Dr Florence-Nathalie Sentuc new Technical and Scientific Director of GRS
Dr Sentuc completed her doctorate at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne in 2004. Dr Sentuc has worked for GRS in various capacities since 2005: initially as scientific expert in the Radiation Protection Department, from 2010 to 2018 as Chief Expert in the field of Radiological Consequence Analyses and Transport, and since 2018 as head of the Decommissioning and Storage Department. She is also one of two so-called ‘INES Officers’ at GRS who review the categorisation of events according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment. Dr Sentuc has been a member of the ‘Waste Conditioning, Transport and Interim Storage’ committee of the Nuclear Waste Management Commission (ESK) since 2019 and was appointed to the ESK's main committee at the beginning of 2024.
“GRS is in a phase of change. The nuclear phase-out in Germany on the one hand and technological developments in neighbouring countries on the other present us with exciting challenges - especially when it comes to maintaining the expertise that I am convinced we still need in Germany in the long run. I look forward to shaping this change together with our highly motivated colleagues so that GRS can continue to be a reliable and competent partner for the German federal government and the public in the years and decades to come,” says Dr Florence-Nathalie Sentuc.
Dr Jan-Niclas Gesenhues, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GRS says: “In Dr Florence-Nathalie Sentuc, we have been able to recruit a proven expert as the new Technical and Scientific Director of GRS, who has many years of experience in the field of nuclear safety. I wish her - also on behalf of the entire Supervisory Board - all the best for her new tasks and look forward to working with her.”
Dr Sentuc is 50 years old and is married with two children.
About GRS
GRS is a non-profit technical and scientific research and expert organisation. Its work focuses on nuclear safety and waste management and on radiation protection. It is part of the network of federal authorities that support the Radiological Situation Centre of the Federation, which is based at the Federal Environment Ministry, in the event of a radiological or nuclear emergency. The shareholders of GRS are the Federal Republic of Germany (46%), the Länder of North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria (4% each) and the Technische Überwachungs-Vereine (together 46%). At its company locations in Cologne, Berlin, Braunschweig and Garching, GRS has around 370 staff, among them more than 300 experts from various scientific disciplines.
GRS is entirely contract-financed. GRS’s main customers/sponsors in Germany are the Federal Environment Ministry, the Federal Education and research Ministry, the Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) and the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management. GRS’s main international customer is the European Commission.