Eric Lang is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico. He received his PhD in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. J.P. Allain in 2020. From 2020-2022, he held a postdoctoral appointment at Sandia National Laboratories working with Dr. Khalid Hattar. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed papers. Research interests include refractory metals, irradiation effects in materials, advanced materials synthesis, electron microscopy, in-situ characterization.