Tanju Sofu

Tanju Sofu is a senior program manager for modeling, simulation and licensing. He joined Argonne in 1992 after receiving his degree in nuclear engineering from University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Throughout his long career, he contributed to numerous computational physics and fluid dynamics projects on methods development and engineering applications under various DOE programs and international collaborations. 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.