#                                                     Tyler L  Spano                                            

###                         R&D Staff Nuclear Security Scientist- Chemistry                    

## Contact

spanotl@ornl.gov|865.241.3783

## Bio

I am a native of New Jersey and completed my B.A. in Earth Science and Chemistry in 2012 from Kean University, and Ph.D. in Uranium Mineralogy and Nuclear Forensics at the University of Notre Dame in 2017. My graduate research with Dr. Peter C. Burns focused on synthesis and structure-property relationships in uranium minerals and inorganic phases. I was co-advised by Dr. Antonio Simonetti during graduate school and completed a ND Energy Postdoctoral fellowship under his direction during where I developed novel nuclear forensic methods for analysis of uranium minerals and nuclear fuel cycle materials.Following my postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame, I completed a two-year postdoctoral appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she investigated synthetic pathways and spectral signatures of exotic uranium oxide phases and phase transitions in uranyl peroxides. In 2020, I converted to an R&D Associate Nuclear Security Scientist and am currently an R&D Staff Nuclear Security Scientist at within the Materials and Chemistry Group at ORNL.My current research includes material synthesis, optical vibrational spectroscopic, and X-ray diffraction investigations of structure-property relationships of nuclear fuel materials and related phases for nuclear nonproliferation. I am is actively involved in outreach activities and currently serves as Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Mineralogical Society of America, Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee for the Nuclear Science and Technology Division of the American Chemical Society, and Vice President of the East Tennessee Chapter of the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee.

## **Education**

**Ph.D., Uranium Mineralogy and Nuclear Forensics**

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN – January 2018

 

**B.A., Earth Science, Chemistry minor,***summa cum laude *

Kean University, Union, NJ – May 2012

## Publications

##   CURIES: Compendium of uranium Raman and infrared experimental spectra

December, 2023

##   Raman spectroscopic investigation of selected natural uranyl sulfate minerals

February, 2024

##   Advancing Elemental and Isotopic Analysis of Uranium Mineral Inclusions: Rapid Screening via Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and High-Resolution Laser Ablation-ICP-MS Mapping

January, 2024

##   Structural features of early fuel cycle taggant incorporation for intentional nuclear forensics

January, 2024

##   Pressure-induced evolution of the lattice dynamics for selected UO3 polymorphs

October, 2023

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