Michael L. Corradini
Chair of Engineering Physics and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael L. Corradini is Chair of Engineering Physics and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served from 1995 to 2001 as Associate Dean for the College of Engineering. He also holds appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Environmental Studies. Previously, at Sandia National Laboratories he was principal investigator for the LWR vapor explosion research for the USNRC as well as other severe accident research. He was chosen as a NSF Presidential Young Investigator in Nuclear Reactor Safety in 1984. He has been a consultant for fifteen years to the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards in severe accidents, containment systems, and multiphase flow as well as many DOE National Laboratories, the AECL and CEC. He was Vice-Chairman of the 1985 NRC Steam Explosion Review Group and other NRC safety review panels. He has published widely in areas related to vapor explosion phenomena, jet spray dynamics, and transport phenomena in multiphase systems. He was elected a 1990 Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was also served as a presidential appointee in 2002 and 2003 as the chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (a separate government agency). In 2004, he was appointed as a board member of the INPO National Accreditation Board for Nuclear Training and the National Council on Radiation Protection. Most recently, he was appointed to the Scientific advisory board to the French Civilian Atomic Energy Agency. In 2006, he was appointed to the USNRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.