Second double slam for SUNRISE students at the Sigvard Eklund Prize ceremony

Big congratulations to Dr. Ebrahim Mansouri, Ida Andersson Neretnieks, and Jonas Planck for winning the Sigvard Eklund Prize for the best PhD thesis (Ebrahim) and best BSc thesis (Ida and Jonas) in Nuclear Engineering in Sweden 2024. The Prize is awarded by SKC - Swedish Centre for Nuclear Technology to the best PhD, MSc and BSc theses in Sweden each year.
Our warmest congratulations to Dr Ebrahim Mansouri, Ida Andersson Neretnieks and Jonas Planck for winning the Sigvard Eklund Prize for the best PhD thesis (Ebrahim) and best BSc thesis (Ida and Jonas) in Nuclear Engineering in Sweden 2024. The Prize is awarded by SKC - Swedish Centre for Nuclear Technology to the best PhD, MSc and BSc theses in Sweden each year.
Ebrahim Mansouri defended his thesis titled "Atomistic modelling of irradiation-induced microstructure evolution in Fe alloys" on June 14 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He worked on truly ground breaking method development for radiation damage studies in metals and steels, with the first ever direct quantum mechanically-driven microstructure evolution modelling of damage in iron and iron alloys. He has to date three published papers in Phys. Rev. Mater., Comp. Mater. Sci. and Mater. Res. Lett., and more are forthcoming soon.
Ida Andersson Neretnieks and Jonas Planck defended their BSc thesis titled "Simulation of radiation damage in uranium nitride" on May 24 at KTH. They modified and applied the direct damage evolution method developed for metal alloys and used it to study irradiation response in advanced fuels. Their findings will be published soon. They were supervised by Qiuguo Yang, Ebrahim Mansouri and Pär Olsson, and worked in collaboration with Aymeric Le Harivel. The simulations have been used to explain the experimental work performed and published in SUNRISE by Maria Giamouridou, Elina Charatsidou et al.
It is truly fantastic to be privileged to work with such brilliant and motivated students and researchers, and we am sure these three have excellent things in store for the future!
This work was performed in the SUNRISE Centre kindly funded by Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, as well as in collaboration The Swedish Research Council and with EUROfusion under the IREMEV project.
