L'incontro fa parte del ciclo 2023 "Past-students and Expert Webinars in Nuclear Energy", un programma di webinar sull'energia nucleare tenuti da ex-studenti unipi ed esperti internazionali.
Il ciclo è organizzato nell'ambito del progetto ENEN2plus, dell'European Nuclear Education Network.
Claudia Gasparrini is a nuclear materials scientist and Chair of the Italian Nuclear Young Generation (gathering under 40 professionals and students affiliated to Associazione Italiana Nucleare). Academic Visitor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London she was a Business Development Manager in RINA and previously a researcher and fellow at Consorzio RFX where she worked on materials performance in nuclear fusion systems thanks to a EUROfusion Engineering Grant linked to the Divertor Tokamak Test and ITER Neutral Beam Test Facilities . Previously she worked as a Research Associate at Imperial College London investigating neutron irradiation embrittlement of nuclear reactors pressure vessel steels in collaboration with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia and the UKAEA Materials Research Facility (MRF), UK. She obtained a PhD in Nuclear Materials and Ceramics from Imperial College London focusing on oxidation of non-oxide nuclear fuels in collaboration with National Nuclear Laboratory, UK, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Cadarache and Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, France. She worked in Japan as a Decommissioning Engineer intern for the UK ABWR in Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. She holds a BSc and MSc in Chemical and Process Engineering from Padua University, Italy specialising in Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden.
