Bio

Grant Spence is a visiting research fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-proliferation in Vienna, Austria, and a postdoctoral research associate at NSSPI.He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. Grant's Masters work involved creating the proof-of-concept for a directionally sensitive neutron detector using boron carbide. In his dissertation work he developed a Monte Carlo burnup code capable of systematic and stochastic uncertainty quantification. His research interests include nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear weapons disarmament verification technologies, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Monte Carlo based reactor simulations, and uncertainty quantification and propagation