Rainer Moormann studied physical chemistry in Braunschweig, Germany, obtaining his PhD in 1976. From 1976 to 2013 he worked at Research Center Juelich (FZJ) on the safety of pebble bed reactors, fusion reactors, and spallation sources. In 2011 he received the German Whistleblower Prize for publications on widely unknown problems and accidents in German pebble bed reactors.

R. Scott Kemp is the MIT Class of ’43 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy (http://lnsp.mit.edu). His research combines engineering, politics, and history in the search for sustainable energy and international security. He obtained a PhD in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor’s in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017.

Ju Li is the BEA Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He also holds adjunct professorship at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. His group (http://Li.mit.edu) performs computational and experimental research on mechanical properties of materials, and energy storage and conversion. Ju obtained a PhD degree in nuclear engineering from MIT in 2000, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1994. In 2016 Ju Li co-founded one of the MIT Energy Initiative Low-Carbon Energy Centers, the Center for Materials in Energy and Extreme Environments. Ju was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 and a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2017.