Clean Energy Spotlight: Gabrielle Finan

As part of #WomensHistoryMonth, this week's clean energy spotlight is a thermal hydraulics engineer who is helping make expensive, polluting fossil fuels history. 

Meet Gabrielle Finan of Framatome, an international leader in nuclear energy. There, she performs safety analysis for pressurized water reactors. Gabrielle began her career at Framatome as a mechanical engineering intern. Gabrielle obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering.

As the daughter of an engineer, Gabrielle maintains that her job “is not just something that pays the bills, but it's part of who [she is]... giv[ing] [her] a great sense of pride to be a part of this industry.” 

“I've wanted to work in clean energy (specifically nuclear) since high school. Before that, I was interested in physics and knew I wanted to work in the field,” she told CE4AEF’s Faces of Clean Energy program.

For Gabrielle, continuing to work in the clean energy sector is how she plans to serve as a key player in helping to end our dependence on fossil fuels. “Future generations won't have to grow up with the same anxieties that my generation has. I'm proud that we are doing something to improve our planet, not deplete and pollute it.”

Congratulations, Gabrielle, and thank you for pioneering the next generation of clean energy workers.