Meet the team.
Enrique Vélez-López
Principal
Enrique is a multi-disciplinary engineer with over a decade of experience in advanced reactor conceptualization. He trained and worked as a structural mechanical engineer for many years in Europe. In his time in the nuclear industry, he has conducted post-Fukushima design retrofits for operating nuclear plants, made design modifications because of predicted maintenance, and designed components for advanced reactors.
While leading multi-disciplinary teams at system interfaces he identified that collaboration and communication between specialists are significant hurdles for advanced reactor development. To build the expertise to foster collaboration and communication, he went to MIT for masters’ degrees in nuclear and civil engineering.
W. Robb Stewart
Principal
Robb Stewart is an engineer with a problem-solution mindset and a mission to unlock our abundant clean energy future.
He spent 4+ years at GE's research center and built a reputation for identifying gaps that prevented adoption of new technologies and building bridges across them. But he couldn’t see a path to the lifetime climate impact that he wanted.
So he left. And went to MIT to find the barriers holding back our largest source of zero-emission power: nuclear energy. He spent 4 years, and a PhD studying the cost and construction risk of advanced nuclear, and this work culminated in co-founding Boston Atomics.