Sutton named SRNL's University Relations Director

The Savannah River National Laboratory and the University of South Carolina have announced that USC professor Dr. Michael Sutton is the SRNL's director for University Relations.

In this position, Sutton will assist SRNL in the expansion of collaborations with regional and national universities.

SRNL is the U.S. Department of Energy's applied research and development laboratory located at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. The laboratory provides applied technology solutions in the areas of energy security, national and homeland security and environmental protection and cleanup, often working in collaboration with research universities, other national laboratories and private industry partners. SRNL is operated for DOE by Washington Savannah River Company.

Sutton will continue in his post as Carolina Distinguished Professor in USC's department of mechanical engineering and serving as director of the state Center for Mechanics, Materials and Nondestructive Examination.

Sutton holds a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois, along with an M.S. and B.S. in engineering mechanics and materials from Southern Illinois University. Sutton is a fellow with both the American Society for Mechanical Engineering and the Society for Experimental Mechanics.

Sutton's research interests include coherent and incoherent optics applications, experimental mechanics, digital image processing, computer vision, applications of integral methods and experimental mechanics, boundary value problems, plastic fracture mechanics and finite elements modeling of cracked bodies.