She maintains a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where she spent 5 years as a staff scientist before joining UF. She received her PhD. in Materials Science & Engineering and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering at the Texas A&M University. Her current research interests include: nuclear fuels and materials, with emphasis on characterization and property evaluation; mechanical and thermal properties of materials; reactor irradiation; radiation damage in materials; ion implantation; kinetics; composites; nanostructured materials; and multi-scale simulation of nuclear fuel.