Eva C. Uribe

Eva C. Uribe is the discipline manager of the Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Group for the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program at TerraPower, LLC. Her team is responsible for development of material control and accounting plans and program descriptions, and physical and cybersecurity to mitigate threats of special nuclear material sabotage, theft, and diversion. Her team is also responsible for international safeguards by design for MCFR technologies to meet TerraPower’s non-proliferation mission.

Eva was previously a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA, where she worked as a systems research analyst across interdisciplinary teams to conduct systematic, data driven analyses to inform researchers and policymakers in the national security arena. Eva was a 2016-2017 Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where she investigated fissile material production pathways in the thorium fuel cycle. Eva received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. For her dissertation research, she conducted structural analyses of organically-modified porous silica surfaces for the extraction of aqueous actinides using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In 2011 Eva received a B.S. from Yale University with a double major in chemistry and political science. Her interests in nuclear science, technology, and policy began during her time as a Next Generation Safeguards Initiative intern with the Nonproliferation Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2008 and 2009.