Since his retirement in 2021, Dr. Prinja has been Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he served as the inaugural Department Chair (2014 – 2019). He held Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions (1980 – 1987) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of California Los Angeles prior to joining UNM as Assistant Professor (1987).

Dr. Prinja’s research interests include: Moment-preserving reduced-order physics models for high energy charged particles with application to space radiation; Markov-chain branching process theory of phase-space random particle populations relevant to nuclear security and nuclear safeguards; Generalized Master equation and closure models for radiation transport in non-Markovian stochastic media with ICF and nuclear security applications.