Mike Bluck obtained his BSc(Hons) in Mathematics (mathematical physics) from the University of Kent. At Imperial College London, Mike completed a PhD Thesis: 'Integral equation methods for transient wave propagation' with applications to acoustic scattering, RCS computation and antenna design before becoming involved in nuclear engineering. He is a Reader in Nuclear Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College. He is the Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College. He is also the Director of the Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre and the deputy Director of the ICO (Imperial, Cambridge, Open University) Nuclear Energy Doctoral Training Centre. His interests cover nuclear thermal hydraulics, neutronics and associated computational methods. He is an investigator on current grants totalling over £6M in value, including Computational Modelling for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants, collaborations with India (BARC) on thermal hydraulics, development of advanced radiation transport schemes (Rolls-Royce) and applications of CFD to nuclear (Rolls-Royce). He is Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science.