Researcher

 

Emmanuel Perez holds a position as a Materials Engineer specializing in microstructural development and chemical interactions between fresh fuels and their respective cladding materials. He is the Instrument Scientist for CAES and currently is the technical lead scientist for two university projects. He received a bachelor’s of engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Prior to obtaining his MS degree, he held a position for seven years as a Thermal and Mechanical Engineer at a Diversified Heat Transfer, Inc., where he was tasked with the design and manufacture of industrial heat transfer equipment.
Emmanuel has 13 years of experience operating scanning electron microscopes (SEM), 8 years of operational experience with Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA), 11 years of operational experience with sample preparation via Focused Ion Beam (FIB), and 11 years operational experience in characterization via Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).