PNNL

Dr. Grey Batie (he/him, they/them) is a nuclear engineer in the Applied Radiation Detection group, within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). 

Prior to this role, Dr. Batie was a post-doctoral fellow in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP), supporting the NNSA’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development Office in Washington, DC.

As a doctoral student at the University of California-Berkeley, their research focused on developing novel methods to design and operate spent fuel reprocessing facilities to enable the detection of inadvertent or deliberate hold up of special nuclear material.

While obtaining their master's degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Batie conducted research in fetal magnetocardiography. Their work involved the assessment of optically pumped magnetometers as a cost-effective alternative to superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for evaluating fetuses with life-threatening heart arrhythmias.

They have completed internships at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences, and PNNL. Dr. Batie’s interests include recruitment, retention, and advocacy for minority students in the sciences.

• Gamma spectroscopy
• International nuclear safeguards
• Microcalorimetry
• Nuclear forensics 
• Nuclear nonproliferation
• Radiation detection

• PhD in nuclear engineering, University of California-Berkeley
• MS in medical physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BS in nuclear engineering and physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology