Dr. Epiney obtained his Master of Science MSc degree in Physics in 2005 from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Following his Master degree, Dr. Epiney worked at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in collaboration with the EPFL in Switzerland and CEA in France on his Ph.D. thesis in Physics which he successfully defended in 2010.

Dr. Epiney’s research interests include nuclear thermal-hydraulics, neutronincs as well as economics; especially thermal-hydraulic safety analysis, in-core and system design and modelling, multi-physics simulations using coupled neutronics and thermal-hydraulics, economical performance analysis of power plants, code development as well as uncertainty quantification and propagation.

After his PhD, Dr. Epiney worked at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the Reactor Physics Analysis and Design department where he helped develop the reactor analysis code package PHISICS and its coupling to RELAP5-3D, a thermal-hydraulic system code, making PHISICS a comprehensive reactor physics package for reactor design and safety analysis.

From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Epiney left the INL to go back to Switzerland working once more at PSI. During this time, he was the lead analyst for the thermal hydraulic safety calculations for one for the Swiss boiling water reactors.

Dr. Epiney currently works in the Nuclear Engineering Methods Development department at INL where his research includes a modeling and simulation effort called HYBRID which goal is to assess the economic viability of hybrid nuclear systems in a market that contains renewable energy sources like wind or solar. Furthermore, Dr. Epiney is involved in core and system analysis for LWRs as well as HTRs using the PHISICS/RELAP5-3D code package he helped develop.

Nuclear thermal-hydraulics, Neutronincs, Economics, Thermal-hydraulic safety analysis, In-core and system, design and modelling, Multi-physics simulations