Dr. Andrea Jokisaari is a computational materials scientist in the Irradiated Fuels and Materials Department of Idaho National Laboratory.  Since 2021, she joined the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies program within the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy.  In AMMT, she is the Technical Area Lead for Environmental Effects and spearheads the program’s Capability and Transformative Research activities.  Prior to joining INL in 2018, she earned her Ph.D and M.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and her B.S. in Ceramics and Materials Engineering at Clemson University.  Her research interests focus on advancing the state of the art in predicting materials performance evolution under irradiation using physics-based modeling, machine learning, and advanced experimental techniques, especially for nuclear fuels and structural materials.