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He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Global Security Division at Savannah River National Laboratory and serves as an Associate Editor for Radiation Physics and Chemistry. A Certified Health Physicist, licensed Professional Engineer in Nuclear Engineering, Fellow of the Health Physics Society, and Fellow of the American Physical Society, Dr. Hayes brings a rare combination of university research, national laboratory service, industrial nuclear operations, emergency response, and public communication experience.\n\nBefore joining NC State, Dr. Hayes held senior technical and management roles across the nuclear enterprise, including work at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Nellis Air Force Base. His industrial experience includes radiological engineering, nuclear waste operations, radiological technology development, emergency response, technical project management, and applied nuclear security work. This background gives his research and teaching a strong connection to real-world nuclear systems, regulatory constraints, field operations, and mission-driven engineering.\n\nHis research spans advanced reactor concepts, radiation shielding, radiological air monitoring, retrospective dosimetry, nuclear forensics, nonproliferation, emergency response, and radiation protection. He has worked extensively with thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, and electron paramagnetic resonance to reconstruct historical radiation fields from ordinary materials. He also serves on the DOE-NNSA Advisory Committee on Nuclear Security and the NCEES Nuclear Engineering PE exam committee.\n\nBeyond the laboratory, classroom, and field, Dr. Hayes is an active public communicator on nuclear science and radiological risk, using social media to reach broad audiences and challenge misinformation about nuclear technology. 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These concepts motivate broader questions about neutron economy, fuel-cycle design, nonproliferation, and how safeguards can be incorporated directly into reactor design.\n\nThe second part will focus on retrospective radiation characterization using thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, and electron paramagnetic resonance. These methods can turn ordinary materials such as brick, ceramics, surface-mount resistors, insulators, and building materials into passive records of prior radiation fields, enabling reconstruction of historical source locations, radiation energies, enrichment histories, and illicit nuclear activities after the source has been removed.\n\nThe final technical portion will address radiation shielding for space and terrestrial nuclear applications, including metal-oxide-infused conformal coatings, oxide-based shielding materials, neutron activation analysis, and buildup-factor methods. 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