Francesco Ganda (IAEA)
L'incontro fa parte del ciclo 2023-24 "Past-students and Expert Webinars in Nuclear Energy", un programma di webinar sull'energia nucleare tenuti da ex-studenti unipi ed esperti internazionali.
Il ciclo è organizzato nell'ambito del progetto ENEN2plus, dell'European Nuclear Education Network.
I webinar si tengono il venerdì pomeriggio.
Francesco Ganda currently leads the non-electric applications project at the IAEA. The project helps MS with using nuclear plants for things other than electricity, including hydrogen production, district heating, desalination, industrial uses of nuclear heat etc. Prior to that, as a nuclear engineering expert in the IAEA INPRO section, Francesco developed the IAEA FRAMES model to assess integrated nuclear and renewable in modern electricity systems. Before joining the IAEA, Francesco spent a decade in the US National Laboratories, performing neutronic evaluations of advanced reactors and leading the nuclear economics research activities of the US Department of Energy, as part of the programmatic efforts of the system analysis and integration campaign. He holds a PhD and MS in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
