I am a highly passionate US-based nuclear engineering master's graduate currently working in the industry. I began my journey studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama where I met a Navy veteran who worked in nuclear propulsion. Through conversations with him about his work, I immediately developed an intense curiosity about the concept and promise of nuclear power.I then began my master's studies as a student in EIT InnoEnergy's European Masters in Nuclear Energy (EMINE) in Stockholm, Sweden at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) studying nuclear energy technology. While there, I refined my focus into thermal-hydraulics of nuclear systems and neutronics, and gained an integrated understanding of the components, principles and safety considerations of nuclear power. In my second year, I decided to specialize in materials science of steels and other metals under irradiation at the Phelma school of the Grenoble Institute of Technology in France. I finished my studies with a master's thesis at the French Commission for Atomic and Alternative Energies (CEA) in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance performing multiphysics calculations using the SIMMER-V mechanistic code on a low void-worth core (CFV) in full-scale 1500 MWth ASTRID-type reactor studies.