Graduate Student
Biography
Kenneth Sanders is a first-year Graduate Research Assistant in pursuit of his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas in May 2024, where he contributed to several projects which analyzed ceramic materials. He first assisted in solid-state synthesis and characterization of flexible ultra-high temperature ceramics for hypersonic vehicles. As an Undergraduate Research Fellow, he performed independent research to examine the structure of borosilicate glasses designed to capture atmospheric CO2 for climate change mitigation using an atomistic simulation approach. He earned an MSIPP summer internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he analyzed dissolution rates of various glass compositions based on International Simple Glass to assist in the development of a predictive structural model for nuclear waste immobilization applications.
At UT, Kenneth’s research deals with the analysis of ceramic material structure and resulting properties under combined extreme conditions, and particularly how local structural fluctuations might affect radiation-induced damage.
