Ivor Clifford

Group Leader, group System Behaviour at Paul Scherrer Institut PSI

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Ivor Clifford is currently the group leader for the System Behaviour group at the Paul Scherrer Institut, with a focus on thermal-fluids safety analysis and methods development for Light Water nuclear Reactors (LWRs). He obtained his PhD in 2013 and has worked as a scientist and researcher in the nuclear industry for more than 10 years. He has been extensively involved in the research, development, reverse engineering and maintenance of nuclear reactor safety analysis codes. He is a specialist in CFD and numerical methods development using the OpenFOAM framework.

Experience

  • Paul Scherrer Institut PSI (13 yrs)
    • Group Leader, System Behaviour
      Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos

    • Deputy Group Leader, System Behaviour
      Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Scientific Officer
      Aug 2013 - Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Graduate Nuclear Engineering Fellow at The Idaho National Laboratory
    Jan 2013 - May 2013 · 5 mos

  • Ph.D Student at The Pennsylvania State University
    Aug 2009 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Reactor Design and Fuel Management Group, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Doctoral research in Nuclear Engineering - Development of a three-dimensional time-dependent Simplified P3 neutronics solver - Development of a coarse mesh CFD solver for prismatic high temperature nuclear reactors - Development of hierarchical multi-scale CFD methods for prismatic high temperature reactors

  • Graduate Nuclear Engineering Fellow at The Idaho National Laboratory
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 · 5 mos

    Fuel Modeling and Simulation, Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)

  • Graduate Nuclear Engineering Fellow at The Idaho National Laboratory
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 · 3 mos

    Fuel Modeling and Simulation, Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)