Matthys Blom
Chief Engineer and Architect for Safety I&C Systems
Framatome
Matthys started his career 25 years ago as a calibration laboratory Technician at Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant in South Africa, for a total of 10 years, after completing his studies in Process Instrumentation & Control at the Vaal Triangle University of Technology. His plant experience there included several system authorizations on reactor protection- and analog control systems, process instrumentation and several nuclear instrumentation systems. After successfully completing the dual unit control rod drive control system replacement (2009) as onsite responsible engineer, Matthys moved to Areva GmbH (today Framatome) in the EPR electrical design department.
Matthys gained international design experience on EPR new builds, as well as several modernization projects, of various reactor types. Matthys performed the duties of I&C Architecture Interface manager for the Olkiluoto 3 NPP in Finland, where he gained licensing experience working with the Customer and Finnish safety authority on the engineering of the overall I&C Architecture of the plant. Thereafter, Matthys was responsible as development project manager for bringing to market safety-classified test equipment for the third generation of the TELPERM XS platform. In parallel, as the opportunity presented itself, He also supported several plant startups and commissioning activities on German Konvoi reactor protection systems, which added to his plant startup and commissioning experience (>25 startups in total).
Matthys completed His Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (BTech) at the Cape University of Technology in Cape Town in 2006. He is a registered member and certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) at the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Matthys’s international expert activities include member at EPRI of the Digital Systems Engineering User Group (DSEUG), where he’s a reviewer of the Digital Engineering Guide (DEG) and a co-author of the Digital Maintenance & Management Guide (DMG). Matthys is also an I&C Expert at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, where he co-authored several publications and participated as a German Delegate to the Technical Working Group Nuclear Power Plant I&C (TWG-NPPIC) 2025.
