Dr. Phillips is a research scientist in the Pyrochemistry and Molten Salt Systems department at Idaho National Laboratory. His work currently focuses on chemistry and materials science in molten salt systems, with an emphasis on nuclear energy applications. His research interests involve natural circulation molten salt flow loops to understand corrosion, chemistry controls and thermal hydraulics in molten salt reactors, irradiation testing of molten salts, salt synthesis, purification, and analysis methods, and pyrometallurgical reprocessing of used nuclear fuel. He has previously used spectroscopic techniques to probe the molecular and electronic structure of molten salts and has a background in corrosion and materials science for high temperature systems. He received his B.S. (2014), M.S. (2015), and Ph.D. (2019) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.