Mauricio Tano
Principal Investigator & R&D Scientist
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMauricio Tano is a Principal Investigator and R&D Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory with a PhD in Nuclear Engineering and about four years of focused experience translating multiphysics research into practical simulation and experimental validation. He blends computational fluid dynamics, phase-change modeling, and thermal-hydraulics with machine learning to optimize nuclear and high-temperature molten-salt systems, work reflected in substantive contributions to the widely used MOOSE multiphysics framework. Previously a visiting professor and international trainee, he pairs academic rigor with industry-facing innovation and has applied AI techniques to nuclear system optimization and financial risk analysis. Notably, he moves between deep numerical methods and applied data science, enabling experiments, codebases, and models to inform one another for faster, validated engineering outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor in Business Administration (DBA), Financial Mathematics, Doctor in Business Administration (DBA), Financial Mathematics at Grenoble Ecole de ManagementDoctor in Business Administration, International Business, Doctor in Business Administration, International Business at Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Engineering at Institut polytechnique de GrenobleNuclear Engineer, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Energy at Instituto Balseiro
Spanish, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
na10
finite-element-analysis10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
equation10
nav10
multiphysics10
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:326 reviews, 21 PRs, 516 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mauricio contributed significantly to the development of a multiphysics simulation environment, as evidenced by their commits focused on implementing and refining solidification models. Their work involved adding new tests, refining existing ones, and integrating models related to phase change phenomena within the Navier-Stokes framework, suggesting a focus on the underlying physics and numerical methods. The user demonstrated a good understanding of computational fluid dynamics and related physics by contributing to both code changes and examples.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
tanoret/moose
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Contributions:1 PR, 350 pushes, 47 branches in 3 years 4 months
pythonmultiphysicssimulationsimulation-environmentobject-oriented
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