Dr Buglova has over 30 years of professional experience in the area of nuclear safety, nuclear security and emergency preparedness and response.

She holds both a PhD and Dr of Science degree in medical sciences. She has published over 150 scientific papers and several books.

Dr Buglova gained her professional experience first at the national level in Belarus. Before joining the IAEA in 2002, Dr Buglova was working as the Head of the Laboratory of Radiation Safety and Risk Analysis at the Institute of Radiation Medicine of Belarus. She was also the Scientific Secretary of the National Commission of Radiation Protection of Belarus.

While working in Belarus she was directly involved in activities aimed at minimizing consequences of the Chernobyl NPP accident to the population of Belarus (e.g. field missions to the contaminated areas performing measurements of radioactivity in air, soil and foodstuff and dose reconstruction for the individuals; communication campaigns aimed at explaining protective actions and their background to the population; development and justification of criteria for protective actions in Belarus and in assessment of risk coefficients for radiation induced health effects among the Belarusian population after the Chernobyl accident). She was also directly dealing with the control of radioactive sources, including registry of radioactive sources, and was one of the 6 co-developers of the national regulatory norms, which addressed matters of nuclear security and represented a regulatory document at the state level.

Dr Buglova participated in numerous international projects which were aimed at learning from Belarusian experience after the Chernobyl accident.

Since 2002 she is working at the IAEA at different positions with progressively increasing responsibilities, dealing with various aspects of nuclear safety, nuclear security and emergency preparedness and response.

Dr Buglova has been the Head of the Incident and Emergency Centre during the Full Response Mode operations within the IAEA's response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011, leading the response operations on a 24.7 basis for 54 days. Throughout the years with the IAEA, she was personally dealing with, or managing at the executive level, response to various nuclear safety and nuclear security related events.

In recognition of her achievements in the IAEA, she received 2 Superior Achievements Awards, 3 Team Awards and 1 Individual Merit Award of the IAEA. She has also received international professional recognition awards of US Health Physics Society and Women in Nuclear organization.

As of 1 January 2021, Dr Elena Buglova is working as the Director of the Division of Nuclear Security of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Her background is analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry. Her research focuses on signature analysis in nuclear forensics. Over the last decade, she has developed a national nuclear forensics capacity by concentrating on four areas: radioactive crime scene management, nuclear forensics analysis, nuclear forensics library, and national network development. She is the chief investigator on two IAEA-coordinated research projects and has co-hosted various events.

Dr. Naoko INOUE is Director of Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation, Security and Human Resource Development (ISCN), Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Dr. Inoue has more than 30 years of experiences working in the field of radiation safety, nuclear non-proliferation technology development including nuclear material accountancy for Fukushima fuel debris and proliferation resistance evaluation methodology, nuclear security, capacity building, international technical joint study coordination. Prior to join ISCN/JAEA, she had served as Radionuclide Officer for CTBTO for six years in charge of quality assurance program for 16 worldwide CTBTO laboratories and radioactive noble gas measurement, etc.

Dr. Inoue has a Ph.D. on Safeguards Approach for Advanced Aqueous Reprocessing Enhancing Nuclear Proliferation Resistance from The University of Tokyo (Nuclear Engineering and Management), a MSc. and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Kyushu University, Japan.

Deputy Director of ISCN. Joined the former Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation in 1995 and engaged in Safeguards for reprocessing and MOX facilities, followed by work on Safeguards for uranium enrichment and advanced reprocessing facilities as well as physical protection. From 2000, served at the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, working on WMD disarmament negotiations. Later, managed Safeguards and nuclear security for all JAEA facilities, and worked at the Japan Safeguards Office, MEXT. From 2015, served as a Nuclear Safeguards Inspector at the IAEA. Since 2020 at ISCN.

Arief Sasongko Adhi is a researcher in Nuclear Security and Safeguards Research Group at BRIN's Nuclear Energy Research Organization. He started his career as an undergraduate student intern at BATAN (National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia). Later he joined as a research and development staff at BATAN's Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Research Group. His involvement with nuclear forensics began when he became a scientific staff for an IAEA coordinated research contract on the Identification of High Confidence Nuclear Forensic Signatures for UO 2 from a Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Process in 2013. He has a Master's degree in nuclear and quantum engineering from KAIST, South Korea; and he also has a graduate certificate in nuclear security science & analysis from University of Tennessee, USA. In 2014, he became a Riset-Pro Fellow in Nuclear Security at the Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia. He has been in the Nuclear Security and Safeguards Research Group at BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia) since 2021. Since 2023 until present, he works together with his colleagues in a research project (partially funded by IAEA) for Advancing the Development of Indonesian National Nuclear Forensics Library.

Peter Hiller is a site and waste characterisation specialist with thirty five years' experience both within and outside the nuclear industry. Peter provides technical leadership and guidance on site and waste sampling, characterisation and management projects across a range of nuclear sites in the UK, Europe and more recently, Japan. The first eleven years of his career were spent in a commercial non-nuclear site characterisation organisation working in a range of areas including geotechnical and contaminated land projects, waste management and licencing projects and remediation projects across the United Kingdom. The past twenty five years have been spent within the nuclear sector starting with British Nuclear Fuels Limited's environmental capability in 2000 and most recently, leading the National Nuclear Laboratory's Environmental Characterisation team.

Peter has undertaken and led a significant amount of site and waste characterisation and assessment work on many, civil and defence nuclear licensed sites across the UK and Europe. This understanding of the requirements of working on a nuclear site has been invaluable in successfully completing substantial packages of work. This work area has been extended by the development and delivery of a new program of waste characterisation support to the Japanese Atomic Energy Authority, focused on the characterisation and disposal optioneering associated with Fukushima Daiichi accident wastes which has been ongoing for the last seven years.

This characterisation expertise has led Peter to develop a second lead role in the UKNNL's Security and Safeguards area where he leads the UKNNL's support of the UK Nuclear Forensic Library (UKNFL); the UK's radiological and nuclear provenance capability (formed jointly with AWE Aldermaston). This construct delivers provenance capability to support counter terrorism policing to respond in cases where radiological materials are found outside of regulatory control. This has led to direct engagement with the UK Home Office, Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero and the Ministry of Defence, transferring characterisation experience into this new arena and helping to shape the civil nuclear estates contribution to this operational capability.

With a strong technical background, a proven track record for delivery and innovation and a strong background in safety, he has been able to successfully lead the UKNNL Characterisation and Security and Non Proliferation Teams to deliver a wide range of diverse project. Peter is now also heavily focused on sharing his knowledge with early and mid-career colleagues, developing pan-NNL capability in both Characterisation and Nuclear Forensics Provenance as both areas will be key underpinning requirement for the nuclear industry going forward.

Dr. Yoshiki KIMURA is Assistant Professor of Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy, Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo, formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology). Dr. Kimura has more than 10 years of experiences working in the field of nuclear security, particularly in nuclear forensics and security risk analysis. Prior to join Science Tokyo, he had served as Assistant Principal Researcher for ISCN-JAEA, mainly in charge of nuclear forensics technology development, US-JP Nuclear Security Working Group Goal9 project and contribution to the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification.

Dr. Kimura has a Ph.D. and a M.Eng. in nuclear engineering, and bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Planning Committee Member, Institute of Nuclear Material Management Japan (INMMJ) (2021~)

Subcommittee and Division Management Committee Member, Atomic Energy Society of Japan (2013~)

Management Committee Member, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards and Nuclear Security Network, Atomic Energy Society of Japan (2013~)

2023–Present: Chubu University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering

Currently, I am applying the broad knowledge I have acquired in the field of electrical and electronic engineering to conduct multiphysics analysis using the physics simulation software COMSOL.

It is a great honor for me to have the opportunity to speak at this international forum. Based on the discussions held in the student session, I feel a deep resonance with the forum's theme, “Connecting Knowledge and Action”, which directly reflects the question of how we, as students, can apply our learning to society.

In the student session, we have engaged in discussions on specialized issues such as nuclear forensics and international cooperation, considering how we, as the next generation of professionals, should prepare for the future. I sincerely hope to share with you our proposals on how to transform knowledge into concrete action from the perspective of students.

March 1997:

Completed Master's Program, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo

March 1995:

Graduated from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo

April 2025:

Executive Director, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

April 2024:

Director, Policy Division, R&D Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

August 2022:

Director, Space Development and Utilization Division, R&D Bureau, MEXT

July 2021:

Director, International Strategy Planning, S&T Policy Bureau, MEXT

July 2019:

Counsellor, Strategy and Policy Planning, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), Cabinet Secretariat

July 2017:

Director, International S&T Affairs Division, S&T Policy Bureau, MEXT

July 2015:

Director for Quantum Science and Technology, MEXT

July 2013:

Director for Budget Planning and Coordination, Budget and Accounts Division, Minister’s Secretariat, MEXT

July 2011:

Director for Basic Research Promotion, MEXT

June 2007:

First Secretary and Nuclear Energy Attache, Embassy of Japan U.S.A.

April 1997:

Joined Atomic Energy Bureau, Science and Technology Agency (former agency of MEXT)