Dr. Situm currently holds an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship award which supports his research at The University of Western Ontario under Professor James Noël. His work involves studying the atmospheric corrosion of copper using a Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) well as the absorption of hydrogen into copper using in situ electrochemistry and neutron reflectometry (NR). Both projects support the effort to build a deep geologic repository (DGR) for used nuclear fuel. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan; the objective of his research was to develop new methods for the study of corroded polymer-coated steel and uranium mill tailings using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatoon. He is currently the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) nominee in small modular reactor (SMR) safety and licencing in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina.