Md Ali Muntaha

Md Ali Muntaha earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2016. He began his doctoral studies in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Michael Tonks at the University of Florida, where he pursued a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. His research focused on the multi-physics and multi-scale modeling of fission gas release in UO₂ nuclear fuel, employing phase-field methods, cluster dynamics, and advanced coupling techniques using the MOOSE framework. During his Ph.D., he collaborated with national laboratories such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, contributing to the development of models for irradiation-assisted grain growth and multiscale fission gas simulations. He defended his dissertation in August 2023. In October 2023, Dr. Muntaha joined Dr. Janelle Wharry’s research group at Purdue University as a postdoctoral research assistant, where he applied phase-field modeling to study fatigue behavior in porous titanium. He later served as a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, investigating irradiation-induced phase transformations in structural ceramics. Currently, Dr. Muntaha is a postdoctoral researcher at Idaho National Laboratory, working on modeling TRISO fuel behavior in advanced gas-cooled reactors using the BISON code. His work continues to bridge computational modeling with experimental insights, contributing to the advancement of nuclear materials research.