Zoltán Hózer

Centre for Energy Research Fuel and Reactor Materials Department H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege M. street. 29-33., Hungary phone: +36 1 392 2586 e-mail: hozer.zoltan@ek-cer.hu

Education   
 - 1984 MSc nuclear engineer,  Moscow Power Engineering Institute (МЭИ)   
 - 1988 Dr. Univ., Budapest Technical University, (two-phase flow modelling)   
 - 2003 PhD, Budapest Unviversity of Technology and Economics, (simulation of leaking fuel rods)   
 - 2016 Doctor of Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 - 2021 Dr. Habil, Physical Sciences, Budapest Unviversity of Technology and Economics    

Publications    
    CODEX reports    
    OECD reports    
    MTMT database    
    SCOPUS   
    Google Tudós    
    ORCID    
    Researchgate    
    Web of Science 

OECD projects and working groups 
 - 1996-2000 OECD RASPLAV Project
 - 2001-2006 OECD MASCA Project
 - 1996- OECD Halden Reactor Project
 - 1997-2000 OECD CSNI Working Groups on Degraded Core Cooling
 - 2002-2006 OECD CSNI Special Expert Group on Fuel Safety Margins
 - 2007- OECD CSNI Working Group on Fuel Safety (chair 2017-)
 - 2005-2008 OECD NSCEG Expert Group on R&D needs 
 - 2005-2007 OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project (co-ordinator) 
 - 2009-2013 OECD Sandia Fuel Project
 - 2014-2018 OECD SCIP III Project
 - 2017- GIF GFR Fuel & Core Materials Project (chair 2017-)
 - 2020-2022 OECD FIDES Framework for Irradiation Experiments 
 - 2022- OECD FIDES-II Framework for Irradiation Experiments


EU projects and expert group 
 - 2000-2003 EU COLOSS Project
 - 2000-2003 EU ENTHALPY Project
 - 2005-2008 EU SARNET Project
 - 2005-2008 EU COVERS project
 - 2005-2012 EU Contact Expert Group on Severe Accident Management
 - 2009-2012 EU SARNET2 Project
 - 2012-2014 EU First-Nuclides Project
 - 2013-2017 EU ESNII Plus Project
 - 2014-2018 EU SAFEST Project
 - 2019-2023 EU R2CA Project
 - 2020-2024 EU PuMMA Project
 - 2020-2024 EU SafeG Project

Research area
 - fuel behaviour under normal operation 
 - fuel behaviour during incidents and accidents 
 - spent fuel storage, handling, final disposal
 - fuel of Generation IV. reactors

Teaching
 - starting from 2010 "safety analyses of nuclear power plants" for MSc students at the Budapest Unviversity of Technology and Economics
 - supervising PhD students  
 - 2001 IAEA Workshop on COBRA-SFS Code for VVER Spent Fuel Storage (IAEA), Prague, 
 - 2006 Strengthening safety and reliability of nuclear fuel and materials in NPPs, (IAEA), Argonne National Laboratory 
 - 2014 Training workshop on WWER  fuel integrity monitoring for safe operation of BNPP-1 (IAEA), Tehran
 - 2020 Training Course on Fuel Safety Criteria and Limits (IAEA), on-line 
 - 2020 Training Workshop on Zr Alloy Cladding Tests (IAEA), on-line 

1991- member of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (2013-2015 president)
2022- member of the High Scientific Council of the European Nuclear Society