Robert Zedric

Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Robert Zedric

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NSSPI Graduate
Nuclear Engineering

Ph.D., 2022

Office: AIEN A250
Research Group: Safeguards Systems Analysis and Instrumentation

Short Bio:

Robert Zedric graduated in Fall 2022 with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering under advisors Dr. Sunil Chirayath and Dr. Craig Marianno. As a NSSPI Ph.D. student, Zedric used particle accelerators to study radiation detectors and their resilience to radiation-induced damage. His dissertation work was a continuation of research that he began at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2015. During a year-long internship there, he found that a certain type of radiation detector can benefit in performance when injected with high energy protons. He then assembled a beam line at the Texas A&M nuclear engineering accelerator laboratory to study this further. Zedric came to Texas A&M in 2012 from the Missouri University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor’s in Nuclear Engineering. He has also spent summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He recently completed a one year assignment in Washington, DC as an NNSA Graduate Program (NGFP) Fellow and had studied at Texas A&M under the support of the Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Safeguards (NNIS) Fellowship Program. Upon graduation, he joined Sandia National Laboratories as a staff scientist where he researches the damaging effects of radiation on electronics.

NSSPI Publications:

  1. R. Zedric, "Defect-Enhanced Charge Multiplication in an Irradiated Avalanche Photodiode", Ph.D. Dissertation, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2022).

  2. R.M. Zedric, C.M. Marianno, S.S. Chirayath, Y. Diawara, and I. Darby , "The Effect of Irradiation Damage on the Charge Collection Efficiency of Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes", IEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 69, 2 (2022).

  3. R.M. Zedric, S.S. Chirayath, C.M. Marianno, Y. Diawara, N. Skukan, "Bias-dependent Displacement Damage Effects in a Silicon Avalanche Photodiode", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B. 507 (2021).

  4. Robert M. Zedric, Scott L. Stewart, Blake A. Palles, Timothy W. Jacomb-Hood, Stephen B. Gerlt, David A. Vermillion, Corey Keith, Marlene Bencomo., "Top Things to Know About Special Nuclear Material", INMM 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, California, 12-16 July 2015.

  5. N. Quintero, R. Khraisat, R. Elmore, J. Erchinger, M. Shah, S. Gerlt, R Zedric, M.T. Bani Ahmad, Z. Al-Taher, "Comparative Analysis of 3S Curriculum", 55th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Atlanta, Georgia, 20-14 July 2014.

  6. R.M. Zedric, D. Henzlova, W. Charlton, S. Tobin, J. Hendricks, H. Trellue. , "Monte Carlo Modeling of the Californium-Interrogation with Prompt Neutron (CIPN) Device for Spent Nuclear Fuel Measurements", 55th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Atlanta, Georgia, 20-14 July 2014.

  7. S.L. Stewart, N. Quintero, J. Erchinger, M. Shah, S. Gerlt, R. Zedric, R. Elmore, T.C. Pope, R. Coogan, "The Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Non-Destructive Assay", 55th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Atlanta, Georgia, 20-14 July 2014.