Gilles Rodriguez is an expert engineer at the CEA/CADARACHE. He is project manager in Generation 4 Collaborations and international affairs. He graduated from the University of Lyon, France in 1990 (in Chemical Engineering) and Master of Science in Process engineering (Toulouse 1991). His areas of expertise are nuclear reactor technology, liquid metal processes, and process engineering. He joined the CEA/CADARACHE research center in 1991 in support of Phénix and SUPERPHENIX operations and in support of RAPSODIE decommissioning. He moved in 2004 in Japan on the Monju reactor as CEA representative. From 2005 to 2008 he worked on coupling Gen IV Reactor with Hydrogen Production.