Mark Pierson

Associate Professor of Practice, Retired, Teaching on-line courses

• Education

  Ph.D. , Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2005
  M.S., Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2000
  B.A., German, University of California, Davis

• Areas of Research

  Radioisotope betavoltaic batteries

  Nuclear fuel cycle: alternative back end fuel cycle to minimize long-term radioactive waste disposal through the use of accelerator-driven subcritical systems

  Nuclear security, nonproliferation and safeguards: Safeguards-by-Design for integral pressurized water small modular reactors

  Radiation transport, and radiation detection and measurement

  Nuclear power plant operations and safety: Digital control rooms, and Outage Management systems

  Fusion Demonstration Reactor (Fusor): Undergraduate research project that uses inertial electrostatic confinement deuterium-deuterium fusion to create a star-like plasma and generate neutrons for activation experiments. Used for research and educational outreach.