Simon Delavalle

Affiliation

Veolia Nuclear Solutions

Biography

With an engineer diploma from one of France's engineering school of higher education, Simon Delavalle started his career with a short spell in the automation industry before moving to England to work in surgical robotics to develop solutions for brain surgery and keyhole operations. He then moved to Oxford Technologies, now Veolia Nuclear Solutions UK, to design remote handling solutions where he lead teams to deliver robotics solutions to ITER, Dounreay, Sellafield and Fukushima. Simon Delavalle is now the CTO of Veolia Nuclear Solutions, overseeing the technical aspect for challenging remote handling operations and the development of the required future technologies.