Faculty & Staff
Nolan Hertel
Professor
Project Co-Leader - Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Nolan Hertel received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to accepting a position as Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, he was an Assistant and an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hertel is also involved in the measurement of neutron fields and doses in the vicinity of accelerator-based medical facilities and in the development of a personnel neutron dosimeter which will mimic the angular dependence of the newly recommended radiation protection quantity known as an effective dose. His past work in radiological assessment has included performing a health risk assessment for a mixed-waste incinerator, which was funded by the Westinghouse Savannah River Company. He continues to supervise work in radiological assessment related to the decommissioning of the Georgia Tech Nuclear Reactor. Dr. Hertel is also active in shielding research, particularly radiation skyshine, and in computation dosimetry topics such as the generation of dose conversion coefficients. Dr. Hertel was a Sam Nunn Faculty Fellow in the second year of the Program, and has continued to be actively involved as a participant in the nuclear nonproliferation research initiative.