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The University of South Carolina has appointed Dan Gabriel Cacuci to be professor of nuclear engineering, and holder of the first of two endowed chairs in the nuclear sciences, according to Tony Ambler, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing.

The appointment is part of a larger effort in the Midlands, through its new NuHub collaboration, to make the region a globally recognized center in nuclear sciences, engineering and manufacturing.

Cacuci earned his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Columbia University in 1978.

His research has, among other things, sought to analyze and predict the operations of large physical and engineering systems.

Cacuci’s teaching and research experience has included appointments at the University of Tennessee, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, the French National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies in Paris, the University of Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

His research and management experience at national research centers includes senior section head at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, institute director at the Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe in Germany, and scientific director of the Nuclear Energy Directorate/Sector, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in France....

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