PhD candidate, Alejandro Figueroa Bengoa's has successfully completed his PhD! Under the direction of Professor Maria Okuniewski, Alejandro’s research focused on characterizing the fission-gas porosity evolution in high burnup nuclear fuels for research and test reactors. During his time at Purdue, he has developed several automated model-based image processing tools to facilitate the analysis, and after graduation, he will be joining Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research and development engineer.