Michael L. Corradini is Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. He was chosen as a NSF Presidential Young Investigator in Nuclear Reactor Safety in 1984.  He was a consultant for the USNRC as well as many DOE National Laboratories, the AECL and the CEC in severe accidents, containment systems, and multiphase flow.  He was Vice-Chairman of the 1985 NRC Steam Explosion Review Group and other NRC safety review panels.  He was elected a 1990 Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.  In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was also served as a presidential appointee in 2002 and 2003 as the chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.  From 2004-2008, he served as a board member of the INPO National Accreditation Board for Nuclear Training. In 2006, he was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and appointed to the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. Most recently, he was appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the civilian French Atomic Energy Agency, CEA. He was elected as the Vice-President and President of the American Nuclear Society in 2011-2012. He has published widely in areas related to vapor explosion phenomena, jet spray dynamics, and transport phenomena in multiphase systems.