Dr. Arturo Bevilacqua, born in 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pursued his Nuclear Engineering degree at the Balseiro Institute in 1985, obtaining his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 1992. His extensive career includes research roles at the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina (CNEA) in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, and the Institute for Transuranium Elements in Karlsruhe, Germany. 

From 2005 to 2010, he led the Nuclear Fuel Materials Development Division at INVAP S.E. and later joined the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna as a Spent Fuel Management Specialist until 2016. From 2019 to 2021, he was appointed Manager of the Radioactive Waste Management National Program of Argentina. 

Arturo has been a pivotal figure at CNEA in various capacities ever since. Throughout his career, he also taught nuclear materials and fuels at the Balseiro Institute, an Argentine academic institution that belongs to the National University of Cuyo and to the National Atomic Energy Commission. 

Bevilacqua's research predominantly surrounds nuclear fuel materials, spent fuel, and radioactive waste management. His significant contributions include a patented manufacturing method of a nuclear fuel rod for water-cooled power reactors, which uses uranium nitride as nuclear fuel material sheathed in silicon carbide, with a solid connection between the two provided by an interface material, silicon nitride or zirconium nitride, which converts the nuclear fuel rod into a monolithic element. 

Currently, he focuses on research into tailor-made fly ash-based inorganic polymer concrete as a green and sustainable alternative to ordinary Portland cement concrete as well as experimental research, development and innovation (RDI) of a green and sustainable Thermochemical Oxidation (TCO) chemistry process to produce single and mixed nanooxides for, among others, the energy (nuclear fuel materials and active materials for battery cathodes), healthcare (contrast materials), cosmetics (UV light filters), construction (green concrete), and petrochemical (catalysts) sectors. 

Furthermore, Arturo is deeply engaged in modeling and simulation work using the modules POLARIS, TRITON, ORIGEN-ARP, ORIGAMI and MAVRIC of the SCALE software suite for RDI of nuclear fuel materials for small modular reactors and large light and heavy water power reactors, production and shielding of radioisotopes for medical applications, and source term - mass, activity and decay power as well as alpha, beta, gamma and neutron spectra - and shielding calculations of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. 

Arturo Bevilacqua serves as Senior International Expert, Consultant and Lecturer of the IAEA and for the period 2023-2028 he is appointed as the Associate Research Scientist of the IAEA Coordinated Research Project T13021 “Challenges and opportunities related to burnup and source terms of spent fuel from water-cooled SMRs”.