Woodruff Professor
Director, Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs
G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy Appointment)
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (Courtesy Appointment)
Georgia Institute of Technology
770 State St.
Boggs Chemistry Building 3-44C
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
(404) 385-0419erickson@gatech.edu | lanns.gatech.edu | eti.gatech.edu
BIO:
Prof. Anna Erickson earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2011, respectively. She is a Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and an adjunct professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Erickson is the leader of the Laboratory for Advanced Nonproliferation and Safety, which focuses on bridging a critical gap between the reactor engineering and nuclear nonproliferation communities by integrating theoretical reactor analysis and design and experimental detection. Prior to Georgia Tech, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Rare Event Detection group and Stewardship Science Graduate Fellow. Prof. Erickson is the Director of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, a which is composed of fourteen institutions of higher education (IHE) and twelve national laboratories with an objective to create a research and education environment to support cross-cutting technologies for nuclear nonproliferation, a $25M grant supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration since 2019. She is a co-author of Active Interrogation in Nuclear Security: Science, Technology, and Systems, published by Nature Springer in 2018, and over a hundred of journal publications, conference proceedings and presentations.
RESEARCH:
Dr. Erickson’s primary focus is on advanced detector design and analysis, especially as applied to safety and non-proliferation. She is involved in fast reactor remote monitoring using antineutrinos, fuel characterization through fission product signatures for non-proliferation applications, and non-traditional detector design and characterization, including Cherenkov counters and robust detectors. Her teaching interests are in advanced experimental detection for reactor and nuclear nonproliferation applications, radiation dosimetry and fast reactor analysis.