Eric Lang

Contact


Phone: 505-277-0772
Fax: 505-277-5433

Physical Address

Room Room 1100

Farris Engineering Center
Building # 122 on the UNM map

Mailing Address

MSC01 1120
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070

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Assistant Professor

Department of Nuclear Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Department

M.S. University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Department

B.S. University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, Engineering Physics

Biography

Dr. Eric Lang recently joined the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor. He came to UNM from the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign (Urbana, IL) where he received his MS and PhD degrees in the department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and went on to be a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories from September 2020-July 2022.

Teaching Interests

  • Nuclear Fusion Engineering
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Plasma-Material Interactions

Research Interests

  • Plasma-facing materials in fusion reactors
  • Structural materials in advanced nuclear systems
  • Ion beam damage of materials
  • In-situ characterization methods
  • Ion beam patterning of materials
  • Materials characterization
  • Materials in extreme environments
  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Structure, property, processing relationships for advanced materials