Cristina Muñoz-Reja

Cristina Muñoz-Reja holds an MSc in Inorganic Chemistry and Solid State and a Degree in Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her professional career spans various positions in the high technology ceramics industry and research institutions in the materials field, including the Instituto de Materiales de Asturias. Since 1992, she has worked at ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas S.A., S.M.E., a Spanish company dedicated to the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, where she has held several management positions in engineering and, since the past three years, she has served as Director of R&D and Innovation, overseeing and promoting ENUSA’s research and innovation activities across all business areas, not limited to the nuclear field.
From the very beginning of her career at ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas, Cristina has been involved in every stage of the nuclear fuel lifecycle—from component supply to final storage. Her more than 30 years’ experience spans fuel design, manufacturing, performance assessment, and licensing activities across several European countries supported by her knowledge on the fuel safety functions from front to back-end.
All of this has been supported by her leadership in R&D projects carried out with national and international partners, consistently focused on solving industrial challenges and advancing practical, technically robust solutions.
This background equips her to provide the EURAD-2 EAB with independent, evidence based judgement, ensuring recommendations that are technically robust, risk informed, and feasible for implementation across the nuclear lifecycle.
She also represents ENUSA in the SNETP (Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform), the OECD/NEA SCIP V (Studsvik Cladding Integrity Program), the European Industrial Alliance on SMR, the Spanish National Platform for R&D in Radiological Protection (PEPRI), and the Spanish Nuclear Fission R&D Platform (CEIDEN), where she acts as Program Leader for the ATF Program.