Team

Principal Investigator

Minghui Chen, Ph.D.

Dr. Minghui Chen joined the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor in 2019. Prior to that, Dr. Chen was a research fellow in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Dr. Chen earned his B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Harbin Engineering University in China in 2011, his M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2015, and Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2018.

Dr. Minghui Chen is an inaugural winner of the Distinguished Early Career Award granted by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Mingfu He, Ph.D.

Dr. Mingfu He is a postdoctoral research fellow. Mingfu obtained his B.S. degree in nuclear science and engineering from Chengdu University of Technology in 2016, his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in nuclear engineering respectively in 2019 and 2022 from the University of New Mexico. Mingfu’s experimental research focuses on molten salt steam generator development based printed circuit technologies, cutting-edge metrological sensors verification and validation in Gen IV reactor thermal hydraulics experiments and material conjugated boiling heat transfer using new alloys including accident tolerant fuel claddings. His computational interests are to apply the machine learning technologies to assess thermal and structural risks of fuel-clad entities, and predict parameters of interests including critical heat flux and peak cladding temperature, maintain health conditions of light water reactor cores.

Khaled Talaat, Ph.D.

Dr. Khaled Talaat is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from UNM in 2019 and 2022, respectively, and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Central Michigan University in 2016. His expertise is in multi-physics and multi-scale computational simulations including computational fluid dynamics, coupled neutronics-thermal hydraulics, aerosol and particle transport, and molecular dynamics. He is currently working on designing passive decay heat removal systems for fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors.

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