Materials, Materials Characterization, X-ray and Neutron Diffraction, Microstructure and Mechanical Property Relations, Accelerator-based Neutron Generation and Spectroscopy.
Phone: (613)533-6000, ext. 7-4570
Email: levente.balogh@queensu.ca
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Dr. Suraj Persaud

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Corrosion and Environmental Degradation of Materials, Materials Characterization, Nuclear Materials
Phone: (613)-533-6000 ext. 74015
Email: suraj.persaud@queensu.ca
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Dr. Laurent Béland

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Computational materials physics. The types of methods I use include:

• Atomistic simulation on short timescales (molecular dynamics)
• Atomistic simulations on long timescales (accelerated dynamics)
• Mesoscale simulations
• Classical force-field development, based on empirical data and quantum mechanics

These simulations apply to materials such as:
• Metals and alloys
• Cements
• Oxides

Phone: (613)-817-5441
Email: laurent.beland@queensu.ca
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Staff

Tom Feuerstake

RMTL Manager

Email: tom.feuerstake@queensu.ca

Curtis McDonald

Accelerator Operator, Lab Technician

Duties: Operating and maintaining RMTL facilities and equipment. Safety supervision and training.
Phone: (613)548-8357
Email: curtis.mcdonald@queensu.ca
Links: Published Works

Candace Chabot

Administrative Research Assistant

Duties: Administrative duties, purchasing, invoicing, account reconciliation, web design and maintenance, event organization and booking.
Email: candace.chabot@queensu.ca
Links: LinkedIn
Portfolio

Research Associates

Kevin Daub

Research Associate

Email: kevin.daub@queensu.ca

Dr. Fei Long

Research Associate

Research Interest: Zirconium alloys; Irradiation damage; In-situ TEM characterization, deformation mechanism.
Email: f.long@queensu.ca
Links: Google Scholar

Postdocs

Dr. Jean-Francois Caron

Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: jfc3@queensu.ca

Dr. Pooyan Changizian

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interest: Radiation damage, Ni-based superalloys, Transmission/Scanning electron microscopy, Nano/Micro-mechanical tests, Deformation mechanism, Failure analysis.
Phone: (613)770-7402
Email: 13pc10@queensu.ca
Links: Google Scholar
LinkedIn

Dr.Qingshan Dong

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interest: Irradiation damage characterization, Deformation of metals, Interface analysis of particles.
Phone: (343)-333-6372
Email: qingshan.dong@queensu.ca
Links: Google Scholar

Dr. Hong Qin

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interest: Additive manufacturing-microstructure characterization of selective laser melted (SLM) aluminum alloys and Inconel alloys.
Email: hq6@queensu.ca
Links: Initiation and Accomodation Article
Variant Selection Article
Effect of Dynamic Strain Aging Article
Microstructure and Texture Evolution Article

Dr. Peyman Saidi

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interest: Studying equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transformations utilizing atomistic simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and DFT.
Email: peyman.saidi@queensu.ca
Links: Google Scholar
LinkedIn

Dr. Matthew Topping

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interest: Nuclear Materials, proton-irradiations, Zirconium, Nickel, electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), in-situ mechanical testing in SEM.
Email: matthew.topping@queensu.ca
Links: Research Gate
LinkedIn

PhD Students

Adil Shaik

PhD Student

Research Interest:Mechanistic understanding of zirconium corrosion and hydrogen pick-up, Micromechanics of oxide scales
Phone:1-(343)333-8475
Email:19sa36@queensu.ca
Links:Google Scholar

Segun Aiyeru

PhD Student

Email: s.aiyeru@queensu.ca

Nima Nikpoor Badr

PhD Student

Research Interest: Microstructural characterization of Zr-hydrides
Email: 14nnb1@queensu.ca

Igor Cherubin

PhD Student

Research Interest:Nuclear Materials, Zr-2.5%Nb and hydride characterization, hydride formation in Zr alloys, hardening mechanisms, and delayed hydride cracking (DHC).
Phone:(613)770-6199
Email: igor.cherubin@queensu.ca
Links: LinkedIn
Google Scholar

Keyvan Ferasat

PhD Student

Email: 17kf7@queensu.ca

Yasaman Ghaffari

PhD Student

Email: 18yg19@queensu.ca

Hooman Gholamzadeh

PhD Student

Research Interest:Corrosion, Stress Corrosion Cracking, Macro and Micro Mechanical testing, Materials Characterization and Microscopy Techniques.
Email:hooman.gholamzadeh@queensu.ca

Sean Hanlon

Part-time PhD Student

Research Interest: Environmentally assisted cracking of Zr alloys
Email: 15smkh@queensu.ca

Aditya Kamath

PhD Student

Research Interest:Molecular dynamics, cascade simulations on short time scales.
Email: 18aak19@queensu.ca

Yu Luo

PhD Student

Email: yu.luo@queensu.ca

Yuhan Mao

PhD Student

Research Interest: Nuclear Materials, Rate Theory Models.
Email: 14ym16@queensu.ca

Brodie Moore

PhD Student

Research Interest: In-situ Irradiation Creep in zirconium and zirconium alloys.
Phone: (403)861-0308
Email: 13bjm@queensu.ca

Vindel Ramsundar

PhD Student

Email: 19vsr@queensu.ca

Lucas Ravkov

PhD Student

Email: 12lar5@queensu.ca

Ronit Roy

PhD Student

Email: 19rr9@queensu.ca

Jordan Soloman

PhD Student

Email: j.solomon@queensu.ca

Iveta Steblevska

PhD Student

Research Interest:Accelerator technology; Control systems in the proton accelerator; Accelerator beam parameter measurements
Email: 18is13@queensu.caLinks: LinkedIn Google Scholar

Adriano Yaedu

PhD Student

Research Interest:High-temperature oxidation, Corrosion, Failure Analysis, Damage Mechanisms
Email: 19aey@queensu.ca

Links: LinkedIn

Shengze Yin

PhD Student

Research Interest: Powder metallurgies in additive manufacturing; to study the composition, morphology, size distribution, and other powder characteristic properties and their effects on the parts made by selective laser melting process.
Email: s.yin@queensu.ca

Yubin Zhao

PhD Student

Research Interest: Irradiation creep.
Phone: (613)770-3891
Email: 17yz74@queensu.ca

MASc Students

Chris Anderson

MASc Student

Email: chris.anderson@queensu.ca

Robert Carson

MASc Student

Email: r.carson@queensu.ca

Amir Ghorbani

MASc Student

Email: amir.ghorbani@queensu.ca

Rong Guo

PhD Student

Research Interest:Lab apparatus design, Proton irradiation sample holder, Temperature control, Helium cooling system, Secondary electron suppression.
Phone: 647-458-4001
Email: Rong.Guo@queensu.ca