Dr. Jacy K. Conrad is a physical chemist working as a Staff Scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Center for Radiation Chemistry Research (CR2). Prior to this position, she spent two years at INL working as a Russell L. Heath Distinguished Postdoctoral Researcher. 

Dr. Conrad completed her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her thesis, entitled 'Deuterium isotope effects on acid ionization and metal oxide hydrolysis under hydrothermal conditions' focused on measuring the chemistry of high temperature aqueous systems and developing thermodynamic models of their behavior. As a part of her Ph.D. research, Dr. Conrad spent a one year working in the Reactor Chemistry and Corrosion branch at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor of Science with Combined Honours in Chemistry and Physics and Certificate in the Computing Sciences from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

Dr. Conrad's research interests are in understanding how radiolytic processes result in the degradation of a variety of materials and solutions. She uses short timescale pulsed electron accelerators and long term steady-state irradiation experiments to measure and understand the fundamental radiation-induced process that dictate the reactivity, solubility, speciation and complexation of matter. Using these experimental inputs, Dr. Conrad develops kinetic computer models to predict the behavior of chemical species under irradiation. In-depth knowledge of these processes is integral for evaluating the performance of materials involved in a nuclear fuel cycle, e.g., corrosion of nuclear reactor materials, extent of extraction in used nuclear fuel reprocessing systems, and partitioning of materials in nuclear waste storage.