Ciara Sivels

Early life and education

Sivels is from Chesapeake, Virginia.[1] She attended Hickory High School.[2][3] Sivels was originally interested in culinary arts, but took an Advanced Placement class in chemistry and became interested in sciences.[4][5] She completed her undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6] During her time at MIT, Sivels interned for Teach For America before considering a career in academic research.[2] She also served in various leadership roles at the MIT chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.[7]

Sivels joined the University of Michigan in 2013 for her graduate studies, working on Beta-Gamma coincidence-detectors and nuclear forensics with Sara Pozzi.[2][8] Her thesis considered nuclear nonproliferation using radioxenon for nuclear explosion monitoring in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.[9] [10] She developed a new "plug and play" radioxenon detector device to improve monitoring at.[11][12]

During her graduate studies, Sivels was one of three black women completing their PhD. She engaged with the Detroit Pre-College Engineering Program, supporting high school students from minority backgrounds.[13] She also founded the Women in Nuclear Engineering in Radiological Sciences group at UoM.[14][15] In 2018, Sivels was the first black woman to earn a PhD in nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan, considered the top nuclear engineering program in the United States.[16][17]

Research

Sivels joined Johns Hopkins University in 2018.[2][18] Her work at the Applied Physics Laboratory is funded through the Department of Defense, and is highly classified.[19]

Sivels is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers.[20]

Awards and honors

In 2019, Sivels was chosen to be one of the 125 national American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors.[21][22] [23] The award recognizes the work of X as part of an outreach initiative to encourage the representation of women in STEM fields. She was named a "Millennial to Watch" by the US Office of Nuclear Energy in 2019.[24]

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