Ferry Roelofs is Account Manager for Research at NRG PALLAS in the Netherlands. He has a background In thermal hydraulics simulations with a focus on advanced reactor applications and has been involved in various roles in numerous European collaborative projects sponsored by the Euratom program of the European Commission. He graduated from the Technical University Eindhoven (1996) in mechanical engineering and has been working at NRG PALLAS and its predecessors since 1997. Ferry is currently Governing Board member of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP), one of the initiators of the European Thermal Hydraulics Community (ETHC) under the umbrella of SNETP, and secretary of the Thermal Hydraulics Division (THD) under the American Nuclear Society (ANS).