The 2025 ANS election results are in!

Meet the vice president/president elect

The next vice president/president-elect will be Mark Peters, an ANS member since 2007. Peters is the president and CEO of the MITRE Corporation, a nonprofit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers. Peters previously was the executive vice president for national laboratory management and operations at Battelle. Prior to that he was the director of Idaho National Laboratory for five years.

“I am honored to serve as vice president/president-elect of the American Nuclear Society, an organization at the forefront of advancing nuclear science and technology for the betterment of others. Together with the ANS community, it is my privilege to champion innovation and collaboration that will support our nation and people,” Peters said upon being elected.

Peters will succeed current ANS vice president/president-elect H. M. “Hash” Hashemian, who will assume the office of president following the upcoming ANS Annual Conference in mid-June.

The next treasurer

Julie Ezold was elected for the two-year term as treasurer. An ANS member since 1988, Ezold is a technical advisor at the DOE’s Office of Science Isotope R&D and Production program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She previously has held roles as a waste management/environmental restoration engineer and a nuclear criticality safety engineer. Ezold just completed a three-year term on the ANS Board of Directors this past June.

In her candidacy statement, Ezold spoke to her long history with ANS and plans for the future, saying, “For more than 30 years I have been active in the Society, beginning as a student and now serving in leadership roles at the national level. During this time, I have witnessed many changes to the organization, and in the past few years ANS has become more diverse and stronger. To continue this trajectory, the Society must manage its assets effectively, wisely, and in a transparent manner. I believe ANS has much to offer, not only to its greatest asset, its members, but also to the public.”

The newest directors

The six new directors have been elected to the ANS Board of Directors from a pool of 14:

Todd Allen, an ANS member since 1991, is chair of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department at the University of Michigan.

John Kotek, an ANS member since 2017, is senior vice president of policy and public affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Kathryn McCarthy, an ANS member since 1979, is director of the U.S. ITER Project at ORNL.

Grace Stanke, an ANS member since 2019, is a nuclear fuels engineer at Constellation.

Sama Bilbao y León, the non-U.S. director, has been an ANS member since 1995 and is director general of the World Nuclear Association.

Julia Marshall, the student director, has been an ANS member since 2021 and is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Professional divisions election results

All 19 professional divisions also elected new leadership for the coming year. Below is the full list of new division leadership. Of special note in this year’s professional division elections: There was a tie in the race for treasurer of the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division. NCSD’s executive committee will hold an internal runoff election to determine the division’s treasurer.

Accelerator Applications Division:

• Vice chair: Cheng Sun
• Treasurer: Jonathan Gigax
• Executive committee: Brahim Mustapha, Hyosim Kim

Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology Division:

• Chair: Eddie Lopez Honorato
• Vice chair: Robert O’Brien
• Treasurer: Trevor Parker
• Executive committee: Jhonathan Rosales, Jeffrey Katalenich, Lindsay Kaldon, Roger Miller, Lawrence Heilbronn

Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences:

• Vice chair: Joseph (Joe) Carignan
• Treasurer: Matthew (Matt) Darois
• Secretary: Hannah Pell
• Executive committee: Bruce Montgomery, Lynne Goodman, Nadia Glucksberg, Gerry van Noordennen, Joshua Vajda

Education, Training & Workforce Development Division:

• Vice chair: John Mobley IV
• Secretary: Olivia Blackmon
• Treasurer: Christopher Perfetti
• Executive committee: James Baciak, Sola Talabi, Shikha Prasad, Matt Wargon, Chuck Lease, Lori Brady

Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division:

• Vice chair: Robby Joseph
• Vice program chair: Harish Gadey
• Secretary: Kenneth Marsden
• Treasurer: Harish Gadey
• Executive committee: Josh Jarrell, JungHyun Bae, Hannah Patenaude, Tim Tinsley, Steve Napier, Amanda Leong, Robert Demuth, Toni Karlsson

Fusion Energy Division:

• Executive committee: Yuqiao (Joy) Fan, Hiroyasu Tanigawa, Casey Icenhour

Human Factors, Instrumentation and Controls Division:

• 1st Vice chair: Pradeep Ramuhalli
• 2nd Vice chair: Fan Zhang
• Secretary: Vivek Agarwal
• Treasurer: Ahmad Al Rashdan
• Executive committee: Fan Zhang, Stylianos Chatzidakis, Christianna Howard, Clinton Carter

Isotopes & Radiation Division:

• Vice chair: Kyle Hartig
• Treasurer: R. Greg Downing
• Secretary: Miltiadis Alamaniotis
• Executive committee: Londrea Garrett, Georg Steinhauser, Steven Biegalski, Igor Jovanovic, Brenden Heidrich, Stephen (Steve) LaMont

Materials Science & Technology Division:

• Vice chair: Michael R. Tonks
• Secretary/treasurer: Elizabeth Sooby
• Executive committee: Lorenzo Vergari, Joseph Caleb Philipps, Rongjie Song, Michael Tonks, Cynthia Adkins, Annabelle Le Coq, M. Nedim Cinbiz

Mathematics & Computation Division:

• Vice chair: Kathryn D. Huff
• Executive committee: Paul K. Romano, Sandra Bogetic, Wei Ji

Nuclear Criticality Safety Division:

• Vice chair: Theresa Cutler
• Secretary: Kristan Wessels
• Treasurer: Currently undecided
• Executive committee: James Cole, Rae Moser, Alicia Salazar-Crockett

Nuclear Installations Safety Division:

• Vice chair: Alex Huning
• Treasurer: Yunfei Zhao
• Secretary: Robert Kile
• Executive committee: Matthew Denman, Ryan Meyer, Carol Smidts

Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division:

• Vice chair: Sunil Chirayath
• Secretary: Madeline Lockhart
• Treasurer: Sandra Bogetic
• Executive committee: Haori Yang, Michael Willis, Shikha Prasad, John Mattingly, Stefani Buster

Operations & Power Division:

• 1st Vice chair: Hitesh Bindra
• 2nd Vice chair: Melanie Joseph
• Treasurer: Catherine Prat
• Secretary: Temi Adeyeye
• Executive committee: Ryan Olehausen, Rosemary Yeremian Needham, Prashant Jain, Caleb Brooks, Brian Greene

Reactor Physics Division:

• Vice chair: Benjamin Collins
• Secretary: Eva Davidson
• Treasurer: Benjamin Betzler
• Executive committee: Rike Bostelmann, Paul Cosgrove, Rodolfo Ferrer, Erik Walker

Radiation Protection & Shielding Division

• Vice chair: Travis Bennett
• Secretary: Jim Clark
• Treasurer: Jun Kim
• Executive committee: Bamidele Ebiwonjumi, R. T. Perry
• Executive committee, Non-U.S.: Bor Kos

Robotics & Remote Systems Division:

• 2nd Vice chair: Anthony Abrahao
• Secretary: Y Z
• Treasurer: Fan Zhang
• Executive committee: Boaz Buechley, Douglas Reid

Thermal Hydraulics Division:

• Vice chair: Ferry Roelofs
• Secretary: Dillon Shaver
• Treasurer: Donna Post Guillen
• Executive committee: Trevor Howard, Bao-Wen Yang, Jun Liao, Marilyn Delgado, Maria Avramova

Young Members Group:

• Vice chair: William Searight
• Treasurer: Pierre-Clément (PC) Simon
• Secretary: John Mobley IV
• Executive committee: Evan Gonzalez, Carolina Bourdot Dutra