Andrea Alfonsi

Dr. Andrea Alfonsi is a distinguished nuclear engineer and scientific innovator with more than 15 years of expertise that spans research and industry. Since joining NuCube Energy in 2023 as the Nuclear Core Design Methods Manager, Dr. Alfonsi has been at the forefront of developing advanced nuclear core technologies that support NuCube’s pioneering approach to clean energy. 

Before joining NuCube, Dr. Alfonsi served as the Nuclear Design and Analysis Functional Manager at Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) from 2021 to 2023. In this position, he led a large, multidisciplinary team of engineers in USNC’s Advanced Technology division, guiding the technical strategy for designing nuclear systems intended for space applications. Under his leadership, his team achieved critical milestones, addressing the unique challenges of space environments, pushing the boundaries of nuclear applications beyond Earth.

Dr. Alfonsi spent over a decade at Idaho National Laboratory, leading transformative projects like, and not only, RAVEN, an AI-aided platform for data and risk analysis, and PHISICS, an advanced reactor physics toolkit. These innovations tackled methodological challenges in uncertainty quantification, safety assessment, and core design, showcasing his expertise in advancing nuclear engineering technologies.

Dr. Alfonsi’s technical expertise is further evidenced by his extensive research output, including over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, more than 65 papers at international conferences, and over 40 technical reports. His research contributions cover advanced reactor design, reduced-order modeling, and innovative methods in reactor physics, safety analysis and PRA. His scientific background is anchored by a Ph.D. in Energy (Nuclear) Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza," in Italy.