Luiz C. Leal

Luiz Leal works at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Nuclear Data group of the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division. In the past he worked at Argonne National Laboratory from 1990 to 1993 and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) from 1993 to 2015. From 2015 to 2023 he worked at the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France. Throughout his career. He has actively collaborated with faculty members and co-advised students in many universities, in the US and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and 2016 Reactor Physics Division (RPD) recipient of the Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award and the 2023 ANS Seaborg Medal recipient. Luiz is a member of the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG). Luiz received a PhD from the Nuclear Engineering Department of the University of Tennessee in 1990. Luiz received the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)” from the Université Paris-Sud, France in 2016. This is the highest academic degree in Europe, in particular France.