Sustainable and successful nuclear energy programme demands a technical infrastructure including a workforce of highly specialized and well-educated professionals. Several teachers will take part to the course program based on the selected modules. A preliminary list is provided here below:

Mr. Mike Modro has over 40 years of experience in research and engineering, including over 30 years in Nuclear Reactor Design, Licensing and Safety Research. His field of expertise includes: Analyses and Research related to Nuclear Power Plant behavior during accident conditions; Assessment and Validation of various Computer Codes used to simulate nuclear plant behavior; Development and conduct of Experimental programmes in support of nuclear safety needs; Programme and line Management, Business and Resource development. He worked over 25 years within the Idaho National Laboratory  (United States) and 6 years as Senior Safety Assessment Officer for the International Atomic Energy Agency (for whom he is currently a Senior Consultant). He is a Guest Lecturer for the Imperial College of London (UK). He has a background in Physics from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the University of Warsaw (Poland).

Dr. Marián Krištof, CEO of the Network of Nuclear Engineering and Energy Services (NNEES), manages the international network of senior experts in the area of nuclear safety assessment and licensing to support various organizations ranging from regulatory authorities, TSOs and research institutes to nuclear power plant operators. He is international consultant specializing on diverse aspects of nuclear safety including TH safety calculations, uncertainty analysis, preparation and/or review of the safety related documentation, preparation of trainings and lectures and management of domestic and international projects in the area of nuclear safety. For several years he is assisting the IAEA in development and implementation of its SAET (Safety Assessment Education and Training) program. The objective of the program is to support the embarking countries in their safety assessment competence building. He worked over a decade for the Slovak regulator as an analyst performing independent safety assessment of the NPPs including code calculations, prepared and reviewed the regulatory documents such as acts, regulations or safety guides and reviewed of the safety related technical documentation to support the regulatory decision-making.

Dr. Alessandro Petruzzi is President of the Board of Directors of Nuclear and INdustrial Engineering (NINE) since 2011. He received Ph.D. in Nuclear and Industrial Safety from University of Pisa where he worked on development of Uncertainty Methods for system thermal-hydraulics codes and application of BEPU methodology to Safety Analysis in Licensing framework. From 2007 to 2013 he acted as deputy manager of GRNSPG (University of Pisa) working on the preparation of Chapter 15 of FSAR of Atucha-2 NPP in Argentina. His current research concentrates on thermal-hydraulics, multi-physics methods for reactor safety analysis, forward and inverse methods for uncertainty quantification and he is member of several NEA working group both at NSC and CSNI. In 2013 he was the main organizer of NURETH-15 in Pisa. 

Professor Mamdouh El-Shanawany is an international expert on nuclear safety. For the last 40 years, he has provided leadership, design, research & development, analysis, management and critical safety assessment, applications of Statutory regulatory requirements and policy development for the nuclear industry in the UK, Canada and Internationally. He was a member of the IAEA team which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2005. He was global Nuclear Technical Director at Lloyd's Register, and visiting Professor of Nuclear Safety Centre for Nuclear Engineering, at the Imperial College, London University. Dr El-Shanawany was the Head of the Safety Assessment Section at the IAEA, The main responsibilities of the Safety Assessment Section are to strengthen Member States’ capabilities (Regulatory Bodies, Designers and Operators) in effective safety assessment and safety enhancement of nuclear installations. He represented the IAEA on the Commission of Nuclear Safety Standards, International Nuclear Safety Group. Also, he represents the IAEA at the OECD/ Nuclear Energy Agency, CSNI and the Technical Steering Committee of the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme. Dr El-Shanawany is an Independent Expert Evaluator for research project allocations, UK Engineering & Physics Science Research Council and Euratom Nuclear Research and Training, European Commission. He was also a member of Generation IV Technical Advisory Committee of the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry. El-Shanawany is also an excellent communicator and mentor, able to understand issues in a multi-dimensional environment, providing solutions that support various stakeholders. Prior to joining the IAEA, he was employed by Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, the UK Regulatory Body, where he was responsible for managing, assessing and formally agreeing and accepting the Licensees’ arrangements and safety cases for faults studies and severe accidents analysis for the operating plants. He holds a PhD in Thermal Power Section from the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London). 

Professor Nikola Popov has over 38 years of experience in the Nuclear sector in Canada and internationally. His field of work includes Thermal-Hydraulics, Safety Analysis, Licensing, Computer Codes Development and Validation and Severe Accident analysis. He is Adjunct Professor at McMaster University for the UNENE program (reactor thermal-hydraulics design and reactor thermal-hydraulics analysis) and also an Adjunct Professor at the University Cyril and Methodius- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in Macedonia. He worked 23 years at the Atomic Energy of Canada (1988-2011), the last 3 years as the Director for Safety and Licensing. He also worked at SNC-Lavalin-Nuclear as Director of Safety and Licensing (2011-2014). He provides nuclear engineering consulting and educational services to several important institutions, including Ontario Power Generation, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, CANDU Owners Group, etc. Dr. Popov was involved and managed various projects at AECL, such as the licensing of advanced CANDU reactor in Canada, USA, UK, and other countries. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.  

Dr. Artur Lyubarskiy has over 33 year experience in the Nuclear Field. His field of expertise includes: Safety Assessment of Nuclear Installations (Nuclear Power Plants and Research Reactors); specific expertise in Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for all events and hazards: internal IEs, internal hazards (fires/floods, etc.), external hazards (natural and human –induced); Integrated Risk-Informed Decision Making Process. He has worked in Russia, Europe and the United States, including over ten years for the Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SECNRS) of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Russia, and 8 years for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (Austria). He has been lecturing in more than 30 course on Safety Assessment, PSA and IRIDM during his work for the IAEA between 2008-2015. He holds a PhD from the Atomic Energy Technology University in Obninsk (Russia).  

Professor Kostadin Ivanov has been working in the Nuclear field for over 34 years. His field of expertise includes: Reactor Physics; Methods in Static and Dynamic Analysis; Nuclear Power Plant Modeling and Safety; Fuel Management and Core Design; Verification and Validation of Multi-Physics simulations. He has worked over ten years for the Pennsylvania State University as Distinguished Professor including Graduate Coordinator of Nuclear Engineering Programme, and for two years as Visiting Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in Germany. Since 2015 he is Professor and Department Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the North Carolina State University (USA). He was and currently is in charge as leading scientist of several international benchmarks organized under the umbrella of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). His work has been published on hundreds of academic and international journals and conference proceedings. He holds a PhD in Reactor Physics from the Bulgarian Academy of Science. 

Dr. Walter Giannotti has PhD graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Pisa University. He is a senior nuclear engineering of the Nuclear and Industrial Engineering srl (NINE). He has more than twenty years of experience working in the system thermal-hydraulics safety analysis. He performed code applications for safety analysis o PWR, BWR, VVER and PHWR nuclear power plant related to thermal-hydraulic and severe accident analysis. He worked on Code Assessment (Relap, Cathare, Melcor, Smart) and Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty Methods (UMAE). From 1996 to 2012 he was a consultant of University of Pisa in the EU Tacis Project devoted to Deterministic safety analysis for VVER, RBMK and the preparation of the Chapter 15 of FSAR for the Argentinean NPP Atucha-2, SA analysis (Melcor, SCDAP, Gothic codes) of WWER (Temelin, Kozloduy), RBMK (Ignalina), PWR (Angra), PHWR (Atucha). He was senior expert in ”European Project for Technical Assistance for Implementing Nuclear Safety Project - Thermo-hydraulic experiments at the PSB-RBMK integral Test facility”. He performed, as tutor, courses concerning Nuclear Safety for VATESI-Lithuania (spent fuel), CNEN-Brasil (severe accident), CNPE-China (severe accident), ANRA-Armenia (safety analysis).  From 2013 is a consultant of IAEA for supporting the development of nuclear competences in severe accident. He is in the Task Group WGAMA - OECD for “Long-term management guide” and “Informing SAM guidance and actions”. In 2012 he worked as nuclear expert in the ”Final Design for the EUREX plant in Saluggia of the Waste Management Facility (WMF)”. He is qualified radioprotection expert (first level) and he is involved in radioprotection field (shielding and safety analysis) in nuclear and conventional environment. 

Dr. Marco Cherubini is the Vice-President of NINE and current Head of the Core Behavior Area devoted to prediction and analysis of NPP core by different disciplines viewpoint. Prior to join NINE, he worked over 7 years in the Nuclear Research Group of San Piero a Grado (GRNSPG) being responsible for System Thermal-Hydraulics simulations. He got his PhD Degree in “Nuclear and Industrial Safety” Course of the “Leonardo da Vinci” Doctoral Engineering School in 2008, discussing a thesis dealing with Accident Management in VVER-1000. In the last three years Nuclear fuel behavior became his first priority topic of interest, continuing its involvement in thermal hydraulics activities. He is taking part at different International OECD-NEA and IAEA activities including code benchmarking, noticeably for the nuclear fuel.

Dr. Irina Kuzmina is an expert in the area of development, application, and review of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants, risk-informed decision making, and probabilistic safety goals.
She resigned from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2017 after having worked there for 14 years as a safety assessment specialist. During her work at the IAEA, she conducted numerous international activities dealing with knowledge sharing/information exchange and building competence and capacity for safety assessment in countries embarking on nuclear power programs including training events, workshops, and PSA review activities. She was also responsible for conducting several international IAEA projects aimed at developing guidance documents in the area of PSA including IAEA Safety Guide on Development and Application of Level-1 PSA for Nuclear Power Plants (SSG-3) published by IAEA in 2010.
She holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from Obninsk Atomic Institute (Russia).