Dean Kruger

Dean Krueger is a graduate student in the Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics department working under Prof. Paul Wilson. His research focuses on modeling economic interactions between elements of the nuclear fuel cycle to better understand the complex system dynamics that exist in a system with the unique constraints of nuclear supply. Dean received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2020, where he spent time studying the effect of magnetic field configuration on black hole accretion disk evolution and stability. Dean is particularly interested in understanding the interplay between the driving factors of energy transitions and the constraints placed upon them by existing infrastructure and economics.