Martin Nieto-Perez is an Associate Teaching Professor at the Ken and Mary Alice Department of Nuclear Engineering. Martin received his BS (1997) in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, and a MS (2001) and PhD (2004) in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After his PhD he held a postdoctoral appointment at Argonne National Laboratory between 2004 and 2006. Between 2008 and 2021 he was professor/researcher at CICATA, one of the research units of Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Queretaro, Mexico. Martin’s research focuses on two main thrusts: plasma-material interactions in both high and low temperature plasmas, and neutronics and kinetic modeling/design relevant to the insertion of fusion-based neutron sources in the nuclear fuel cycle both in the front-end (as fissile material breeders) and the back end (actinide burners, spent fuel regenerators).

• BS, Chemical Engineering, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, 1997
• MS, Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004

Journal Articles

Christian Gómez Samaniego, Martin Nieto-Perez and Gonzalo Ramos, 2021, "Simulation of the inner electrode geometry effect on the rundown phase characteristics of a coaxial plasma accelerator.", Revista Mexicana de Física, 67, (1), pp. 162-172

Humberto Salazar-Cravioto, Martin Nieto-Perez, Gonzalo Ramos, Swadesh Mahajan, Prashant Valanju and Michael Kotschenreuther, 2020, "Modeling of a Spherical Tokamak as an Extended Neutron Source Using ASTRA and MCNP", IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 48, (6), pp. 7

Miguel Lindero-Hernandez, Gonzalo Ramos and Martin Nieto-Perez, 2019, "Evaluation of Copper-Beryllium Contacts for High Current Density Pulsed Applications", IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 47, (8), pp. 4048 - 4051

Marlenne Gomez-Ramirez, Lizbeth Soto-Ruvalcaba, Martin Nieto-Perez and Norma Rojas-Avelizapa, 2019, "Cold plasma: an alternative to reduce the viability of Aspergillus flavus conidia in lentil beans", Mexican Journal of Biotechnology, 4, (3), pp. 12

Daniel Hernandez-Arriaga, Dulce Maria Ventura-Ovalle and Martin Nieto-Perez, 2019, "Design of the Toroidal Field Coil System for the TPM-1U Tokamak", Fusion Science and Technology, 75, (2), pp. 148-159

Martin Nieto-Perez, Raul Avalos-Zuñiga and Gonzalo Ramos, 2017, "Monte Carlo simulation of ion–material interactions in nuclear fusion devices", Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 172, (5-6), pp. 429-440

Francisco Ceballos-Soto, Martin Nieto-Perez and Gonzalo Ramos, 2017, "Design of a pulse transformer for the ohmic heating system of a small tokamak", Fusion Engineering and Design, 121, pp. 325-336

Conference Proceedings

David Alamilla-Flores, Martin Nieto-Perez and Pedro Argumedo-Teuffer, 2017, "Hydrodinamic effect of Discharge of Dielectric Barrier in the flow of air around an airfoil NACA 0018", 16th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, LAWPP 2017 - Conference Proceedings, IEEE, pp. `1-4

• Best Researcher at IPN, category Young Researcher, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, December 2010

• Fulbright/Garcia-Robles Scholar, US Department of State/CONACyT, August 1998 - July 2000

Service to Penn State:

Service to External Organizations:

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Chairperson, Technical Committe Chairparson, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fusion Technology Committee, January 2020 - December 2023