Francisco A. Hernández

Francisco Alberto Hernández González (Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in industrial engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in 2016. From 2006 to 2009, he was an Automobile Design Development Engineer with EDAG GmbH. In 2009, he was a Product Engineer with RDT Ingenieros, Barcelona, Spain. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Goal Oriented Trainee with EFDA, where he collaborated in the conceptual design of the Breeder Unit for the ITER HCPB TBM concept. From 2013 to 2016, he performed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in solid breeder blankets, while he collaborated in the engineering design and procurement of subcomponents of the ITER HCPB TBM for F4E. In 2015, he was appointed as a Lead Engineer for the development of the HCPB concept for the EU DEMO in the frame of the work package breeder blanket with EUROfusion. In 2021, he was the System Design Lead of the Breeding Blanket with the DEMO Central Team, EUROfusion. In 2022, he was the Head of the Design and Analysis of Nuclear Components, Fabrication and Qualification (DAF) Department, Institute of Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), KIT, as well as the Breeding Blanket Task Force Lead of KIT. Since 2023, he has been the Project Leader of the Work Package Breeding Blanket with EUROfusion. He has authored and coauthored more than 60 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Hernández González is a member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), where he has been elected as a member of the NPSS Fusion Technology Standing Committee.