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Rajni Chahal, Ph.D.

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Contact Information

Name:

Rajni  Chahal, Ph.D.

Title:

Assistant Professor

Department:

Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Email Address:

rchahal@tntech.edu

Phone:

Office:

Brown Hall (BRWN) 316

RESEARCH AREAS AND INTERESTS

  • Molten salts for nuclear energy
  • Polymers, Polymer composites
  • Multiscale modeling and simulation
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT)
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Finite Element Method
  • Enhanced sampling approaches
  • Trustworthy AI/ML for materials
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • High-performance computing

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab (2022-2025)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell (2021-2022)
  • Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington (2015-2020)

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