Benoit Forget

Associate Department Head

Professional Focus: 

  • Advanced computation
  • Advanced reactor design
  • Fission
  • Nuclear Safety

Other titles: 

Professor

DLC: 

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Education
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
MS, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2003
B.S., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2003 

Awards
Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, American Nuclear Society, 2013
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching
ANS Faculty/PIA Teaching Award

Research
Prof. Forget’s research interests are in the areas of computational reactor physics, radiative transport, and high performance computing. He is also the founder of the Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG).