Temitope Taiwo is the Director of Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Division. He has worked in the nuclear industry, research laboratory, and U.S. government in the areas of nuclear reactor design, methods development, and analysis.  Dr. Taiwo is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

Christopher Grandy has over 35 years of experience in nuclear-related technical areas such as nuclear reactor operations, waste treatment system development, and research, development, and design of advanced reactor structures, systems, and components. His experience has been gained through a wide range of engineering and management assignments at Argonne National Laboratory and in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. 

Hussein S. Khalil is director of Argonne’s Nuclear Engineering research program. He provides technical leadership for the Lab’s research in nuclear energy development and application. He joined Argonne in 1983 and has carried out research to optimize fast-reactor core design and improve computational methods for reactor physics, dynamics and fuel cycle analysis. Dr. Khalil is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. 

Robert Hill leads Advanced Nuclear Energy Research and Development within the Nuclear Science and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He has over twenty five years of experience with research focus on reactor physics, fast reactor core design, plutonium disposition, and waste management.

Michael Billone is the Irradiation Performance Lead in Argonne National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science and Engineering division. He has 40 years of experience in the behavior of metallic and ceramic fuels, and structural materials used in fission and fusion nuclear reactor designs. This experience includes modeling the irradiation, thermal and mechanical behavior of these materials in fission and fusion reactor environments. 

Dr. Farmer is a Senior Nuclear Engineer in Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) Division.  He has over thirty years of experience in various R&D areas related to reactor development, design, and safety, and has also been involved in the analysis, design, and conduct of experiments related to operations and safety of Generation IV reactor concepts.

Dr. Fanning received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin and has worked at Argonne National Laboratory since 1994. He has made significant contributions in the areas of core design, fuel cycle analysis, waste form development, repository modeling, advanced systems modeling, and reactor safety. 

Tanju Sofu is a senior program manager for modeling, simulation and licensing. He currently serves as the Deputy National Technical Director for the DOE’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling & Simulation (NEAMS) program. His responsibilities include providing programmatic guidance for multi-laboratory efforts on development of methods and tools for design, analysis, and licensing of innovative nuclear reactor concepts. He also serves as a U.S. representative to OECD/NEA’s Generation-IV International Forum (GIF) Risk and Safety Working Group.

John Stevens leads the Reactor Material Management Programs in Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Division, whose teams perform reactor conversion design and analysis, in addition to contributing to development of advanced fuels. He is a reactor physicist with over 30 years of engineering experience. John also serves as a Relationship Manager in DNN MMM (NA-23) for Argonne’s National Security Programs.

Rui Hu is the Manager of the Safety & Engineering Analysis Department within Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Division. He provides technical leadership for a variety of activities on reactor safety, thermal fluids methods, multi-physics modeling and simulations, and advanced reactor analysis. He also leads the development of an advanced system analysis tool, SAM, for advanced non-LWR safety analysis.

Dr. Taek K. Kim is the Manager for the Nuclear Systems Analysis Group in Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Division. He is a principal nuclear engineer responsible for technical leadership and programmatic guidance of a variety of activities on reactor physics, neutronics methods and simulations, advanced reactor concept development, and nuclear fuel cycle analysis. 

Richard Vilim is a Senior Engineer in the Nuclear Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is the author of more than 280 papers and reports involving instrumentation and control, safety analysis, and modeling and simulation methods for current and advanced nuclear power plants.

Dr. Wilson has over 20 years of research and development experience in industry and government in the design, qualification, and commercial deployment of surface-engineered components for nuclear and non-nuclear applications. His nuclear engineering and materials science projects have included advanced reactor design and licensing with nuclear quality assurance standards.