Maria Eduarda Montezzo Coelho

Affiliation

Idaho National Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Maria Eduarda Montezzo is a model-based systems engineering scientist at Idaho National Laboratory. Her research is focused on developing models and simulations to support model-based systems engineering efforts across INL's Hydrogen Production Initiative. She has participated in a task force to build a research roadmap for control methods use of digital twins in advanced nuclear reactors. She established a strategic planning and acquisition model for INL's Energy Systems Laboratory II, an integrated energy system project critical to the lab's net-zero goal. She holds a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Maryland, where she also earned her master's and bachelor's degrees. She has extensive teaching experience