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Sophie Blondel

Research Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee

Research Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee Sophie Blondel received her BSc from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and her MS from Université Paris Diderot (France), both in physics. After finishing her PhD in particle physics in 2013 from Université Paris-Sud (France), she started at ORNL as a postdoctoral research associate to work on code development for Xolotl within a DOE SciDAC project. She has since become the lead developer for Xolotl and joined the Nuclear Engineering department at the University of Tennessee. She was a visiting academic fellow at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord in April 2022.