George Jiao Receives Michigan Engineering Staff Excellence Award
Congratulations to Zhijie (George) Jiao on receiving the 2025 Michigan Engineering Staff Excellence Award. The honor recognizes his technical leadership, mentorship, and service as MIBL facility director and a NERS research scientist.
Jiao helps students and visiting researchers develop and execute irradiation experiments, advances the laboratory’s capabilities, and supports MIBL’s role in the Nuclear Science User Facilities program. His contributions include co-leading a successful infrastructure proposal for a high-energy helium source and helping keep experiments running during building renovations. We are grateful for his dedication to the MIBL research community.