Nicolas Zweibaum

Dr. Nicolas Zweibaum is the Director of Salt Systems Design at Kairos Power. In this role, Dr. Zweibaum is responsible for the design, analysis, testing, and hardware delivery for heat transport systems, thermal management systems, and process equipment. He is the Responsible Director for KP-FHR systems outside of the reactor unit as well as their development through both non-nuclear and nuclear prototypes.

Dr. Zweibaum has over a decade of experience working with FHR technology. Prior to his current role, Dr. Zweibaum was the Senior Manager of Engineering Testing at Kairos Power, where he led a team of test engineers and technicians focused on thermal-fluids experiments in support of design, technology development, and code validation for the KP-FHR. Dr. Zweibaum was also responsible for overseeing the development of Kairos Power’s first test facility, the Rapid Analysis, Prototyping, and Iterative Design Laboratory (R-Lab) in Alameda, California. Before joining Kairos Power, he worked alongside co-founders Mike Laufer and Per Peterson at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed, built, and operated the first integral effects test facility in support of FHR technology.

Dr. Zweibaum graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in France. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.