Zakaria Ahmed

Head of inspection and Enforcement Department

ENRRA Head of Inspection and Enforcement Department. Zakaria assumed office on November 1st, 2020.He has a BSc in physics and MSc in nuclear physics. Zakaria has Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Faculty of Science- AL- Azhar University. Zakaria served as an Assistant Professor of nuclear physics in 2020. From 2014 at ENRRA: Supervisor of inspection work, developing future plans for inspection work as well as setting timelines for them in accordance with work requirements, distributing the inspections to the inspection team according to the experience of the team members or the nature of the materials and also determine the devices and equipment to be used in the mission in order to obtain the required information. From 2012 at ENRRA: senior inspector, responsible for the inspection file, provides technical support to stakeholders and conducts required measurements and analysis during inspection to obtain the required information, detector experience (operation, maintenance, modeling and field measurements) for gamma spectroscopy (HPGe, NaI and CdZnTe) and neutron detection (AWCC), radiation protection “dose assessment, shielding calculations…..etc. Started career in the fields of nuclear safeguards and nuclear security in 2006, joined the Egyptian state system of accounting and control of nuclear materials, where served as safeguards inspector between 2006 and 2012 at EAEA.