Reactor Technology Integration Group (ReTI)

People

Faculty

Ben Lindley

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: lindley2@wisc.edu

Scientists and Post-doctoral Researchers

Mohammad Amer Allaf

Position title: Scientist

Email: allaf@wisc.edu

Taesuk Oh

Position title: Post-doctoral Researcher

Email: toh8@wisc.edu

Graduate Students

Gabriel Dengler-Jeanblanc

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design and Analysis

Email: denglerjeanb@wisc.edu

Ethan Fowler

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: epfowler@wisc.edu

Jacob Fowler

Position title: Graduate Student | Nuclear Power Technoeconomic Analysis

Email: jfowler5@wisc.edu

Samuel Garcia

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: sgarcia9@wisc.edu

Liz Keith

Position title: Graduate Student | Integrated Energy Systems

Email: ekeith2@wisc.edu

Veronica Morse

Position title: Graduate Student | Construction Engineering and Management

Email: vmorse@wisc.edu

Rahnuma Aziz Nisa

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: nisa@wisc.edu

Esther Naa Amerley Ollennu

Position title: Research Assistant | Open Architecture for Nuclear Cost Reduction

Email: ollennu@wisc.edu

Andrew Quaal

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: aquaal@wisc.edu

Hitarth Shah

Position title: Graduate Student | Fusion Technology Systems

Email: hrshah3@wisc.edu

Juan Miguel Valderrama

Position title: Graduate Student | Fusion Blankets & Fuel Cycles

Email: jvalderrama@wisc.edu

Isabella Wood

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: iewood@wisc.edu

Jessica Wysocki

Position title: Graduate Student | Fusion Blanket Technology

Email: jawysocki@wisc.edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Ethan Chang

Position title: Undergraduate Student

Email: edchang@wisc.edu

Tristan Engelmann

Email: tengelmann@wisc.edu

Asher Jewell

Position title: Undergraduate Student | Integrated Energy Systems

Email: acjewell@wisc.edu

Alumni (and first destination)

  1. Erin Rice (MS, 2025) – Walsh Construction
  2. Matthew Nyberg (PhD, 2025) – SHINE Technologies
  3. Ryan Dailey (PhD, 2025) – X-energy
  4. Dylan Garofalo (MS, 2025) – Dairyland Power
  5. Oliver Paleen (MS, 2025) – TerraPower
  6. Aidan Rigby (PhD, 2025) – Idaho National Laboratory
  7. Virginia Lilly (Undergraduate, 2025) – Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  8. Seung Kyo Jung (MS, 2024) – Nano Nuclear Energy
  9. Lauren Welker (MS, 2024) – DPR Construction
  10. Qianna Loomis (BS, 2024) – Barr Engineering
  11. Joseph Eickman (MS, 2023) – Idaho National Laboratory
  12. Kenneth Franzese (Undergraduate, 2023) – BWX Technologies
  13. Cate Beckman (Undergraduate, 2023) – Michigan State University
  14. Alex Rodgers (Undergraduate, 2023) – Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  15. Una Baker (Postdoc, 2023) – Nuclear Energy Agency
  16. Ian Prado (MS, 2023) – Kairos Power
  17. Saeed Alhadhrami (MS, 2022) – Khalifa University
  18. Josh Ruegsegger (MS, 2022) – Savannah River National Laboratory
  19. Gabriel Soto (Postdoc, 2022) – Idaho National Laboratory
  20. Stefanno Alarcon Nunez (Undergraduate, 2022) – UC Health
  21. Anthony Boyd (Undergraduate, 2022) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  22. Toby Raza (Undergraduate, 2022) – National Grid
  23. Grace Stanke (Undergraduate, 2021) – Constellation
  24. Chumani Mokoena (Undergraduate, 2021) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology