Xiang Liu, who earned his doctorate in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering in 2018, is the 2019 winner of The Grainger College of Engineering Ross Martin Award.
The Martin Award recognizes the year’s most outstanding research achievement by a graduate student in the college. The honor is a memorial to Ross J. Martin, Associate Dean of the College, who served as director of the Engineering Experiment Station for 26 years, until his death in 1984.
Liu also was the national winner of the American Nuclear Society’s 2018 Mark Mills Award. That honor recognizes the graduate student author who submits the best original technical paper contributing to the advancement of science and engineering related to the atomic nucleus.
Currently a postdoctoral research scientist in the Characterization and Advanced Post-Irradiation Examination Division at Idaho National Laboratory, Liu focused his research on understanding how different types of irradiation affects the microstructural evolution in advanced reactor candidate alloys, and how these radiation-induced microstructural changes affect the material property.