Darryl Butt

Darryl P. Butt is a Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University, and an Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) in Idaho Falls, ID. Dr. Butt held several positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory between 1991 and 1999. As a post doctoral fellow he studied very high temperature hydrogen-solid reactions and thermodynamics of transition metal and actinide carbides. From 2000-2005 Dr. Butt was an Associate Professor at University of Florida in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with close collaborations with the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science. Ph.D. in Ceramic Science in 1991 and his B.S. in Ceramic Science and Engineering with a minor in Technical Writing in 1984, from the Pennsylvania State University