Dr. Elizabeth S. Sooby is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas, at San Antonio and Co-Founder of Nuclear Materials Consulting, LLC. She received her B.S. degree in Physics from Millsaps College in 2008 and received M.S. degree, Ph.D degree, in Physics from Texas A&M University 2011 and 2014. Dr. Elizabeth S. Sooby is an Experienced Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the nuclear materials research industry, being skilled in materials science, spectroscopy, microscopy, thermal analysis, and materials testing.
Dr. Markus Piro is a Associate Professor at the Department of Energy and Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nuclear Fuels and Materials. He is Head of Fuel Modeling and Fission Product Transport Section, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (2013-2016). He received a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2011-2012). His research interests include nuclear fuel performance and safety, spent nuclear fuel, Emerging nuclear technologies (i.e., GenIV, SMRs, etc.), energy systems and manufacturing, computational thermodynamics, experimental and computational fluid dynamics​, multi-physics modeling and simulation, and applied mathematics (i.e., optimization, linear algebra, etc.).
