Dr. Larry Aagesen has been a member of the Computational Microstructure Science group at Idaho National Laboratory since 2015. He is a member of the development team for MARMOT, INL’s application for simulating microstructural evolution in nuclear fuels and reactor structural materials, which is based on INL’s MOOSE framework. His primary area of expertise is in phase-field modeling, having developed phase-field models for a variety of physical phenomena, including fission gas bubble evolution, solid-state precipitation, solidification and coarsening in metallic alloys and ceramics, and semiconductor growth. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in 2010, followed by appointment as a postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2010 to 2015. Prior to graduate studies, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program aboard the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN.