EVA URIBE

Eva Uribe is currently a third year graduate student in Professor Heino Nitsche’s Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the development of organically-modified silica for the selective extraction of actinides and lanthanides, and the application of these solid phase extraction materials to fuel cycle actinide separations. Eva graduated from Yale University in 2011 with a double major in Chemistry and Political Science. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, she worked as a Next Generation Safeguards Initiative intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Nonproliferation Division, where she worked with Dr. Brian Boyer’s team to investigate the implementation of the Additional Protocol in the Nuclear Weapons States party to the Nonproliferation Treaty. In the summer of 2010 she attended the American Chemical Society Nuclear Chemistry Summer School at San Jose State University. Her work with the NPWG centers on the intersection of nuclear policy and nuclear reprocessing, especially in the commercial thorium fuel cycle currently being developed in India, and how the US-India Nuclear Deal challenges IAEA safeguards and the international nonproliferation regime.

Contact: eva.uribe@berkeley.edu