About

Prof. Erez Gilad
Professor of Reactor Physics
Chair, Unit of Nuclear Engineering
Founding director, Klein Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering (KINS&E)
Head, Reactor Physics and Neutron Transport Group
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

I am a professor of reactor physics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I have chaired the Unit of Nuclear Engineering since 2022, and I am the founding director of the Klein Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering (KINS&E), an interdisciplinary institute for advanced nuclear science and engineering. I also lead the Reactor Physics and Neutron Transport Group. I joined the BGU faculty in 2014.

My research focuses on reactor core physics: neutron transport theory and numerical methods, reactor kinetics and neutron noise, experimental core physics, and in-core fuel management. I develop rigorous theoretical frameworks and efficient computational tools for modeling, analysis and optimization of advanced nuclear systems, with applications to small modular reactors, microreactors, molten salt reactors and TRISO-fueled systems.

My group develops high-fidelity physics models, HPC-enabled optimization frameworks and hybrid deterministic-stochastic methods. I supervise Ph.D. and M.Sc. students working on microreactor control and core optimization, quasi-static and generalized transport methods, genetic-algorithm-based reactor design, and physics-informed neural networks for flux reconstruction. We collaborate with universities and national laboratories in the U.S. and Europe.

I serve as an Executive Editor of Annals of Nuclear Energy (Elsevier) and as a member of the High Scientific Council of the European Nuclear Society.

Prospective students, researchers and collaborators are welcome to contact me.