Joshua Miao

Ph.D. Student | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering

About

Graduate Research Assistant at ABC Lab, NPRE, UIUC

Research Goals

  • Understand graphite behavior within Molten salts under mechno-chemical stressors
  • Corrosion in Molten Salt Environments

Awards

  • NEUP UNLP Scholarship Recipient, 2024
  • Materials Science at Illinois Ian and Victoria Robertson Scholarship, 2025
  • Grainger Engineering Visionary Scholarship, 2025
  • Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Reasearch (ISUR) Scholar, 2024

Education

2026 | B.S in Materials Science and Engineering, Minor in Chemistry | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Email: vergari@illinois.edu