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Dr. Todd Allen is deputy laboratory director for Science & Technology. He has been a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2003. Dr. Allen’s research expertise is in the area of materials-related issues in nuclear reactors, specifically radiation damage and corrosion. His research interests also include energy policy and the sustainability of nuclear energy.

From 2008 through 2012, he was the scientific director for the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility at INL, a position he held in conjunction with his faculty position at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Allen is director of the Center for Material Science of Nuclear Fuel, a Department of Energy Office of Science Energy Frontier Research Center at INL, and was previously the director of INL Fuels and Materials CORE of the Institute of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology.

He served as a nuclear-trained submarine officer and is a retired Navy captain. He earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1997 and began his research career at Argonne National Laboratory-West in Idaho Falls.

He holds a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in information management from George Washington University, and a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from Northwestern University.