Post doctoral scholar

Education & Employment


Unversity of South Carolina

Post Doctoral Scholar

Columbia, SC, 2016 - present

University of Texas - Austin

PhD. Mechanical Engineering: Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Austin, TX, 2012 - 2015
  • Adviser: Erich A. Schneider
  • Disseration: Novel Methods for Generalizing Nuclear Fuel Cycle Design, and Fuel Burnup Modeling.

University of Texas - Austin

M.S. Mechanical Engineering: Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Austin, TX, 2010 - 2012
  • Adviser: Erich A. Schneider
  • Thesis: The Effects of Isotopic Separation on Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycles

Jim Moody Associates

Consultant

Lycoming, NY, 2009 - 2011
  • Consulting risk assessment group for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Energy Station

State University of New York at Buffalo

B.S. Physics.

Buffalo, NY, 2005 - 2009
  • Physics Major with Minors in Mathematics and Education

Projects


Cyclus


Agent-Based Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulator
  • Community Manager & Core Developer: July 2017 - present
  • Core Developer: February 2016 - June 2017
  • UI Development: May 2012 - June 2015

PyNE


The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit
  • Developer: April 2011 - present

Rickshaw


An automated driver for Cyclus
  • Developer: January 2017 - present

Publications

[Download bibtex]

  1. Robert Flanagan, and Anthony Scopatz. "Characteristic Reactor Cross Section Generation with XSgen". Global 2017. Seoul, Korea Sept 2017
  2. Anthony Scopatz, and Robert Flanagan. "Request Callbacks in the Cyclus Dynamic Resource Exchange". Global 2017. Seoul, Korea Sept 2017
  3. Kathryn D. Huff, 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 nuclear fuel cycle simulation framework". Advances in Engineering Software . 94 p. 46 - 59 (2016) link doi
  4. Schneider, Erich, Flanagan, Robert, Bagdatlioglu, Cem, and Scopatz, Anthony. "An Integrated Fuel Depletion Calculator for Fuel Cycle Options Analysis". . (2016)
  5. Anthony M. Scopatz, Matthew J. Gidden, Robert W. Carlsen, Robert R. Flanagan, Kathryn D. Huff, Meghan B. McGarry, Arrielle C. Opotowsky, Olzhas Rakhimov, Zach Welch, and Paul P. H. Wilson. "Cyclus Archetypes". CoRR . abs/1511.05619 (2015) link

Memberships


American Nuclear Society

Member, 2010 - present

Skills


Programming Languages

  • Expert: Java
  • Intermediate: C++, Python

Markup Languages

  • Expert: HTML, CSS

Specialized Software

  • Intermediate: Bash