Dr. Rinkle Juneja is an R&D staff scientist in the Plasma Theory and Modeling Group of the Fusion Energy Division (FED) in the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate (FFESD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since February 2023. She is a computational physicist with expertise in fusion energy, materials science, plasma-material interactions, and machine learning. In her role, she is advancing the development of resilient plasma-facing components for fusion reactors and building quantitative tools for modeling plasma transport, mitigating disruptions, and understanding plasma-material interactions using magnetohydrodynamic models and machine learning methods. She has joined ORNL in July 2020 as a postdoctoral research associate in the Materials Science and Technology Division. She has received her PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in May 2020. Her research areas during her PhD and postdoctoral appointment were focused on understanding electronic transport, thermal transport, and non-trivial topologies in materials using first-principles and machine learning methods.
