The 2026 ANS election results are in!

Each spring, newly elected leaders prepare to step into their roles at the American Nuclear Society. During this year's election cycle, ANS members voted for the newest vice president/president-elect and five board of director positions (four U.S., one non-U.S.). About 19 percent of eligible members of the Society voted-a 2 percent dip from last year's turnout.

Meet the vice president/president elect

The Society's next vice president/president-elect is Rebecca Steinman. An ANS member since 1993, Steinman is the senior manager of licensing at Constellation and the chair of ANS's Certification and Workforce Development Committee. She served on the ANS Board of Directors from 2018 to 2021.

"I am deeply honored and grateful to be elected ANS vice president/president-elect, and I thank the membership for placing their trust in me. I look forward to working with our dedicated volunteers, staff, and partners to strengthen member value, grow our community and credentials program, and advocate for the expanded use of nuclear technologies," Steinman told Nuclear News.

Steinman will succeed current ANS vice president/president-elect Mark Peters, who will assume the office of president following the upcoming ANS Annual Conference in early June.

The newest directors

Kirsten Laurin-Kovitz, an ANS member since 2013, is the associate laboratory director of nuclear technologies and national security at Argonne National Laboratory.

Leah Parks, an ANS member since 2007, is a siting manager for Kairos Power. She previously served in several roles at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Sandra Sloan, an ANS member since 1990, is a senior advisor of product development at BWXT Advanced Technologies.

Paul Wilson, an ANS member since 1992, is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Catherine Prat, the non-U.S. director and an ANS member since 2012, is a lead engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company working in Bulgaria.

Professional divisions election results

All 19 professional divisions also elected new leadership for the coming year. Below is the full list of new division leadership.

Accelerator Applications Division:

• Vice chair: Jonathan Gigax
• Secretary: Cathy Cutler
• Treasurer: Peter Hosemann
• Executive committee: Cornelia Hoehr, Sergey Kutsaev, Eric Lang, Etieene Vermeulen

Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology Division:

• Executive committee: Jeffrey C. King, Tyler Steiner, Andrew Zillmer

Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences:

• Vice chair: Joshua Vajda
• Secretary: Miles van Noordennen
• Executive committee: Sarah Donaher, John McCloy, Leah Parks, William Roy, Scott Ward

Education, Training & Workforce Development Division:

• Vice chair: Chris Perfetti
• Secretary: Chuck Lease
• Treasurer: Olivia Blackmon
• Executive committee: Sukesh Aghara, John Mobley IV, Ishita Trivedi, Zachary Van Horn

Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division:

• Vice chair: Kaushik Banerjee
• Vice program chair: Amanda Leong
• Executive committee: R. A. (Bob) Borrelli, Joseph Faldowski, Haiyan Zhao

Fusion Energy Division:

• Vice chair: Trey Gebhart
• Secretary/treasurer: Monica Gehrig
• Executive committee: Brian Grierson, Dale Hitchcock, Eric Lang

Human Factors, Instrumentation and Controls Division:

• 1st Vice chair: Fan Zhang
• 2nd Vice chair: Vivek Agarwal
• Secretary: Padhraic Mulligan
• Treasurer: Ahmad Al Rashdan
• Executive committee: N. Dianne Bull Ezell, Jason Gasque, Niav Hughes Green, Shikha Prasad, Forrest Shriver

Isotopes & Radiation Division:

• Vice chair: Igor Jovanovic
• Executive committee: James (Jim) Bowen, Raymond Cao, Samuel Glover, Lin-wen Hu, Luis Ocampo Giraldo, Robert Steiner

Materials Science & Technology Division:

• Vice chair: Elizabeth Sooby
• Secretary/treasurer: Pierre-Clément (PC) Simon
• Executive committee: Fabiano Carvalho, Bai Cui, Travis Labossiere-Hickman, Xiaoyuan Lou, Ryan Sweet
• Executive committee student representative: Arnold Pradhan

Mathematics & Computation Division:

• Vice chair: Brian Kiedrowski
• Secretary: Evan Gonzalez
• Treasurer: Joel Kulesza
• Executive committee: Kurt Dominesey, Alex Long, Alex Robinson

Nuclear Criticality Safety Division:

• Vice chair: Brittany Williamson
• Secretary: Mac Cook
• Treasurer: Benjamin Martin
• Executive committee: Michael Fendler, Alex Lang, Amanda (Mandy) Szasz
• Executive committee student representative: Anneli Brackbill

Nuclear Installations Safety Division:

• Vice chair: Yunfei Zhao
• Treasurer: Robert Kile
• Secretary: Vaibhav Yadav
• Executive committee: Nicholas R. Brown, Jisuk Kim, Kevin O'Kula, Carlo Parisi

Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division:

• Vice chair: Camille Palmer
• Secretary: Madeline Lockhart
• Treasurer: Thomas Hanlon
• Executive committee: Kimberly Anderson, Maggie Arno, Camille Palmer

Operations & Power Division:

• 1st Vice chair: Melanie Joseph
• 2nd Vice chair: Catherine Prat
• Treasurer: Temi Adeyeye
• Secretary: Brian Greene
• Executive committee: Forrest Shriver, Craig Stover, Juan Villarreal, Matt Wargon

Reactor Physics Division:

• Vice chair: Benjamin Betzler
• Secretary: Emily Shemon
• Treasurer: Eva Davidson
• Executive committee: Andrew Conant, Massimiliano (Max) Fratoni, Cole Gentry, Michael Jarrett, Ishita Trivedi

Radiation Protection & Shielding Division

• Vice chair: Amir Bahadori
• Secretary: Manish Sharma
• Executive committee: Di Chen, Sergio Morató Rafet
• Executive Committee, non-U.S.: Mauritius Hiller
• Executive committee student representative: Angel Mercado

Robotics & Remote Systems Division:

• 1st Vice chair: Fan Zhang
• 2nd Vice chair: Leonel Lagos
• Secretary: Y Z
• Treasurer: Anamary Daniel
• Executive committee: Blake Anderson, Beth Boardman, Majdi Radaideh, Michael Tomlin

Thermal Hydraulics Division:

• Vice chair: Dillon Shaver
• Secretary: Donna Post Guillen
• Treasurer: Jun Liao
• Executive committee: Fan-Bill Cheung, Yue Jin, Jeong Ik Lee, Juliana Pacheco Duarte, Jinzhao Zhang

Young Members Group:

• Vice chair: John Mobley IV
• Treasurer: Evan Gonzalez
• Secretary: Pierre-Clément (PC) Simon
• Executive committee: JungHyun Bae, Yadukrishnan (Yadu) Sasikumar, Mackenzie Warwick