JUAREZ MARTINEZ, LUIS CARLOS

I hold a Ph.D. in Engineering (Energy) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I am a Chemical Engineer by training and have a Master's degree focused on environmental radioactivity.

My Doctoral research was conducted within the Nuclear Engineering Group of the Faculty of Engineering (UNAM), where I focused on the design and analysis of lead-cooled fast reactors for fuel breeding and minor actinide transmutation. During my Ph.D., I completed a research internship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, where I received training in the use of the deterministic reactor physics code KANEXT.

From 2019 to 2021, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Process Simulation Lab at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa (UAM-I), where I conducted research on the use of nuclear reactors for hydrogen production.

I am an active member of the Mexican Nuclear Society (SNM) and I have presented my work at national and international conferences.

My research interests include reactor physics & dynamics, fuel depletion, minor actinide transmutation, and nuclear power cogeneration.