Prof. Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering and current department chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics. His research interests focus on developing improved tools for computational modeling of complex nuclear energy systems, with applications in radiation shielding, nuclear waste management, nuclear non-proliferation and energy policy. He has led the development of a number of software tools useful for fusion system analysis, including ALARA, DAGMC, PyNE, ParaStell, and Cyclus.

He studied in the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering (of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), earning his Dr.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998, and completed his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.