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Name
Egidijus Urbonavicius
Title
Dr.
Bio
Egidijus Urbonavičius graduated Vytautas Magnus University as Master of Science in Physics in 1998. In 1995 during bachelor studies in university he started professional career at Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) in Ignalina Safety Analysis Group, which later became Laboratory of Nuclear Installations Safety. In 1998 he started PhD studies at LEI and in 2003 he successfully defended Doctor theses in the field of thermal engineering and continued professional career at LEI. At LEI he grew from assistant in laboratory to chief researcher.
The main topics of interest in science are processes in containments on nuclear power plants in case of severe accidents covering entire spectrum from thermal-hydraulics to transport of the radioactive fission products and definition of source term to environment. In 2006 he also became involved in research linked with the fusion facilities and was a leader of first fusion project liked with safety assessment of ITER facility in the frames of EURATOM in Framework Program (FP-6). He was involved in a number of national and international projects linked with safety assessment of nuclear power plants and fusion facilities. The major projects were SARNET and SARNET-2, European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA), EUROfusion, CESAM, ARCADIA, FASTNET, BRILLIANT. Now he is leading project HARMONISE implemented in the frames of Horizon-Europe programme.
He is an author of more than 50 scientific publications, including 1 monograph on Severe accident management for Ignalina NPP.