Research Interests

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the Division of Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. My research focuses on understanding and addressing the risks that technologies can generate for national and international security, such as nuclear technologies, specifically in the Asia Pacific region and in the context of the U.S-China rivalry. With a background in physics engineering, I develop technological solutions to help address policy issues as much as I study policy approaches to mitigate technological risks. As the project lead for the nuclear reactor physics code ONIX, I also develop open-source software to promote the use of open and transparent scientific tools in academic research and education.

Before joining HKUST, I was a fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard’s Belfer Center from 2021 to 2022 and a nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) from 2019 to 2021. I was also part of the Science and Global Security research team at Princeton University from 2014 to 2019. I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Princeton University, an M.Sc. in Nuclear Science and Technology from Tsinghua University Beijing, and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.Sc. and B.Sc.Eng.) from Ecole Centrale de Marseille.

HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., Polleri, M., "Four unanswered questions about the intersection of war and nuclear power," Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, 19 April 2022
• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., Fichtlscherer, C., von Hippel, F. N. (2021), "Onsite Verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at Very Low Yield," INMM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting
• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., Kütt, M. (2021), "Verifying North Korea's Plutonium Production with Nuclear Archaeology," Science & Global Security, Vol 29, Issue 3:145 - 166
• Glaser, A., de Troullioud de Lanversin, J. (2021), "Plutonium and Tritium Production in Israel's Dimona Reactor,
  1964 - 2020," Science & Global Security, Vol 29, Issue 2:26 - 43
• Buono, S., Hecla, J., Kobezskii, V., Mummah, K., de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., "It's Time to Reignite U.S.-Russian
  Cooperation in Space. Here are Five Ideas," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 21 July 2021
• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., Kütt, M., Glaser, A. (2020), "ONIX: An Open-source Depletion Code," Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol 151
• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., "US-China Rivalry: When Great Power Competition Endangers Global Science," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientsits, 16 October 2020
• de Troullioud de Lanversin, J., Göttsche, M., Glaser, A. (2018), "Nuclear Archaeology to Distinguish Plutonium and Tritium Production Modes in Heavy Water Reactors," Science & Global Security, Vol 26, Issue 2:70 - 90