Hatice Akkurt is a research and development staff member in the Radiation Transport and Criticality (RTC) Group of the Nuclear Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. She received a second M.S. degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and also received her Ph.D. in the nuclear engineering and radiological sciences from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her first M.S. thesis research involved simulation of a PWR and improvement of the control model with neutral networks and second M.S. thesis research involved criticality calculations for mixed oxide fuels for Fissile Material Disposition Program. Her Ph.D. work focused on the composition problem for large homogeneous samples. After graduate school, Dr. Akkurt worked for Princeton Technology Center, Schlumberger, on oil well logging problems. She joined the RTC Group in July 2005 and has been involved in a variety of research and analysis activities, including phantom modeling for radiation dose assessment and composition problem for heterogeneous layered samples. Her research interests include deterministic and Monte Carlo transport methods, numerical methods, inverse problems, radiation detection and measurements, criticality safety, and radiation shielding. She is an active member of the American Nuclear Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Sigma Xi.