Benjamin Beeler is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. His degrees are in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S. 2008, M.S. 2011, Ph.D. 2013). He completed his postdoctoral appointment jointly at the University of California-Davis and the University of California-Berkeley. His professional interests are atomistic description and evolution of nuclear fuel and structural materials. He has extensive experience on interatomic potential development, particularly related to uranium and uranium-alloys. He primarily utilizes density functional theory and molecular dynamics methods to determine thermophysical equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties for a variety of metallic, oxide and salt nuclear-related material systems.