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Phillip Finck received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1982, and a MBA in 2001 from The University of Chicago. He was a mechanical engineer at NOVATOME, France from 1983 to 1986, and was involved in the safety and design of fast reactors, including Superphenix. In 1986, he joined Argonne National Laboratory and was involved in neutronics methods development for the Integral Fast Reactor concept, and later for the New Production Reactor.

In 1991, he became the lead for EBR-II neutronics analyses at ANL-E. In 1993 he joined the French Atomic Energy Commission where he became the head of the Reactor Physics Laboratory at the Cadarache Center, with activities in LWR and LMR physics, criticality safety, fuel cycle physics, and nuclear data. In 1995, he was elected to chair the European nuclear data project - JEF. Dr. Finck rejoined ANL in 1997, where he became the Associate Director of the Technology Development Division. He has led the ANL activities in the Advanced Accelerator Applications program since 2000, and has been heavily involved in transforming the program from accelerator-based to reactor-based transmutation.

In 2003 he was named Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Engineering Research, where he was responsible for coordination of all nuclear energy related activities at ANL, including AFCI and Gen-IV programs, and development of new initiatives. Since 2004, Dr. Finck is the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Science and Technology and National Security; in this position, he coordinates all energy-related activities at ANL.

Dr. Finck is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.