Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL
Richland, Washington, United States
Dr. Kruska a scientist in the Reactor Materials and Mechanical Designs group at PNNL since 2015 studying corrosion, ageing and irradiation effects in materials relevant to current and future nuclear reactors. Previously she has been a post-doctoral research associate at PNNL since 2014 studying the solidification and heat-treatment of AZ91 Mg alloys for automotive components with a variety of electron microscopy techniques including dynamical TEM (DTEM). She received her diploma in Physics from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany in 2008 where she worked in the group for atomic and molecular physics on surfaces using STM to study reconstructions of the SrTiO3 surface. Her PhD (2012) and a subsequent post-doctoral assignment (2012 – 2013) at the Department of Materials, Oxford University, UK, focused on stress corrosion cracking mechanisms in stainless steels and Ni alloys. She became an expert in a wide range of nanoanalysis techniques, from EBSD and EDX in the SEM, FIB, EELS and EFTEM in the (S)TEM to laser-assisted APT.
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Application of atom probe tomography to study corrosion of nuclear materials
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM US CST