Andrew Whittaker is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, and holds a Faculty Joint Appointment at the Idaho National Laboratory. Whittaker is a registered civil (PE, 1989) and structural engineer (SE, 1991) in the State of California. His undergraduate degree in civil engineering is from the University of Melbourne (1977) and his MS (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley. Whittaker has served the US nuclear industry for 20+ years, in a range of capacities. Andrew Whittaker has contributed to the writing of codes, standards, and guidelines for more than 30 years. He made significant contributions to the first generation of tools for performance-based earthquake engineering (FEMA 273, FEMA 274, FEMA 356, ASCE 41) and led the structural engineering team that developed the second generation of these tools (FEMA P-58). Although developed primarily for the buildings sector, these procedures are being either used directly or adapted for use in seismic analysis, design, and risk assessment of nuclear-energy facilities. Whittaker is the senior author of three NUREG/CRs (7253, 7254, 7255) written in the early 2010s on the seismic isolation of large light water reactor buildings: a research project funded by the USNRC. He has chaired the ASCE Nuclear Standards Committee since 2015. Andrew Whittaker has been recognized in his profession for academic and design-professional contributions to the nuclear energy enterprise in the United States with the 2016 ASCE Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Energy Award for “significant contributions to the energy sector through promoting the safe design and operation of nuclear power plants and DOE facilities”, the 2017 ASCE Walter P. Moore Jr. Award for “demonstrated technical expertise in the development of structural codes and standards”, including ASCE nuclear standards, the 2023 ASCE Nathan M. Newmark Medal for “his fundamental contributions to earthquake, blast, impact and performance-based engineering for buildings and mission-critical infrastructure, including advanced nuclear reactors”, and the 2023 American Nuclear Society, Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology Medal for his work developing seismic isolation technology and a regulatory framework for application to nuclear energy facilities. He is a Fellow of ASCE, a Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, and a member of ANS.