Hello! My name is Matthew S. Emerson.
I'm a Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Iowa in the United States.
It seems I have a pretty different background than most that I've read on this board, but I'm excited to listen, learn, and share!
My professional career started by in my undergrad in 2016, when I performed high energy x-ray scattering experiments at Argonne National Lab (ANL), which led me toward my current work.
My current work is in a large collaborative group for the US. Department of Energy (DOE) called Molten Salts in Extreme Environments (MSEE) which is hosted by Brookhaven National Lab (BNL). This group aims to understand fundamental properties of molten salts in a nuclear reactor that replaces the coolant water with a molten salt, and the solid uranium fuel with a molten salt fuel mixture that would have dissolved uranium in it at high temperature, but low pressure.
The last 3 years of grad school, I've been performing simulations of molten chloride salts (NaCl, MgCl2, etc.) and ionic liquids (salts that are liquid around room temperature to 100C).
In the last 5 years, i've written multiple high performance codes using MPI and CUDA parallelization in C++.
I am also fluent in F90, F77, Bash, Python (I <3 Signac), and am less than natively fluent in Java.
I try to study every aspect of building, designing, and coding computers, and I look forward to keep on learning in this new community and make new friends. I'm happy to share anything i know (that i am allowed to share) in the process.
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Hello! My name is Matthew S. Emerson.
I'm a Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Iowa in the United States.
It seems I have a pretty different background than most that I've read on this board, but I'm excited to listen, learn, and share!
My professional career started by in my undergrad in 2016, when I performed high energy x-ray scattering experiments at Argonne National Lab (ANL), which led me toward my current work.
My current work is in a large collaborative group for the US. Department of Energy (DOE) called Molten Salts in Extreme Environments (MSEE) which is hosted by Brookhaven National Lab (BNL). This group aims to understand fundamental properties of molten salts in a nuclear reactor that replaces the coolant water with a molten salt, and the solid uranium fuel with a molten salt fuel mixture that would have dissolved uranium in it at high temperature, but low pressure.
The last 3 years of grad school, I've been performing simulations of molten chloride salts (NaCl, MgCl2, etc.) and ionic liquids (salts that are liquid around room temperature to 100C).
In the last 5 years, i've written multiple high performance codes using MPI and CUDA parallelization in C++.
I am also fluent in F90, F77, Bash, Python (I <3 Signac), and am less than natively fluent in Java.
I try to study every aspect of building, designing, and coding computers, and I look forward to keep on learning in this new community and make new friends. I'm happy to share anything i know (that i am allowed to share) in the process.