PNNL

Cristina Siserman-Gray is a legal and regulatory specialist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with more than 10 years of experience as an international lawyer specialized in arms control and nonproliferation. As part of the Legal Frameworks Team at PNNL, she contributes to legal and regulatory aspects on nuclear security and safeguards, as well as on the nonproliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, by supporting projects for the Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of State (DOS). She focuses on capacity building programs for DOE/National Nuclear Security Administration, including International Nuclear Security, Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence, and International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program. She has also led projects as a principal investigator under the Advanced Reactors International Safeguards Engagement program and Safeguards Concepts and Approaches.

Prior to PNNL, she worked in various legal and policy positions for international organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. In these capacities, she provided legal technical assistance related to implementation and verification of international treaties and agreements and contributed to the delivery of international trainings for diplomats, national regulators, military and law enforcement authorities. Parallel to her work in international organizations, she also has experience in legal academia as a PhD candidate and researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Austria. Her doctoral work focuses on legal aspects of illicit nuclear trafficking and transnational criminal law, and she has developed a course in international nuclear law.

• Nonproliferation of WMD and arms control
• Legislative and regulatory development
• Nuclear law
• Legal implications of new and emerging technologies
• Capacity building

• LLM in law, University of Washington, USA, 2021
• MS in cognitive science, University of Vienna, Austria, 2018
• JD in law, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2011
• BA in applied modern languages (translation and interpretation), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2008

Siserman-Gray, C., et. al., Legal and Regulatory Aspects Related to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for Safeguards Implementation, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Portland, July 2024.

Siserman-Gray, C., et al., IAEA Milestones Approach and its Applicability to the Deployment of Transportable Nuclear Power Plants, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Portland, July 2024.

Siserman-Gray, C., Burniske, J., Gender Mainstreaming in Nuclear Security: Strategies for Incorporating Gender Equality by Design in the IAEA Milestones Approach, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Portland, July 2024.

Siserman-Gray, C., Landine, G., Cybersecurity for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs): Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Vienna, May 2023.

Siserman-Gray, C., Burniske, J., et al., Regulatory Challenges Related to the Use of Artificial Intelligence for IAEA Safeguards Verification, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Vienna, May 2023.

Siserman-Gray, C., et al., Incorporating Safeguards-by-Design into the Procurement Process, International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium on International Safeguards: Reflecting on the Past and Anticipating the Future, Vienna, November 2022. 

Man, M., Porter, M., Siserman-Gray, C., et al., Building a Template for NWS-NNWS-IAEA SMR Supply Safeguards Arrangements, IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards: Reflecting on the Past and Anticipating the Future, Vienna, November 2022.

Siserman-Gray, C., Comparative Analysis on the National Approaches for the Legal Implementation and Criminalization of the Offences under the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) and its Amendment, International Conference on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, November 2017.

Nasuti, N., Reynolds, J., Siserman, C., Forging the future of NATO's Partnerships In "What NATO for What Threats, Warsaw and Beyond," Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2015, p. 97-112.

Siserman, C., Fundamental human rights within the EU framework: the protection of personal data seen through the lenses of 2012 reform proposal, Hamangiu Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013, p. 197-221.

Siserman, C., Circumstances precluding individual criminal responsibility self-defense and duress in the practice of International Criminal Court, Hamangiu Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013, p. 245-258.

Siserman, C., A global perspective on the protection of privacy and correlated human rights in countering the use of Internet for terrorist purposes, Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, Issue 2, 2013, p. 401-422.