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James Torres

Neutron Imaging Instrument Scientist

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.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022 - 2023)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at 91°µÍø (2019 - 2021)
  • Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Missouri (2014 - 2019)
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Rowan University (2014)
  • 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)
  • 91°µÍø 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)
  • 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
  • Materials Research Society
  • Acoustical Society of America
  • Neutron Scattering Society of America
  • American Nuclear Society

Report
September 2023

Report
January 2023

Journal: Physical Review B
September 2022

Report
September 2022

Report
August 2022

Journal: AIP Advances
June 2022

Journal: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
July 2021

Neutron Scattering and Microscopy Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of Water Near a Nanostructured Hydrophilic Copper Oxide Surface

Dissertation
2019

Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
January 2019

Journal: Europhysics Letters
August 2018