Hamid Aït Abderrahim
Prof. Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim is the General Manager of MYRRHA. He was Deputy Director-General of SCK CEN2, the Belgian nuclear research center. He lectures reactor physics and nuclear engineering at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and at the mechanical engineering department of the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL3).
Since 1998, he is the director of the MYRRHA4 project, an accelerator driven system (ADS) coupling a sub-critical Pb-Bi cooled reactor and a high power proton linear accelerator through a spallation target.
He is or has been coordinator of various projects of the European Commission framework programme related to advanced nuclear systems and the advanced nuclear fuel cycle.
He is author of more than 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.
In February 2015 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania for his personal achievements and his long term collaboration with the Kaunas University of Technology and more specifically with the Baršauskas Ultrasound Research Institute.
Last but not least in April 2014, he has been honoured by the King of Belgium by nominating him as “Grand Officer in the Crown Order” for his contributions in the scientific representation of Belgium in the field of nuclear energy science and closing the fuel cycle.
