Laurent Karim Béland is a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, mentored by Roger Stoller. He is also a Fonds de Recherche Québécois Nature et Technologies Fellow. He is a member of the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada) in 2013. His interests include modeling radiation damage in nuclear materials, notably using molecular and accelerated dynamics simulations.