Al Casagranda, Ph.D.
Computational Scientist
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Biography: Al Casagranda is a computational scientist in the Fuel Modeling and Simulation Department at INL. He has degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University (B.S. – 1986, M.S. – 1988) and Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. – 1993). He has used and developed finite element software for over 20 years in a variety of R&D fields including powder metallurgy, metal forming, tire analysis and ASME Section III code applications. Since joining INL in 2015, he has worked as a developer on the BISON fuel performance code.
​Ph.D., Materials Science - University of California, Santa Barbara
M.S., Nuclear Engineering - Purdue University
B.S., Nuclear Engineering - Purdue University