Benoit Forget

Benoit Forget is the Korea Electric Power Professor of Nuclear Engineering and the Department Head of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. He joined MIT in 2008 and leads the MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG), which focuses on advancing computational methods for reactor simulation. His research spans Monte Carlo and deterministic transport methods, multiphysics coupling, and uncertainty quantification. He co-developed OpenMC and OpenMOC, open-source tools for reactor analysis. Forget holds a PhD from Georgia Tech and has received awards including the 2013 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award. He teaches courses such as 22.05 Neutron Science and Reactor Physics, and actively contributes to MIT’s computational science initiatives.

Educations: PhD in Nuclear Engineering (Georgia Tech, 2006), MS and BS in Energy Engineering (École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2003).

Research Interests: Computational reactor physics, radiative transport, high-performance computing, Monte Carlo and deterministic methods, multiphysics coupling, nuclear data uncertainty.

Labs/Teams: MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG), Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL).