Benoit Forget

Benoit Forget is the KEPCO Professor and department head of nuclear science and engineering at MIT. Since joining the faculty in 2008, he has led the Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG), known for developing the open-source codes OpenMC and OpenMOC — tools advancing high-fidelity reactor simulations on cutting-edge computing platforms. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in reactor physics, engineering, and radiation transport, and regularly co-organizes industry-focused short courses on reactor safety. Before MIT, he worked at Idaho National Laboratory on reactor methods development and fuel cycle analysis. Forget earned his PhD in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. A fellow of the American Nuclear Society, he chaired its Reactor Physics Division in 2011–2012 and received the ANS John Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award in 2013.