Amir A. Bahadori is Professor in the Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, serves as Nuclear Engineering Program Director, and holds the Hal and Mary Siegele Professorship in Engineering at Kansas State University. He previously worked in the Space Radiation Analysis Group at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Bahadori has an extensive background in space radiation sources and transport, radiation dosimetry, radiation detection, radiation risk models, and radiation epidemiology. He is presently collaborating on the Million Person Study of Radiation Workers and Atomic Veterans. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the Health Physics Society, and the Radiation Research Society. He serves on the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and the Program Area Committee 6: Radiation Measurements and Dosimetry. In 2018, he was awarded the Zeldovich Medal for his work on space radiation detection, and in 2022, he was awarded the American Nuclear Society Presidential Citation for his work on the Society’s position statement on low-level radiation exposure health effects.
Bahadori received a B.S. in mechanical engineering with nuclear engineering option and a B.S. in mathematics from Kansas State University, an M.S. in nuclear engineering sciences from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Florida.