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Marie Kirkegaard

Marie Kirkegaard is a postdoctoral fellow at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), having recently obtained a PhD in energy science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a doctoral student, Marie conducted uranium chemistry research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has also engaged in nuclear policy research and been an active participant in the Stanford-MEPhI Young Professionals Nuclear Forum since 2018.