Graduate Student
Biography
Savannah is a first-year graduate student at UTK, enrolled in the Nuclear Engineering program to attain a PhD. She holds a bachelor's degree in physics with a minor in Mathematics from Appalachian State University. Her prior research focused on optical trapping, during which she constructed a fully operational optical tweezer apparatus utilizing two distinct lasers to manipulate sub-microscopic particles. Savannah's current research encompasses the analysis of Raman spectroscopy and ion luminescence of pristine and irradiated GaN and AlN mixtures.