James R Torres

Bio

Early career instrument scientist serving the Multimodal Advanced Radiography Station at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Trained as an experimental condensed matter physicist with a specialization in neutron scattering techniques. Research interests include nuclear materials development and characterization, hydrogen diffusion phenomena under extreme conditions, applications of physical acoustics, and instrumentation & hardware development.

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022 - 2023)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2019 - 2021)
• Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Missouri (2014 - 2019)
• Undergraduate Research Assistant at Rowan University (2014)

Awards

• 2023 Large-team Distinguished Performance Award at Los Alamos National Laboratory (August 2023)
• 2019 University of Missouri Boain Ph.D. Dissertation Award (November 2019)
• "Best Student Poster" awards (2018 and 2019)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate Opportunity (GO!) Fellowship (2017 - 2019)
• Excellence in Electron Microscopy at the University of Missouri Electron Microscopy Core (2017)
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) (2014 - 2017)
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2014)

Education

• Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics, University of Missouri, July 2019
• M.S. Condensed Matter Physics, University of Missouri, May 2016
• B.S. Physics, Rowan University, May 2014

Professional Affiliations

• Materials Research Society
• Acoustical Society of America
• Neutron Scattering Society of America
• American Nuclear Society

Specialized Equipment

Multimodal Advanced Radiography Station (MARS) at the High-Flux Isotope Reactor

Publications

Other Publications