EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA, USA
- Ph. D. (June 2003), S. M. (February 2001) in Nuclear Engineering (GPA: 4. 8/5. 0)
Honors: Manson Benedict Fellow (Top Student) 2001, Member of Alpha Nu Sigma honor society
Activities: Elected President of the Italian Student Organization (200 members), *****
Polytechnic Institute Torino, Italy
B. Eng. (May 1997), Nuclear Engineering (GPA: 5. 0/5. 0)
Honors: Laurea summa cum Laude – Top 5% Student

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY
***** ***** ***** , ***** Madrid, Spain
Department Head – Product Quality (November 2009 – Present)
Lead a department of 60 quality engineers, technicians and laboratory analysts, managing programs targeting nuclear fuel fabrication process improvements, cost reduction, product performance optimization, and optimal compliance with legal requirements and customer quality needs and expectations.
Supervisor – Nuclear Fuel Rod Technology (October 2006 – September 2008)
Managed technical projects on fuel rod technology (M€ projects). Supervised the work of project engineers. Served as technical lead for development of new products and tools. Represented the company in international nuclear fuel programs (like Halden, ALPS, CABRI). Managed to obtain license of the company thermal-mechanical design tool for use in the Belgian market (multi M€ contract)
GLOBAL CONSULTANCY
Accenture S. L. Madrid, Spain
Manager (September 2008 – November 2009)
Member of the executive committee of the resources operating group. Served as senior expert on nuclear power technology. Helped clients develop strategic plans and processes to optimize management and operation of nuclear assets and personnel. Developed methodologies for selection of best generation technologies for utilities.
TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY AND R&D
Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen, Switzerland
Project Manager – Nuclear Fuel Analysis (January 2005 – September 2006)
Managed technical projects on nuclear fuel safety. Leaded project engineers team. Acted as expert on nuclear safety issues to external partners. Represented the Swiss Nuclear Regulatory Authority in international experimental fuel testing programs (Halden, CABRI, ALPS, EPRI-FRP). Managed nuclear fuel research programs. Doubled the size of the fuel modeling group. Obtained scientific / technical grants for 1. 5 MCHF
Senior engineer (April 2004 – December 2004)
Leaded technical studies on the safety of nuclear fuels. Served as technical interface to the Swiss Nuclear Regulatory Authority.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral associate (June 2003 to April 2004)
Developed research programs on nuclear fuel design. Supervised a Master student in a project developing a new methodology to investigate the economical benefit of alternative fuel cycles and technologies. Supervised a Ph. D student in the development of an advanced tool for nuclear fuel safety analysis.

Polytechnic Institute
Torino, Italy
Research associate (May 1997 to April 1998)
Devised an innovative methodology to detect flaws in materials by using ultrasonic waves and Genetic Algorithms. Developed models to study the non-linear evolution of cancer cells in soft tissues and investigate the effect of chemicals and irradiation on their growth.

HONORS
• Recipient of Seed Action Grant, Paul Scherrer Institute, 2005.
• Recipient of the Manson Benedict Fellowship, MIT 2001.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Served as referee for:
• Journal of Nuclear Materials
• Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
• Nuclear Engineering and Design
• Journal of Alloys and Compounds

STRENGTHS
General Strengths: management, strategic planning, capability assessments, project management, six sigma, self starter, problem solver, imaginative, able to develop new ideas and lead.
Technical writing: 13 year experience writing technical reports, proposals and scientific publications in international journals and conferences (more than 40 contributions)
Computer Programming: C (12-year experience); Several nuclear design codes;




List of Publications

JOURNALS

1. ***** A. and Aguirre F. , “Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Quality Control”. Nuclear España 309 (2010) ***** ;

2. ***** A. , Shaffler C. A. , Garkisch H. D. , Olander D. R. and Todreas N. E. , “Fuel Performance Analysis for PWR Cores”, Nucl. Eng. Des. 239 (2009) ***** ;

3. Greenspan E. , Todreas N. E. , Petrovic B. , Diller P. , Ferroni P. , Fratoni M. , Ganda F. , Garkisch H. , Ginex F. , Malen J. , Olander D. , ***** A. , Shuffler C. , Trant J. , “Hydride Fuel for LWRs – Project Overview”, Nucl. Eng. Des. 239 (2009) ***** ;

4. Blair P. , Khvostov G. , ***** A. , Hellwig Ch. and Chawla R. , “Interpretation of high-burnup fuel annealing tests”, J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 45 (2008) ***** ;

5. ***** A. , Horvath M. and Restani R. , “Evolution of Porosity in the High-Burnup Fuel Structure”, J. Nucl. Mater. 361 (2007) ***** ;

6. ***** A. , Li J. and Yip S. , “Atomistic Simulation of Rapid Compression of Fractured Silicon Carbide”, J. Nucl. Mater. 352 (2006) ***** ;

7. Blair P. , ***** A. , Hellwig Ch. and Chawla R. , “Calculations on Fission Gas Behaviour in the High-Burnup Structure”, J. Nucl. Mater. 350 (2006) ***** ;

8. ***** A. , Wallin H. , Zimmermann M. A. and Chawla R. , “Modeling the CABRI High-Burnup CIP0-1 RIA Test Using the FALCON Fuel Behavior Code”, Nucl. Eng. Des. 236 (2006) ***** ;

9. ***** A. , Boscher T. , Hejzlar P. , Kazimi M. S. and Todreas N. E. , “Implications of Alternative Strategies for Transitions to Sustainable Fuel Cycles”, Nucl. Sci. Eng. 154 (2006) 1-27;

10. ***** A. , Hejzlar P. and Todreas N. E. , “Fertile-Free Fast Lead-Cooled Incinerators for Efficient Actinide Burning”, Nucl. Technol. 147 (2004) ***** ;

11. ***** A. , Bertolus M. , Defranceschi M. , Yip S. , “Modeling SiC swelling under irradiation: influence of amorphization”, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 202 (2003) ***** ;

12. ***** A. , Li J. and Yip S. , “Atomistic simulation of matter under stress: crossover from hard to soft materials”, Physica A 304 (2002) ***** ;

13. ***** A. , Todreas N. E. , “A methodology for selecting high T/H performance fuel configurations for tightly packed epithermal core designs”, Nucl. Technol. 139 (2002) ***** ;

14. Delsanto P. P. , ***** A. , Scalerandi M. , Pescarmona G. P. , “Analysis of a Phase Transition from Tumor Growth to Latency “, Phys. Rev. E 62 (2000) ***** ;

15. Scalerandi M. , ***** A. , Pescarmona G. P. , Delsanto P. P. , “Nutrient Competition as a Determinant for Cancer Growth”, Phys. Rev. E 59 (1999) ***** ;

16. Scalerandi M. , ***** A. , Condat C. A. , Korteweg-de Vries Solitons Under Stochastic Perturbations”, Phys. Rev. E 58 (1998) ***** ;

17. Delsanto P. P. , ***** A. , Scalerandi M. , Moldoveanu F. , “Application of Genetic Algorithms to Ultrasonic Tomography”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104 (1998) ***** ;

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

18. Batra N. K. , Delsanto P. P. , ***** A. , Scalerandi M. , “Acoustic wave interferometers”, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, v. 1 pp. ***** (John G. Webster Editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ) 1999;

CONFERENCE PAPERS

19. Doncel N. , Pastor I. and ***** A. , “TREQ: Modelo de Comportamiento Termo-Mecánico del Combustible”, Proceedings of the SNE, Murcia, Spain, October 2008;

20. ***** A. , Tverberg T. and Colombier V. , “Modeling the IFA-681 Test with the TREQ Fuel Performance Code”, Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting 2008, Loen, 18 – 23 May, 2008;

21. ***** A. and Muñoz Reja C. , “Investigating the Role of Point Defect Equilibrium on the Sintering Behavior of Gadolinia Fuel”, 2008 Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting, Seoul, Korea, October 19 – 22, 2008;

22. ***** A. , “Applicación de métodos de optimización en diseño termomecanico del combustible nuclear”, Proceedings of the SNE, Segovia, Spain, ***** November 2007;

23. Khvostov G. , ***** A. , Zimmermann M. A. , “Modeling the effects of axial fuel relocation in the IFA650. 4 LOCA test”, Proceedings of the Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting 2007, Gol, Norway, ***** March, 2007;

24. Iannuzzi M. , ***** A. , Samaras M. , Zimmermann M. A. , “Mechanical Behavior of Bulk UO2 by MD Simulations”, MRS Fall Meeting 2006, Boston, USA, 27 Nov -1 Dec, 2006;

25. Aounallah Y. , Khvostov G. , ***** A. , Wallin H, Zimmermann M. A. , Kolstad E. , Ek M. and Kekkonen L. , “Coupling Trace and Falcon to Model the IFA-650. 3 and IFA650. 4 Halden LOCA Tests: First Assessment of the Relocation Hypothesis”, Proceedings of the 2006 International Meeting on LWR Fuel Performance, Salamanca, Spain, ***** October, 2006;

26. ***** A. and Zimmermann M. A. , “Effect of the Power Pulse Shape on the Fuel Thermal-Mechanical Response to RIAs: a Study Using FALCON and SCANAIR”, Proceedings of the 2005 International Meeting on LWR Fuel Performance, Kyoto, Japan, 2-6 October, 2005;

27. Greenspan E. , Ganda F. , Shayer Z. , Todreas N. E. , Malen J. , Shuffler C. , Trant J. , ***** A. , Petrovic B. , Garkish H. , “Optimization of UO2 Fueled PWR Core Design”, Proceedings of ICAPP’05, Paper 5569, Seoul, Korea, May ***** , 2005;

28. Long Y. , Yuan Y. , ***** A and Kazimi M. S. , “Fission Gas Release and Fuel Swelling Models of Heterogeneous Fuels for Plutonium Burning”, Proceedings of the 2004 International Meeting on LWR Fuel Performance, Paper #1057, Orlando, Florida, September ***** , 2004;

29. Liu W. , ***** A. and Kazimi M. S. , “Modeling High-Burnup LWR Fuel Fission Gas Release and Swelling during Fast Transients”, Proceedings of the 2004 International Meeting on LWR Fuel Performance, Paper #1056, Orlando Florida, September ***** , 2004;

30. Malen J. A. , Todreas N. E. and ***** A. , Thermal-Hydraulic Design of Hydride Fuelled PWR Cores”, Proc. of the 6th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety, Nara, Japan, October 4 – ***** ;

31. ***** A. , Hejzlar P. and Todreas N. E. , “Safe and Economic Fertile-Free, Lead-Cooled Minor Actinide Burner”, Proc. of the GLOBAL’ 03 Conference, New Orleans, USA, ***** November (2003);

32. ***** A. , Hejzlar P. and Todreas N. E. , “An Innovative Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor for Actinide Incineration”, Proc. of the GENES4-ANP2003 Conference, Kyoto, Japan, ***** September (2003);

33. ***** A. , Kriventsev V. , Ninokata H. , Todreas N. E. “Novel fuel configurations for the IRIS reactor”, Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Nuclear Engineering, Nice, France 2001;

TECHNICAL REPORTS

34. ***** A. , “On Call 35: TRANSURANUS Calculations of the Performance of Three Fuel Designs for KKG”, PSI Technical Report TM- ***** -XX, March ***** ;

35. Wallin H. , Aounallah Y. and ***** A. , “Modelling the IFA650. 3 Halden LOCA test coupling TRACE and FALCON” PSI Technical Report TM- ***** -01, February 2006;

36. Shuffler C. A. , Todreas N. E. , Trant J. M. and ***** A. , “Thermal Hydraulic and Economic Analysis of Grid Supported Hydride Fueled PWR’s", MIT-NFC-TR-077, MIT, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, (September 2006);

37. ***** A. and Wallin H. , “Application of the FALCON and TRANSURANUS Fuel Performance Codes to Predict Measured Fission Gas Releases from the KKL Reactor”, PSI Technical Report TM- ***** , October 2005;

38. Shuffler C. , Trant J. , Todreas N. E. and ***** A. , “Application of Hydride Fuels to Enhance Pressurized Water Reactor Performance”, MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-TR-072, April 2005;

39. Boscher T. , Hejzlar P. , Kazimi M. S. , Todreas N. E. and ***** A. , “Alternative Fuel Cycle Strategies for Nuclear Power Generation in the 21st Century”, MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-TR-070, December 2004;

40. Boscher T. , ***** A. , Hejzlar P. , Kazimi M. S. and Todreas N. E. , “The CAFCA Code for Simulation of Nuclear Fuel Cycles: Description of Methodologies, Assumptions and Initial Results”, MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-PR-069, November 2004;

41. ***** A. , Wallin H. and Zimmermann M. A. , ”Modelling Reactivity Initiated Accident Experiments with FALCON and SCANAIR: a Comparison”, PSI Annual Report 2004, vol. 4 (2005);

42. ***** A. , “Comparing the Performance of FALCON and SCANAIR against Selected CABRI Rep-Na RIA Experiments”, PSI Technical Report TM- ***** , (2004);

43. ***** A. , “On Call 33: Determination of Steady-State Enthalpies in MOX Fuel and HFP RIA Behaviours for KKB and KKG Limiting Power Histories”, PSI Technical Report TM- ***** , November 2004;

44. Malen J. A. , Todreas N. E. and ***** A. , “Thermal Hydraulic Design of Hydride Fueled Pressurized Water Reactor Cores”, MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-TR-062 March 2004;

45. ***** A. , Hejzlar P. and Todreas N. E. , “Optimization of Actinide Transmutation in Innovative Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors”, MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-TR-059, October 2003;

46. ***** A. , Hejzlar P. and Todreas N. E. , “Dedicated Fast Reactors for Efficient Minor Actinides Incineration: Neutronic Design of a Pb-Bi Cooled Concept” MIT Technical Report MIT-NFC-TR-050 October 2002;

47. ***** A. , Todreas N. E. , “Analysis of novel fuel geometries for IRIS”, MIT Technical Report MIT-ANP-TR-72, June 2000;

48. ***** A. , Todreas N. E. , “Evaluation of CHF methods for novel fuel geometries”, MIT Technical Report MIT-ANP-TR-71, May 2000.