Ghazaleh Bahman Rokh

Role at ANSTO

Dr Ghazaleh Bahman Rokh is a Wasteform Scientist in the Wasteform Engineering Team, a section within ANSTO Synroc.  The team specialises in the research and development of candidate materials or ‘wasteforms’ to support the safe and efficient disposition of nuclear wastes with a focus on problematic nuclear waste streams.  The team studies glass, glass-ceramic and ceramic materials, to immobilise radioactive wastes using ANSTO’s Synroc Technology.

Ghazaleh conducts research into the treatment of nuclear wastes by developing tailored nuclear wasteforms and processing routes.  This research supports the advancement of engineering designs and solutions for waste processing plants for ANSTO site wastes and for ANSTO Synroc’s external clients.

Her expertise is in materials preparation, fabrication, characterisation, and analysis of samples, and the interpretation of experimental results.  She is currently designing glass-ceramic composite wasteforms to immobilize challenging nuclear wastes.  Before joining ANSTO, she worked as postdoctoral fellow at UNSW on solid-state hydrogen storage technologies for hydrogen powered commercial vehicles and remote-area power-supply applications.

Expertise

• Nuclear wasteform design, characterisation and performance testing
• Materials science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, and physics
• Materials synthesis/processing including physical and chemical methods
• Materials characterization using solid state and elemental analysis, electron microscopy, and spectroscopy instruments.

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