Aditi Verma

• Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan

Dr. Aditi Verma joined NERS in the Fall of 2021 as an Assistant Research Scientist and became an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022. She will also support and interact with the Fastest Path team as a Faculty Associate. Verma is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs's Project on Managing the Atom, and former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center where she was jointly appointed by the Project on Managing the Atom and the International Security Program.

Aditi holds a BS and PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her doctoral research, funded by the Sloan Foundation and a Spira Fellowship, combined theoretical and methodological resources from design studies and sociology to study how reactor designers make decisions in the foundational early stages of design, particularly those bearing on safety. She was a two-time recipient of the Kelly Douglas Fellowship and a Burchard Scholar at MIT. Aditi has also previously worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Framatome (formerly Areva), and the Center for the Study of Science, Technology and Policy.

• –present Nuclear analyst, OECD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Science and Engineering

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