Ph.D. Student | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering
About
Graduate Research Assistant, PhD Student, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Research Goals
- Graphite-Tritium interaction in high temperature Molten Salt Reactor environments (FLiBe, FLiNaK)
- Fluoroacidity of molten salt
- Gas Sparging in molten salt
- Electrochemical studies in molten salt
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/gsrakib
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-0668
Skills
- Gas Adsorption Analysis (Autosorb 6300)
- Physisorption: BET surface area, pore volume, & pore size distribution.
- Chemisorption: Measurement of hydrogen uptake in the A3 graphite matrix.
- Temperature Controlled Desorption (TPD)
- Raman Spectroscopy for Graphite
- X-Ray Photo Spectroscopy (XPS) & Casa XPS software
- Neutron Scattering techniques
- Quasi Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) – Liquid dynamics study of molten salt
- Neutron Diffraction- Local chemical structure of molten salt
- Data reduction – Addie, Dave
- Empirical Potential Structure Refinement Software- pair distribution function analysis
- Scanning Electron Microscopy ( SEM)
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
Education
2020 | M.S. in Nuclear Engineering | University of Dhaka
2018| B. S. in Nuclear Engineering| University of Dhaka
Selected Awards
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (MF3), Grainger Engineering School, UIUC, 2025
- Student Travel Grant from Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2025.
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, Grainger College of Engineering, 2025-2026
- NSD GRO Researcher, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 2023
- Brainin Fellowship, Grainger Engineering College, UIUC, 2021
Memberships
- American Nuclear Society (ANS), UIUC Chapter, 2023
- Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2023
- Student Advising on Graduate Education (SAGE), Graduate College, UIUC, 2023
- Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (EGSAC), Grainger Engineering College, UIUC, 2022
- Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, UIUC, 2022
Selected Articles in Journals
- Evans, A., Rakib, G.S. and Vergari, L. (2026) “Physics and engineering review of gas sparging in molten salt reactors,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, 446, p. 114624. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2025.114624.
- Rakib, G.S. et al. (2025) ‘The structure of molten F7LiNaK with CeF3 using neutron diffraction and EPSR’, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 615, p. 156000. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2025.156000.
- Rakib, G. S. et al. (2025) ‘Self-Diffusivity Measurement of Eutectic F7 LiNaK with and without Additives Using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering’, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8(6), pp. 3638–3646. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c03249.
- Rakib, G.S. et al. (2020) ‘Numerical experiments on D-T gas filled PF1000 device with pressure variation’, Plasma Research Express, 2(4), p. 045004. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1067/abc097.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
- L Vergari, G.S. Rakib “Effects of Tritium-Graphite Interaction on Safety Transients in Graphite-Moderated Nuclear Reactors”, 24th International Nuclear Graphite Specialists Meeting, 2024.
- Rakib, G. S. et al. (2023), ‘Measurement of the Self-Diffusivity of Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering”\’, in 2023 ANS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Fuel and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors — ANS / Meetings / 2023 ANS Annual Meeting / Technical Sessions
- Rakib, G. S. et al. ( 2023), ‘Measurement of the Pair Distribution Function of Molten Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Neutron Diffraction’, in 2023 ANS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Fuel and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors — ANS / Meetings / 2023 ANS Annual Meeting / Technical Sessions
- Rakib, G.S. et al. (2018) ‘Observation of Plasma Dynamics in Axial and Radial Phase of DPF Device with Varying Gas Pressure’, in 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET). 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIET.2018.8660826
- Akter, L., Rakib, G.S. et al. (2018) ‘Study of Axial and Radial Phase Plasma Dynamics as a Function of the Variation of Gas Using Lee Model Code’, in 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET). 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIET.2018.8660774.