The IARS team

Constantin Min is a technical adviser and metallurgical engineer at RoPower Nuclear, the project company for SMR development, with a multidisciplinary background in materials science, metallurgy and electrical engineering. He has experience in coordinating technical activities, welding, non-destructive examination, quality control and the application of ASME standards. At IARS he contributes technical expertise to risk analysis, preparedness and projects in the nuclear field.

She has 25 years of experience in corporate communication, in organisations and projects with high public exposure, in fields such as energy, downstream, wood processing, mining, real estate and health insurance. She was Director of Communication, Sustainability and Investor Relations at Nuclearelectrica and Head of Public Relations at RoPower Nuclear, the project company for the SMR development at Doicești. In 2025 she was directly involved in the IAEA ConvEx-3 international exercise, contributing to the evaluation criteria for public communication. She is currently the founder of Dare to Become Smart and a strategic adviser on reputation, trust and resilience. She is also Romania Country Chapter Lead of the European Association of Communication Directors.

Costin Urlățeanu is a violinist with almost three decades of artistic experience in orchestras and ensembles in Romania and abroad. He has performed with the Sibiu State Philharmonic, the “Muntenia” Philharmonic in Târgoviște and the Philharmonie der Nationen, and between 2022 and 2023 he was second violin section leader at the Sibiu State Philharmonic. At IARS he contributes to the cultural dimension of the institute, through his experience in the artistic world and in international collaboration.

Petre Min combines more than two decades of experience in the nuclear sector with a focus on complex risk analysis, crisis preparedness and organizational resilience. His perspective starts with a question fundamental to any organization: how well can it maintain its critical functions when technical systems, people and coordination mechanisms come under pressure simultaneously?

Ruxandra Săpoi is an engineer with ten years of experience in individual dosimetry and radiation protection. She holds a PhD in Energy Engineering, with a doctoral thesis entitled “Radiological Characterisation of Radioactive Waste”. During her doctoral studies, she completed numerous training placements involving environmental sample analysis and activity determination using alpha, beta and gamma spectrometry.

Dan Șerbănescu is a nuclear safety and risk specialist at Nuclearelectrica SA and Chief Operating Officer at RoPower SA. His background is nuclear physics and nuclear engineering, with PhD on nuclear engineering. He had activities in national and international projects related to risk, safety and emergency planning for large and small reactors for almost five decades. He has also experience in security of energy supply and in almost all nuclear fields (construction, designing, licensing, decommissioning, fabrication) at various executive and managerial positions, of which half in Romania, connected with CANDU and recently NUSCALE and half abroad, as PRA project manager of PBMR Ltd in South Africa and as European Commission nuclear staff member in JRC and DG ENER. He is scientific secretary of the Division of Logic and Models of the Romanian Academy and member EREDA. He has academic experience and is author/coauthor of more than 50 papers and of several books on safety, risk and models in complex energy systems, including nuclear.

CRISTIAN VIZITIU is a researcher and academic with extensive experience in leading interdisciplinary research and development (R&D) initiatives in space applications, as well as defining and advancing strategic research directions focused on space technologies and their terrestrial applications. He currently serves as Head of the Space Applications for Human Health and Safety Research Collective at the Institute of Space Science (ISS–INFLPR), Romania, and as Associate Professor in Computer Science and Robotics at Transilvania University of Brașov, specializing in Systems Engineering-related disciplines. He also holds an annual Visiting Professor appointment at a University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria, contributing to international teaching and academic collaboration.