International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2024 Plenary SPeaker

Hakim Ferroukhi

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Hakim Ferroukhi studied applied physics at the polytechnic institute of Uppsala University, Sweden. In 1996, he was enrolled as nuclear engineer at ABB Atom (now Westinghouse), a provider of boiling water reactor technology. There, he was primarily responsible for 3-D stability analyses and reactivity accident simulations in the context of plant modernizations and fuel design developments. In 1999, he joined PSI at the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and System Behaviour (LRS). His main task was the development and qualification of 3D core simulation methods for steady-state and transient multi-physics analyses. In 2007, he was appointed head of the core behaviour group and in 2009, he took over the management of STARS, a multidisciplinary modelling research program with focus on neutronics, thermo-hydraulics and thermomechanical simulations. In 2016, he became head of the LRS and in 2018, he took over the management of the newly created laboratory for Reactor Physics and Thermo-hydraulics (LRT) with focus on modelling and experimental nuclear safety research. Since 2011, he is also lecturer at the ETH Zürich/EPF Lausanne deferral institutes of technology where he is responsible for the Nuclear Computation Laboratory course for the Swiss nuclear engineering master program. Internationally, he is the Swiss representative for the IAEA “Technical Working Group for Light Water Reactors” and also a member of the “Technical Board Reactor Safety” of the European network of technical safety organizations ETSON. At the OECD/NEA level and within the nuclear science committee, he is currently chairman of the expert group on the physics of reactor systems and vice chairman of the working party on scientific issues and uncertainty analysis of reactor systems.