Andew Pastrello

Andrew Pastrello is a nuclear engineer and a recipient of the FutureNow Scholarship. Along with his research partner Robert Mardus-Hall, he is developing nuclear power-based solutions for space missions to the Moon and Mars. They have created a small business called Ouranos, which aims to create power to promote space exploration 1. Andrew Pastrello is also developing a performance portable Monte Carlo neutron transport code for modern computer architectures including CPU, GPU, and FPGA, to improve the performance of reactors like OPAL 2.