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s.landsberger@mail.utexas.edu
512-796-0287
Office Location: ETC 7.116

Sheldon Landsberger

Professor

Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering

Department Research Areas

Nuclear and Radiation Engineering

Research Interests

Radiation damages studies, robotics in nuclear applications, environmental transport of radioactivity in the environment, fission product identification.

Bio

Dr. Landsberger is a Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering technical area. He has served on the faculty of the Cockrell School of Engineering since 1997. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and more than 195 conference proceedings mainly in nuclear analytical measurements and their applications in nuclear forensics, natural radioactivity and environmental monitoring of trace and heavy metals. In 2007 he received the Arthur Holly Compton award from the American Nuclear Society for outstanding achievements in education in nuclear science and engineering for designing and implementing one of the most advanced distance learning programs in the nation for nuclear engineers. In 2005 he received the Glenn Murphy Award from the Nuclear and Radiological Division of the American Society of Engineering Education, recognizing his notable professional contributions to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering students.

Educational Qualifications

  • BS, Chemistry/Mathematics, Sir George Williams University, 1972
  • MS, Nuclear Chemistry, University of Salford, 1973
  • MS, Physics, Concordia University, 1976
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 1982

Select Awards & Honors

  1. Advisor of the Year, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Board (2024-2025)
  2. Fulbright Specialist Grant, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2022)
  3. Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering (2018-present)
  4. Lockheed Martin Teaching Award in Engineering (2021)
  5. Da Vinci Award, for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service for a Full Professor (2021)
  6. Fulbright Specialist Grant in Physics Education, University of Tartu, Estonia (2016)
  7. Copernicus Visiting Scientist Award, University of Ferrara (2015)
  8. Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation Professorship (2012-2018) 
  9. Hayden Head Centennial Endowed Professorship (2005 - 2012)
  10. American Nuclear Society, Arthur Holly Compton Award (2007)

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