Office: 122-A Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: (979) 862-2033
E-mail: ragusa@ne.tamu.edu

Research Areas:
High performance computing applied to nuclear engineering and science, numerical methods applied to neutron transport, multiphysics coupling and reactor transients analysis, reactor core and fuel assembly modeling and optimization, and neutron transport inverse problems.

Paid Research assistant positions are available !!!
Please contact me for further information: ragusa@ne.tamu.edu


Education:
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 2002; M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1996; Diplôme d'ingénieur, Génie Nucléaire, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble, France, 1996.

Professional Experience:
2004 – Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University; 2001 - 2004 – Research Engineer at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) of Saclay, France, in the Applied Mathematics and Reactor Studies Service (SERMA); 2001 – Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University; 1998 - 2000 – Research Fellow, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) of Saclay, France, in the Applied Mathematics and Reactor Studies Service (SERMA); 1997 – Military service as a Research Fellow, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) of Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France.