Alix de Pannemaecker, PhD, PE, is a Mechanical Codes and Methods Engineer at TerraPower, with prior experience as a Senior Engineer at Exponent and as a Reliability Engineer and Mechanical Test Engineer at Genesis Robotics. Alix has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Research Council Canada, focusing on Advanced Methodology for Grid-to-Rod Fretting Modeling. Additionally, Alix completed a software engineering bootcamp at Hack Reactor in 2023, enhancing skills in computer software engineering. Alix holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole centrale de Lyon, awarded in 2015.