LTC Jill M. Rahon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Program Director - Research Course Director - Radiation Detection and Measurement Physics and Nuclear Engineering jill.rahon [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Jill Rahon is from Washingtonville, NY. She graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2006 with a B.S. in strategic history. She attended flight school at Fort Novosel, AL, and graduated as the honor graduate of her class, selecting CH-47D/F Chinook helicopters. LTC Rahon progressed to pilot in command and Air Mission Commander with the 101st Airborne Division, with three deployments to Operation Enduring Freedom and over 1,500 hours combat flight time, flying hundreds of air assaults and earning several Air Medals and the Soldier’s Medal for heroism. She commanded B/6-101 Avn at FOB Shank and Jalabad Airfield, where the company flew direct action support missions for United States and Coalition special forces. LTC Rahon received her master’s degree in nuclear engineering from MIT. She attained the position of assistant professor while teaching at USMA and later became Deputy Director of the Nuclear Science Engineering Research Center with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. She completed her Ph.D. work in the Applied Nuclear Physics Laboratory at MIT, researching isotopic identification through resonance capture. She loves working on her 100-year-old house with her husband and step-dancing with her twin 3-year-old daughters. Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.S. - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. - U.S. Military Academy Research Interests Radiation Detection, Protection, and Shielding; Neutron and Mixed-field Detection; Health Physics; Radiography; Nuclear Resonance Analysis; Particle Accelerators; Nuclear Materials Assay; Radiological Decontamination; Radiological Decommissioning and Waste Management Current Research Radiation effects on semiconductor and microelectronic components, particle accelerators for radiation hardening research Selected Publications Rahon, Jill, Areg Danagoulian, Thomas D. MacDonald, Zachary S. Hartwig, and Richard C. Lanza. "Spectroscopic neutron radiography for a cargo scanning system." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 820 (2016): 141-145.Rahon, Jill, and Areg Danagoulian. "Hydrogenous content identification in heterogeneous cargoes via multiple monoenergetic neutron radiography." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 949 (2020): 162860.McDonald, Benjamin S., Areg Danagoulian, Andrew J. Gilbert, Ethan A. Klein, Jonathan A. Kulisek, Michael E. Moore, Jill M. Rahon, and Mital A. Zalavadia. "Neutron resonance transmission analysis prototype system for thorium fuel cycle safeguards." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1062 (2024): 169148.Rahon, Jill Marie. "Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System" Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.Rahon, Jill Marie. "Spectroscopic radiography with monoenergetic neutrons for homeland security applications." Masters' dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.