User:Jeremy Gernand

Jeremy Gernand is currently working for the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) at Carnegie Mellon University developing risk assessment methodologies to anticipate the potential hazards to human health and environmental ecosystems from the emissions of nanomaterials. He is generally interested in developing methods and processes that harness the information available in empirical data for a probabilistic assessment of risks and the effectiveness of available mitigations.

Gernand has 8 years of experience as a Safety and Reliability Engineer in the U.S. aerospace and defense fields where he conducted quantitative and qualitative reliability and safety hazard analyses on complex engineered systems including International Space Station hardware, air- and ground-based radar systems, and large-scale industrial sorting systems.

Additionally, Gernand acted as management liaison for one year with a large public health program in Bangladesh and served for 2 years with the U.S. Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa as a Math and Physics educator.

He holds 2 degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University (B.S. 1998) and Rice University (M.S. 2006) where he specialized in heat transfer and fluid dynamics at the micrometer scale developing a design for a methanol reformer for use with portable fuel cells.