Dr. Miles Greiner was appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Joseph Biden on September 16, 2024.
Dr. Greiner is a Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and past chair of the UNR Mechanical Engineering Department. Since 1993, he has directed the UNR Nuclear Packaging Program, which conducts externally funded research to develop and experimentally validate computational methods to predict the thermal performance of nuclear packaging under normal and severe fire accident conditions. This includes performing large-scale experiments and computational studies of heat transfer to massive objects engulfed in pool fires, developing methods to predict transport during used nuclear fuel package vacuum drying, and developing wireless methods to monitor nuclear packaging internal conditions. Since 2016, Dr. Greiner has directed a UNR educational program which awards graduate certificates in Nuclear Packaging and in Transportation Security and Safeguards. He has published over 100 journal articles and conference papers on nuclear packaging topics. Dr. Greiner earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.