Professor WE (Bill) Lee, FREng FLSW

Bill is Chief Scientific Advisor Nuclear for the UK MoD, Sêr Cymru Professor of Materials in Extreme Environments at Bangor University in Wales, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Security Science and Technology Imperial College London. His research interests include use of ceramics in extreme environments including as nuclear fuels and wasteforms. He has supervised 67 students to successful completion of their PhD and published over 450 papers and 5 books. He was a member of the UK’s Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB) from 2014-16 and Deputy Chair of the Government advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) from 2007-2013. He served on a US National Academies Committee assessing the DOE Defense Environmental Cleanup Program (2017-19) which reported to Congress Feb 2019.