Jack Johnson
Undergraduate Student Researcher
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJack Johnson is an undergraduate nuclear engineering researcher at Purdue University with a decade of hands-on technical and mechanical experience spanning fusion materials research, automotive repair, and precision lab operations. At CMUXE he operates class 4B lasers and vacuum systems, prepares samples, and leverages SEM, FIB, XRD, XPS and optical tools while analyzing data with Matlab, ImageJ, CasaXPS and Origin to advance materials for tokamak reactors. He balances collaborative paper-writing with an independent research agenda in plasma and fusion-related fields, bringing practical experimental skills rarely seen at the undergraduate level. Outside the lab he has applied disciplined problem-solving as an automotive technician and in Formula SAE, demonstrating an ability to learn tooling and workflows quickly and operate autonomously. Based in West Lafayette, he combines shop-floor grit with academic rigor and a knack for turning complex experiments into reproducible analyses.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, 3.5, High School Diploma, 3.5 at Staples High SchoolGithub contributions (5)
john2929/ANSC516
Nov 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:61 commits, 128 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 3 months
john2929/bmd_turkey
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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