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Dr Matthew Brand

Dr Matthew Brand

Associate Lecturer
Engineering
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr Matthew Brand completed his PhD in nuclear engineering in 2024 at UNSW, after graduating with the University Medals in Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Physics at UNSW in 2020. His research focusses on understanding and characterising the radiation damage and shielding properties of materials used in nuclear environments. He has developed computational methods to accelerate the determination of these responses, and his codes are currently used by industry for the design of fusion reactors. Matthew has authored multiple patents, industry reports and journal articles. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering UNSW, teaching courses on Reactor Physics, and coordinating the nuclear engineering curriculum as the Nuclear Engineering Specialisation Lead.
E-mail
m.brand@unsw.edu.au
Location
Ainsworth J17
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Brand MI; Obbard EG; Wilson C; Naish J; Kamal G; Astbury J; Burr PA, 2025, 'Material selection charts for optimised radiation shielding', Materials Today, 88, pp. 36 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2025.05.007
    Journal articles | 2025
    Setayandeh SS; Brand MI; Khan AH; Obbard EG; Astbury JO; Wilson CL; Irukuvarghula S; Burr PA, 2025, 'Vacancy diffusion in non-stoichiometric ε-WB2-x', Computational Materials Science, 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2025.113978
    Journal articles | 2025
    Setayandeh SS; Stansby JH; Obbard EG; Brand MI; Miskovic DM; Laws KJ; Peterson VK; Çetinkaya S; Astbury JO; Wilson CL; Irukuvarghula S; Burr PA, 2025, 'Corrigendum to “A Combined DFT and NPD Approach to Determine the Structure and Composition of the ε-Phase of Tungsten Boride” [Acta Materialia 259 (2023) 119282] (Acta Materialia (2023) 259, (S1359645423006122), (10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119282))', Acta Materialia, 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121067
    Journal articles | 2023
    Brand MI; Obbard EG; Burr PA, 2023, 'Spatial distribution of primary radiation damage in microstructures', Npj Materials Degradation, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41529-023-00337-6
    Journal articles | 2023
    Setayandeh SS; Stansby JH; Obbard EG; Brand MI; Miskovic DM; Laws KJ; Peterson VK; Astbury JO; Wilson CL; Irukuvarghula S; Burr PA, 2023, 'A combined DFT and NPD approach to determine the structure and composition of the ε-phase of tungsten boride', Acta Materialia, 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119282

  • Radiation shielding
  • Radiation damage
  • Reactor physics
  • Computational modelling and simulation
  • Nuclear engineering
  • Fusion engineering