- Department Head, Nuclear Engineering
- Sallie and Don Davis '61 Professor
- Division Director, Nuclear Engineering Division of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering and Multidisciplinary Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-2636
- FAX: 979-845-4161
- Email: nuen-dh@tamu.edu
- Office: AIEN M210F
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University – 1986
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University – 1983
- B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University – 1981
Research Interests
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- Materials for extreme nuclear environments
- Irradiation induced phase transformations
- Ion irradiation and plasma modification of materials
- Synthesis and properties of high strength nanolayered composites
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science – 2012
- Fellow, Materials Research Society – 2011
- Fellow, American Physical Society – 2006
- Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory – 2000
Awards & Honors
- Energy Frontier Research Center Award, Department of Energy – 2009
- Research and Development 100 Award for Plasma Source Ion Implantation for Enhancing Materials Surfaces – 1997
- Ranked fourth on the “Top 50 Most Published Authors at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)” – 1996-2005
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows Prize for extensive research in ion-solid interactions – 1995
- Alan Berman Research Publication Award, the Department of the Navy – 1990
Selected Publications
- Mechanical Response of He-Implanted Amorphous SiOC/Crystalline Fe Nanolaminates, A Zare, Q Su, J Gigax, TA Harriman, M Nastasi, L Shao, DA Lucca, Scientific Reports 9 (2019) 4759
- Resistance to Helium Bubble Formation in Amorphous SiOC/Crystalline Fe Nanocomposite, Qing Su, Tianyao Wang, Jonathan Gigax, Lin Shao, Michael Nastasi, Materials, 12 (2019) 93
- Rapid and damage-free outgassing of implanted helium from amorphous silicon oxycarbide, Qing Su, Hepeng Ding, Lloyd Price, Lin Shao, Jonathan A Hinks, Graeme Greaves, Stephen E Donnelly, Michael J Demkowicz, Michael Nastasi, Scientific Reports, 8 (2018) 5009.
- Radiation damage in nanostructured materials, Xinghang Zhang, Khalid Hattar, Youxing Chen, Lin Shao, Jin Li, Cheng Sun, Kaiyuan Yu, Nan Li, Mitra L Taheri, Haiyan Wang, Jian Wang, Michael Nastasi, Progress in Materials Science, 96 (2018) 217.
- Electrical and structural characterization of neutron irradiated amorphous boron carbide/silicon pn heterojunctions, Michael Nastasi, George Peterson, Qing Su, Yongqiang Wang, N.J. Ianno, Nicole Benker, Elena Echeverría, Andrew J. Yost, J.A. Kelber, Bin Dong, Peter A. Dowben, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B: Beam Interact. Mater. At., 432 (2018) 48.