Saleem Drera, Ph.D. is the Chief Executive Officer of RadTran LLC. He founded the company in 2012 and is responsible for leading the development and execution of the companies goals.
Dr. Drera has a broad background in the development of nuclear technology which includes testing, scaling, commercialization and licensing. His main technological expertise has been with the development of materials to withstand radiation and chemical processing of radioactive materials. Additionally, Dr. Drera has consulted for and been a member of a host of successful startup companies within the green energy and advanced materials sector. He was the Vice President of Research and Development for Thor Energy and the Deputy CTO for The Cameron Group Inc.
Dr. Saleem Drera earned two B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, a M.S. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines in Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Dr. Drera's work has been published in dozens of peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Nuclear Materials, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Progress in Nuclear Energy and many conference proceedings. Additionally, Dr. Drera holds patents for the processing and separation of radioactive isotopes.