Field
of Specialization:
- Physical metallurgy
of structural materials; ion and neutron irradiation effects on
the microstructure, physical and mechanical properties of metals
and ceramics; transmission electron microscopy; fusion reactor materials
studies; ion beam surface modification of materials
Education:
- University
of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- PhD, Nuclear
Engineering (minor in Physics) 5/85
- MS, Nuclear
Engineering 5/82
- MS, Materials
Science 5/85
- BS, Nuclear
Engineering 5/80
Employment History:
- 3/06 – present: Director, ORNL Materials Science and Technology Division. Provide technical and administrative leadership for multi-program research activities on a broad range of fundamental and applied materials R&D programs.
- 4/04 – present: ORNL Corporate Fellow
- 2/06: Director, ORNL Metals and Ceramics Division
- 7/01 – 1/06: Leader, Nuclear Materials Science and Technology group (37 staff & postdocs plus 7 on-site guests, consultants and students). Technical and administrative leadership for multi-program research on unirradiated and irradiated structural materials, fusion reactor materials, fissile materials, reactor pressure vessel steels, and ceramic materials.
- 8/99 – 3/06: Manager, ORNL fusion materials program
- 2004 – 12/05: Manager, ORNL space reactor materials programs
- 6/85 – 3/04: Research Staff Member, Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab. Effects of thermomechanical processing and irradiation on the microstructure, physical and mechanical properties of copper alloys, austenitic stainless steel, vanadium alloys, ceramic insulators, and SiC/SiC structural ceramics (fusion reactor materials).
- 7/2003: Visiting scientist, Materials Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark. Electron microscopy of neutron irradiated Fe after tensile deformation.
- 7/91 – 4/92: Visiting scientist, Solid State Physics Division, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Designed and built a target chamber for making in-situ electrical conductivity measurements on ceramic insulators during energetic ion irradiation
- 10/91: Visiting scientist, Prometey Central Research Institute for Structural Materials and Efremov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. Electron microscopy of ion irradiated high strength copper alloys.
- 4/91 – 7/91: Visiting scientist, Materials Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark. Electron microscopy of Cu alloys irradiated with 750 MeV protons and fission neutrons.
- 6/81 – 9/81 & 6/80-9/80: Student researcher, E Division (Physics), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Measurement of charged particle production cross sections of high energy neutrons; 14 MeV neutron irradiation experiment on Cu alloys (electrical resistivity, microstructure).
Honors and Awards:
- ORNL Corporate Fellow (2004)
- Fellow, ASM International (2003)
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society (2001)
- ORNL Technical Achievement (R&D Accomplishment) Award (1991, 1997, 1999, 2002)
- American Nuclear Society Materials Science & Technology Division Literary Award (coauthor, 1996)
- ORNL Sustained Achievement Award, 1995; ORNL World Class Teamwork Award (1996)
- American Ceramic Society Nucl. & Environ. Technology Division Best Paper Award (1994-1995)
- Fusion Power Associates Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award (1992)
- ORNL Eugene P. Wigner Fellow (1985-1987)
- Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi
- Univ. Wisconsin Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Award (1985)
Professional Societies and Activities:
- ASM International (chair, ASM/TMS Nuclear Materials committee 2003-2005; committee member 1987-present), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, American Nuclear Society (Member, Executive Committee of Materials Science & Technology Division 2003-2006)
- Chair, International Energy Agency Executive Committee for the Implementing Agreement on a Programme of Research and Development on Fusion Reactor Materials (Dec. 2003-present)
- Chair, US DOE Fusion Materials Sciences Steering Committee (2000-present)
- Task leader (reactor materials) for DOE/NASA Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter space reactor project (2003-2004)
- Member, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) advisory panel on Fusion Energy Development Path, (Oct. 2002-June 2003)
- Member, DOE FESAC advisory panel on 10 year R&D priorities (Oct. 2003-Nov. 2004)
- Member, Advanced Fuels Cladding Initiative/Gen IV Materials Working Group (2004-present)
- Member, Commissariat A L’Energie Atomique (CEA) Visiting Committee on R&D for Future Nuclear Reactors (May 2005)
- Member, Grand Accelerateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL) Scientific Council Interdisciplinary Research Evaluation committee, Universite de Caen, France (February 2006)
Journal Editorial Advisory Boards:
- Journal of ASTM International (associate editor, 2003-2006); Materials Science Foundations; Fusion Science & Technology
Publications (available upon request):
- More than 200 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed scientific articles in journals or conference proceedings. In addition, more than 200 limited-distribution reports and presentations at workshops or seminars have been prepared.
Conference organization:
Chair or co-chair of 8 international symposia held in conjunction with the American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, American Nuclear Society, and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society annual meetings; program or advisory committee member for over 19 other international conferences; program chair for 9th Intern. Conf. on Fusion Reactor Materials, Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 10-15, 1999; co-organizer of NATO International School on Radiation Effects in Solids, Erice, Italy, July, 2004
- G.W. Hollenberg, S.J. Zinkle and I.J. Hastings, Eds., 4th American Ceramic Society Symposium on "Fabrication and Properties of Ceramics for Fusion Energy", Indianapolis, Indiana, April 24-28, 1994, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 219 (1995) 1-294.
- I.M. Robertson, L.E. Rehn, S.J. Zinkle, and W.J. Phythian, Eds., Materials Research Society Symposium on "Microstructure of Irradiated Materials", Boston, MA, November 28-December 2, 1994, Materials Research Society Symp. Proc. Vol. 373 (1995) 571 pp.
- S.J. Zinkle, R.C. Ewing and C.J. McHargue, chairmen, Symposium on "Radiation Effects in Nonmetals", 124th Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Las Vegas, NV, February 13-14, 1995
- S.J. Zinkle, C.H. Henager, Jr. and K.E. Sickafus, Eds., 5th American Ceramic Society Symposium on "Fabrication and Properties of Ceramics for Fusion Energy and Other High Radiation Environments", Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5-7, 1997, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 253 (1998) 1-234.
- S.J. Zinkle, G.E. Lucas, R.C. Ewing and J.S. Williams, Eds., Materials Research Society Symposium on "Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials", Boston, MA, November 30-December 4, 1998, proceedings published as MRS Symp. Proc. Vol. 540 (735 pp.)
- S.J. Zinkle, M. Singh, W.J. Weber and A. Kohyama, Eds.., 6th American Ceramic Society Symposium on "Fabrication and Properties of Ceramics for Fusion Energy and Other High Radiation Environments", St. Louis, MO, April 30-May 3, 2000, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 289 (2001) 1-218.
- K.E. Sickafus, S.J. Zinkle and E. Kotomin, NATO International School on Radiation Effects in Solids, July 17-29, 2004, Erice, Sicily, Italy, lecture manuscripts to be published by Springer.
- D.J. Senor, B.D. Wirth, R. Hanrahan, S.J. Zinkle, M. Uz, E. Ohriner and B. Cockeram, Chairs, “Space Reactor Fuels and Materials”, Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, San Antonio, TX, March 12-16, 2006, proceedings to be published in Journal of Nuclear Materials.
Conference Committee
Memberships:
- Member, Program committee, 5th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Clearwater, FL, November 17-22, 1991, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 191-194 (1992) 1-1506.
- Member, Program committee, 9th International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 14-19, 1997, proceedings published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 141 (1998) 1-762.
- Member, Technical program committee, 8th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Sendai, Japan, October 26-31, 1997, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 258-263 (1998) 1-2187.
- Member, Program committee, 5th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, Rome, Italy, September 19-24, 1999, proceedings published in Fusion Engineering & Design 49-50 (2000) 1-995 and 51-52 (2000) 1-1167.
- Chair, Technical program committee, 9th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 10-15, 1999, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 283-287 (2000) 1-1556.
- Member, Technical Program committee, American Nuclear Society’s 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Park City, Utah, October 15-19, 2000, proceedings published in Fusion Technology 39, no. 2, part 2 (2001) 1-1166.
- Member, International Advisory committee, 10th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Baden-Baden, Germany, October 14-19, 2001, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 307-311 (2002) 1-1790.
- Member, Program Committee, 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, San Diego, CA, April, 2002, proceedings published in Fusion Engineering & Design 61-62 (2002) 1-828 and 63-64 (2002) 1-700.
- Member, International Advisory Committee of Section J (Ceramics for Electrochemical, Chemical, Environmental and Nuclear Applications) of the 10th International Ceramics Congress / International Conferences on Materials and Technologies (CIMTEC), Pisa, Italy, July 1-6, 2002, proceedings published by Techna, Faenza, Italy (2003).
- Member, International Advisory committee, 11th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Kyoto, Japan, December 7-12, 2003, proceedings published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 329-333 (2004) .
- Session organizer/chair, Space Technology and Applications International Forum-STAIF 2004, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 8-12, 2004, proceedings published by Amer. Inst. of Physics (AIP Conf. Proc. vol. 699).
- Session organizer, International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2004 American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 13-17, 2004, conference proceedings published by ANS.
- Member, Technical Program committee, American Nuclear Society’s 16th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Madison, WI, September 14-16, 2004, proceedings published in Fusion Science and Technology 47 (2005).
- Member, International Advisory Committee, 2nd International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 12-15, 2004, proceedings published by UCLA
- Session organizer (3 sessions), Space Nuclear Conference 2005, Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2005 American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 5-9, 2005, conference proceedings published by ANS.
- Chair, International Advisory committee, 12th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Santa Barbara, California, December 4-9, 2005, proceedings to be published in Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Member, International Advisory Committee of Section J (Ceramics for Electrochemical, Chemical, Energy, Environmental and Refractory Applications) of the 11th International Ceramics Congress / International Conferences on Materials and Technologies (CIMTEC), Acireale, Sicily, Italy, June 4-9, 2006, proceedings to be published by Techna, Faenza, Italy (2006).
- Technical program cochair, International Conference on Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors, Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2006 American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, June 4-8 2006, conference proceedings to be published by ANS.
- Member, International Advisory Committee, 3rd International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 18-22, 2006
- Member, Technical Program committee, American Nuclear Society’s 17th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Albuquerque, NM, November 13-16, 2006, proceedings to be published in Fusion Science and Technology.
- Member, International Scientific Committee, “International Advanced School on Materials Issues for Generation IV systems: status, open questions and challenges", Cargese, Corsica, France, Sept. 24 – Oct. 6, 2007.
Journal Editorial Advisory Boards:
- Journal of ASTM International (associate editor) 2003-2006
- Materials Science Foundations
- Fusion Science & Technology
Other Advisory Panels:
- Member, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) advisory panel on Fusion Energy Development Path, (Oct. 2002-June 2003)
- Member, DOE FESAC advisory panel on 10 year R&D priorities (Oct. 2003-Nov. 2004)
- Member, Advanced Fuels Cladding Initiative/Gen IV Materials Working Group (2004-present)
- Member, Commissariat A L’Energie Atomique (CEA) Visiting Committee on R&D for Future Nuclear Reactors, Cadarache, France (May 2005)
- Member, Grand Accelerateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL) Scientific Council Interdisciplinary Research Evaluation committee, Universite de Caen, France (February 2006)
- Advisory committee, North Carolina State University Materials Science and Engineering Department (2006-present)
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