William B. McCarthy, PhD
Associate Director of EHS and Reactor Radiation Protection Officer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biography
Bill McCarthy is an Associate Director of Environment, Health and Safety at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary responsibility is oversight of the radiation protection program at the MIT research reactor. Bill has been at MIT since 1997, conducting radiation safety trainings and assisting lab personnel in the design of safe experiments using radiation sources, both ionizing and non-ionizing. Prior to 1997 Bill worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Bill earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Physics and Master of Science (MS) in Radiological Sciences from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell and is certified by the American Board of Health Physics. His area of expertise is the protection of humans to exposures of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations.