Mirela Gavrilas

Dr. Mirela Gavrilas currently serves as the Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  She is responsible for the development and implementation of security and emergency preparedness policy at U.S. civilian nuclear facilities.  Dr. Gavrilas joined the NRC in 2004 in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research and served in positions of increasing responsibility.  Since becoming a senior executive in 2014, she held management positions for research and test reactors, risk assessment and reactor systems in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR).  Dr. Gavrilas also served as the Deputy Office Director for Engineering and later for Reactor Safety Programs and Mission Support in NRR.  Among Dr. Gavrilas’s most notable contributions to the NRC mission are a methodology forthe probabilistic treatment of safety margins, the construction permit reviewfor the SHINE medical isotope production facility, NRC's original accident tolerant fuel plan, the security portion of the rulemaking for licensingadvanced reactors, and the Be riskSMART decisionmaking framework.  Before joining the NRC, Dr. Gavrilas served on the faculty of the University of Maryland.  She received a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.