Thomas Downar

Thomas Downar is professor emeritus of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he built a distinguished career in nuclear reactor physics and computational methods for reactor design. Downar earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at MIT, where his fellowship began in 1982. His research at Michigan has produced widely used computer codes for reactor physics analysis and safety evaluation, including contributions to the NRC-licensed PARCS nodal diffusion code used in commercial reactor safety analysis.