Dr. Leslie Dewan is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Transatomic Power, a nuclear reactor design company developing safe and environmentally-friendly nuclear power plants. She received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT in 2013, with a research focus on computational nuclear materials. She also holds S.B. degrees from MIT in mechanical engineering and nuclear engineering. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked for a robotics company in Cambridge, MA, where she designed search-and-rescue robots and equipment for in-field identification of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Dr. Dewan is a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, an MIT Presidential Fellow, and was named a Forbes "30 Under 30" in Energy in December 2012.
MIT Technology Review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/pioneer/leslie-dewan/