Prof. Ahmed Hassanein, the Paul L. Wattelet Professor and Head of Nuclear Engineering, have been elected a Fellow of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Hassanein was elected "for contributions to modeling and simulation of fusion, laser, and discharge-produced plasmas," said Gordon Day, IEEE 2012 president and CEO.

IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Members chosen to be a Fellow must be a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in an IEEE field of interest.

Hassanein's research interests include plasma material interactions, magnetic and inertial fusion research radiation damage in materials, computational physics and hydrodynamics, materials under extreme conditions, advanced numerical methods, extreme ultraviolet lithography, laser and discharge-produced plasma, nuclear radiation detection, and high power targets for accelerators.

Professor Hassanein has more than 400 technical publications in more than 30 different Journals in various fields of science and engineering.

Professor Hassanein is also a Fellow of SPIE, International Society for Optics and Photonics and a Fellow of AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.