Zero Carbon Energy Transition in Europe and Carbon Neutrality in China

 Dr. Zhang is the foreign academician candidate of the Russian National Academy of Engineering. he graduated from the French National Center for Scientific Research with a doctorate in artificial intelligence and human factors engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in the R&D and engineering of artificial intelligence and human factors engineering in advanced energy industry. As high executive of Areva, a Fortune Global 500 company, he is mainly responsible for human factor engineering, artificial intelligence and instrument control system research and development, engineering design and other work of the new European reactor EPR2 and the fourth generation nuclear reactors. He was the project director of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, and the project director of European FP5 program, the main members include Siemens, Alstom, bombardier, the French national railway company, RATP, alcatel. Dr. Zhang led the establishment of the Human Factor Engineering Safety Assessment System in the field of nuclear energy in China, which won the second prize of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The system established by Dr. Zhang is still in use today. He was the first to apply artificial intelligence in a comprehensive and systematic way to the expert system of nuclear power plants.