Assistant Professor at the University of Regina within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Energy Systems Engineering program. Prof. Situm’s group will investigate challenges surrounding the corrosion or corrosiveness of nuclear fuel proposed for use in various SMR designs in order to improve the safety and support the licensing of these SMR designs. Prof. Situm previously held an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship supporting his research at The University of Western Ontario under Professor James Noël. His Postdoctoral research involved studying the atmospheric corrosion of copper using a Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) well as the absorption of hydrogen into copper using in situ electrochemistry and neutron reflectometry (NR). Both projects are in support of the effort to build a deep geologic repository (DGR) for used nuclear fuel. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan; the objective of his research was to develop new methods for the study of corroded polymer-coated steel and uranium mill tailings using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatoon.