Wang to serve on ANS division executive committee

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Yongqiang Wang

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Yongqiang Wang (Materials Science in Radiation and Dynamics Extremes, MST-8) has been elected to the Executive Committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Accelerator Applications Division. His three-year term begins in June.

Wang is director of the Ion Beam Materials Laboratory (IBML) and team leader for the Radiation Science Experimental Team in MST-8. He is also a Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies scientist in its in situ characterization and nanomechanics thrust.

An expert in irradiation materials research with energetic ion beams through ion-solid interactions, Wang’s research interests include irradiation stability of nanostructured materials, radiation tolerant nuclear materials, graphene synthesis through ion implantation, and materials characterization using ion beam analysis techniques. He currently leads an effort to develop a number of IBML’s unique research capabilities to advance fundamental radiation science research in support of CINT users and the DOE Basic Energy Science program’s Energy Frontier Research Center, FUTURE, the Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes.

Wang also leads the development of applied research in support of nuclear energy and fusion materials research at the lab. Wang’s applied research areas include ion irradiation and corrosion experiments, in situ positron annihilation spectroscopy under ion irradiation, and coupled plasma exposure and dual ion beam irradiation extremes for fusion plasma face materials research.  

He is an editor of the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms and serves on the editorial boards of the journal Materials and the Frontiers in Energy Research journal’s Nuclear Energy section. He is also a co-organizer of biennial, international Conference Series on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry.

Wang earned his doctoral degree in nuclear physics and technology from Lanzhou University, China, and joined the Laboratory in 2003. Before joining the lab, he worked at University of Minnesota, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Missouri State University.

As a member of the Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) executive committee, Wang’s responsibilities include advising the AAD management team about the division-sponsored conferences such as the international accelerator applications conference and topical ANS student conferences; helping develop strategies in enhancing cooperation/interactions with other ANS divisions and recruiting new members to the AAD; and dealing with other emerging issues in the division.  

The Accelerator Applications Division promotes the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, and utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.