Dr. Benjamin Baker is a reactor designer at INL, where he has combined experience in experimental reactor physics, reactor analysis, reactor operations, reactor design and the stronger than normal understanding of the licensing process. He has lead teams as the MARVEL instrumentation and control (I&C) lead and worked as an individual contributor. He is currently a senior ranking member of the MARVEL design team and the subject matter expert for the Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) at TREAT.

With 20 years of experience in the nuclear field and the most recent experience in reactor design, Dr. Baker has learned how to adapt to the many different challenges posed to a reactor design which requires applying all the engineering disciples to find solutions using back of the hand estimations for scoping. He is most expert in reactor kinetics, neutronics analysis, instrumentation and control and software development. His academic background includes a PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering based on experimental reactor physics from Idaho State University. He was on the ISU reactor safety committee for 9 years.

He was recognized as the ISU outstanding student in 2014. He was the only nuclear engineer to receive a Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) fellowship in 2009-2010; received honorary status because of receiving the Nuclear Energy University Partnership (NEUP) fellowship in addition.