Geeta Kumari joined ORNL in 2023 as Post-doctoral Research
Associate in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division. She earned her bachelor’s
degree with a major in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the National
Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, India in the summer of 2016. After
that, she joined Michigan State University and Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras, India to earn a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering, and
she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in spring 2023. Geeta Kumari has an extensive experience in designing,
conducting, and analyzing experiments to study the microstructure-property-correlation
of gamma prime strengthened Ni-based superalloy, primarily using scanning
electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy.
Research Interests
- Heat-treatment and metallography
- Microstructural characterization of metals and alloys
- Advanced alloy development for extreme environment applications
- Additive manufacturing: Laser-powder bed fusion,
binder jet printing
