31. Career Dialogue "Laura Urso"

Career Dialogue

Date: Feb 26, 2026
Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Laura Urso
Location: Zoom
Room: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Host: Career Center
Contact: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de

For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management.

After studying physics at the University of Padua, Italy, until 2005, Laura obtained her PhD in 2009 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, where she worked on modelling neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) stabilization experiments at ASDEX Upgrade.

Following her doctoral studies, she transitioned to applied research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Radiation Protection of the Helmholtz Research Center for Health and Environment, focusing on environmental modelling to assess the impact of planned or accidental releases of radionuclides to public and environment in support of regulatory decision-making.

In 2013, she joined the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz - BfS) as a Technical Officer, working across a broad range of activities including research and monitoring programmes for environmental and public radiation protection and the development of regulatory provisions.

Since April 2024, Laura works as Regulatory Standards Specialist at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), currently serving as Acting Head of the Radiation Protection Unit in the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security. She leads the development and implementation of IAEA Safety Standards, with particular emphasis on the protection of the public and the environment from all types of radiation sources.