Katy Huff

Blue Waters Associate Professor and Director, Advanced Reactor Fuel Cycles Laboratory · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Quick answer: Katy Huff is Blue Waters Associate Professor and Director, Advanced Reactor Fuel Cycles Laboratory at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Katy Huff shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ Post-Doctoral Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/postdoc/ Graduate Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/grad/ Undergraduate Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/ugrad/

Research interests

Molten Salt Reactors, High-Temperature Gas Reactors, Micro-Reactors, Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactors Scientific computing education Repository system performance modeling Open & reproducible scientific computing Computational methods for optimization and prediction Advanced data analysis for radioisotope identification Coupled multi-physics simulation Reactor neutronics and kinetics Nuclear fuel cycle simulation Advanced nuclear reactor modeling and simulation

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2026] S. G. Dotson, M. Munk, and K. D. Huff. Demonstrating the Osier framework for energy system and nuclear fuel cycle optimization. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 230:112151, June 2026. [2026] A. M. Bachmann, Z. Richter, K. D. Huff, and M. Munk. Effects of Uranium Impurities in Downblended HEU on HTGR Performance. Nuclear Technology, 0(0):1-19, Jan. 2026. [2025] L. Seifert, S. Shahbazi, S. Richards, M. Munk, and K. Huff. Accuracy of the Scaled Flux Method for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Transmutation in Flowing-Fuel Molten Salt Reactors. Nuclear Science and Engineering, 0(0):1-13, Sept. 2025. [2025] L. Seifert, B. Betzler, W. Wieselquist, M. Jessee, M. Munk, and K. Huff. Delayed Neutron Precursor Group Parameter and Spectra Generation from Fast Fission of 235U in SCALE. Nuclear Science and En

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