International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2024 Plenary SPeaker

Dr. Temitope Taiwo

Director

Nuclear Science and Engineering Division

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Dr. 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 reactor design, methods development, and analysis. He has been at Argonne since 1990 and in that time has led research teams and developed computational tools and methods and performed analysis of nuclear energy systems, including fast and thermal reactors. Dr. Taiwo was previously the National Technical Director of the Systems Analysis and Integration Campaign of the DOE Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain office. He was formerly a co-Dean of the Modeling, Experimentation and Validation (MeV) Summer School. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the society. Dr. Taiwo has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Ife, Nigeria.