Amparo Gonzalez-Espartero has more than 30 years of professional experience in the nuclear energy field, mainly on spent fuel and radioactive waste management and on development of advanced nuclear fuel cycle options for Gen-IV reactors, including SMRs.
She obtained her Ph.D. (1999), M.S. (1989) and B.S. (1987) in Chemistry by Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM).
From 1991 to 2014, she worked for the Spanish National Laboratory CIEMAT in different capacities, as Senior Researcher, Section Head and Deputy Secretary General.
Since 2015, she works at the IAEA as Technical Lead of Spent Fuel Management Team in the Department of Nuclear Energy.
She has been scientific secretary of the IAEA International Conference on Fast Reactors (FR17, Yekaterinburg 2017 and FR22, Vienna 2022) and the IAEA International Conference on Spent Fuel Management (Vienna, 2019). She has participated in several EC-R&D Projects, been author of scientific papers in peer-review journals, presented oral communications in conferences and led and contributed to IAEA recent publications.