Dr. Sprouster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on characterizing and controlling matter over multiple length- and time-scales. Professor Sprouster is actively developing and engineering next generation energy materials that can withstand the extreme environments common to advanced fission and fusion reactor technologies. His group employs multi-modal synchrotron- and neutron-based characterization methods to support applied and fundamental research programs. Professor Sprouster received his Ph.D. in Physics from The Australian National University, and prior to joining Stony Brook University as a faculty member was a Senior Scientist/Assistant Research Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment in the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.