Leonel Lagos Email and Phone Number

Dr. Leonel E. Lagos, is the Director of Research at Florida International University’s Applied Research Center (FIU-ARC), Associate Professor at FIU's Moss Department of Contruction Management and Principal Investigator of a multi-year, multi-million dollars Cooperative Agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and FIU in support of DOE’s environmental restoration program. Dr. Lagos is also the Principal Investigator for the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity technology development program at FIU. Dr. Lagos is founder and Director of the DOE-FIU Science and Technology Workforce Development Program (http://fellows.fiu.edu )and Department of Defense Cyber Fellows Program. As director to these prestigious signature workforce development programs, Dr. Lagos trains and mentors FIU science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) minority students and provides them with “hands-on” applied research, internships, professional development, and employment opportunities. During his tenure at FIU-ARC, Dr. Lagos has developed environmental technologies for the treatment of radiological contaminated surfaces and disposal of nuclear waste. His research has resulted in U.S. and European patents of a Mobile Integrated Piping Decontamination and Characterization System. He has developed and implemented innovative methods for the environmental cleanup of DOE radiological contaminated facilities and conducted over 200 technology demonstrations, evaluations, and deployments at ARC Large Scale Testing Facility, DOE sites, and commercial nuclear facilities. Dr. Lagos has been instrumental in developing the Knowledge Management Information Tool (KM-IT) for capturing, preservation, and dissemination of deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) technologies, lessons learned, best practices, and D&D knowledge in general. During his career, Dr. Lagos has developed and fostered strong working relationships with international agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - Austria, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)/Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - France, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) - South Korea, the Institute or Energy Technology (IFE) - Norway, and many other international agencies and educational institutions. Dr. Lagos is also the current Chair of the American Nuclear Society's Robotics and Remote Systems Division (RRSD) and an active member of the Waste Management Symposia's Program Advisory Committee (PAC).