Assil Halimi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT and co-president of the American Nuclear Society student section at MIT. His research focuses on nuclear fuel performance, thermal hydraulics and reactor design and safety. Currently, he is involved in assessing high burnup fuels for light water reactors and developing new nuclear reactor and plant designs. He graduated from the University of Lyon, France in Mathematics and Economics 18’ and holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering 20’ from Institut National des Science Appliquées (INSA Lyon) and in Nuclear Engineering 19’ from Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires (INSTN-CEA, Paris-Saclay). Before joining the graduate program at MIT, he worked as a Core Physics Engineer at ENGIE, the operator of the Belgian nuclear power plants. In the past, he interned at several organizations in Africa, Europe, and the U.S. working on various technology applications such as: aircraft electric propulsion (Safran Group), Oil and Gas distribution (Sonatrach Group), turbine maintenance (GE Power) and system-design platforms and education (National Instruments).

Deborah Gerson, MD, Board of Directors, NH HWCA introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A session.