Paul Wilson (nuclear engineer)

Professor
Paul Philip Hood Wilson
Ph.D., Dr.-Ing.
Born October 13, 1971 (1971-10-13) (age 44)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Residence United States
Nationality Canada
Fields Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Computing
Institutions University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Toronto
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisors

Douglass Henderson
Ulrich Fischer

Günther Kessler
Doctoral students

Kerry Dunn
Eric Edwards
Matthew Gidden
Po Hu
Kathryn Huff
Brian Kiedrowski
Ahmad Ibrahim
Phiphat Phruksarojanakun
Stuart Slattery
Rachel Slaybaugh

Brandon Smith
Known for ACI
ALARA
Cyclus
DAGMC
NAYGN
Notable awards

ANS Presidential Citation (1996)
Marie Curie Research Fellow (1996-1998)
Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award (2014)

Discovery Fellow, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Paul Philip Hood Wilson (born October 13, 1971) is a professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nuclear energy communicator,[1][2][3][4] and advocate of modern computational science practices.[5][6] He is well known for leading the production of the computational nuclear engineering toolkits ALARA,[7][8][9] Cyclus,[10][11] and DAGMC.[12] He is also the founding president of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear and is the Faculty Director of the Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Education

Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and was raised in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. He obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science in the Nuclear Power option of the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto. He then obtained a Doktor-Ingenieur degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999.[13] There, Wilson became an assistant professor in August 2001, associate professor in July 2008, and full professor in January 2013.

At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wilson serves on the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin Energy Institute, the Steering Committee of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and as Faculty Director of the Advanced Computing Initiative. He also served as Chair of the Energy Analysis & Policy Program (2008-2013).

Honors

Work

Wilson has contributed an array of computational advances to nuclear engineering:

References

  1. ↑ American Nuclear Society. “The Hofstra Debate in Brief American Nuclear Society Position on Nuclear Equality.” American Nuclear Society Public Information, November 25, 2014. http://www.ans.org/pi/news/article-420/.
  2. ↑ Hofstra University. Should Nuclear Energy Be Expanded to Help Create a More Sustainable Future? Accessed October 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MSmHyViR5Y.
  3. ↑ Marketplace. “A Reactor to Make Nuclear Affordable.” NPR radio program, March 8, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2015. http://www.icyte.com/system/snapshots/fs1/f/e/b/4/feb49a373258bbb4b94a7fae7c00d133fa67dc54/index.html.
  4. ↑ On Point with Tom Ashbrook. "Debating a Nuclear Revival." NPR radio program, February 18, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2015. http://onpoint.wbur.org/2010/02/18/debating-a-nuclear-revival.
  5. ↑ Wilson, Greg, D. A. Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, Neil P. Chue Hong, Matt Davis, Richard T. Guy, Steven H. D. Haddock, et al. “Best Practices for Scientific Computing.” PLoS Biol 12, no. 1 (January 7, 2014): e1001745. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745.
  6. ↑ Kousta, Stavroula. “» Metrics and Impact – Looking Beyond Research Articles.” Accessed October 13, 2015. http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2015/03/02/metrics-and-impact-looking-beyond-research-articles/.
  7. 1 2 Wilson, P.P.H. “ALARA: Analytic and Laplacian Adaptive Radioactivity Analysis.” PhD Thesis, Fusion Technology Institute, UW-Madison, 1999.
  8. 1 2 Wilson, P.P.H., and D.L. Henderson. “ALARA: Analytic and Laplacian Adaptive Radioactivity Analysis, Volume I, Technical Material.” Fusion Technology Institute Report. Madison, WI, United States: Fusion Technology Institute, UW-Madison, 1998.
  9. 1 2 Wilson, P.P.H., and D.L. Henderson. “ALARA: Analytic and Laplacian Adaptive Radioactive Analysis, Volume II, Users’ Guide.” Fusion Technology Institute Report. Madison, WI, United States: Fusion Technology Institute, UW-Madison, 1998.
  10. 1 2 Huff, Kathryn D., Matthew J. Gidden, Robert W. Carlsen, Robert R. Flanagan, Meghan B. McGarry, Arrielle C. Opotowsky, Erich A. Schneider, Anthony M. Scopatz, and Paul P. H. Wilson. “Fundamental Concepts in the Cyclus Fuel Cycle Simulator Framework.” arXiv:1509.03604 [cs], September 11, 2015. http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03604.
  11. 1 2 Carlsen, Robert W., Matthew Gidden, Kathryn Huff, Arrielle C. Opotowsky, Olzhas Rakhimov, Anthony M. Scopatz, Zach Welch, and Paul Wilson. “Cyclus v1.0.0.” Figshare, June 2, 2014. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1041745.
  12. 1 2 Tautges, Timothy J., Paul PH Wilson, Jason Kraftcheck, Brandon F. Smith, and Douglass L. Henderson. “Acceleration Techniques for Direct Use of CAD-Based Geometries in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport.” International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), 2009. http://mathematicsandcomputation.cowhosting.net/MC09/pdfs/202864.pdf.
  13. ↑ Wilson, Paul. "Paul P.H. Wilson Biography". CNERG: Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group. github.io. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  14. ↑ the PyNE Development Team, "PyNE: The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit." http://pyne.io. 2015.
  15. ↑ B. C. Kiedrowski, F. B. Brown, Wilson, “Adjoint-weighted tallies for k-eigenvalue calculations with continuous-energy Monte Carlo.” Nucl. Sci. Eng. 168, no. 3 (2011): doi:10.13182/NSE10-22.

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