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Position

2024
today

Scientific collaborator

Swiss Plasma Center - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
2023
today

Research Topic Coordinator

Eurofusion WPTE/RT22-04 - Tokamak Exploitation/Physics-based machine generic systems for an integrated control of plasma discharge

Experience & Collaborations

2022
2024
Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Assistant Professor (RTD-A)

2019
2021
CREATE, Napoli, Italy

Post-doctoral researcher

2023
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA

Visiting researcher

2022
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

Visiting researcher

2019
2023
Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Visiting researcher

2019
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Cadarache, France

Visiting researcher

2016
2019
Institute for Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China

Visiting researcher

2017
ITER Remote Experimentation Centre, Rokkasho, Japan

Visiting researcher

Teaching

2025
EPFL Doctoral School in Physics (EDPY)

Control and Operation of Tokamaks

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Swiss Plasma Center (Course page)
2023
Joint European Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering

Plasma axisymmetric control
Design of plasma magnetic control systems

Università degli Studi di Padova - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
2021
2023
Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo

Controlli Automatici

2022
2023
Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo

Advanced Automation and Control

2021
Joint European Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering

Design of plasma magnetic control systems

Università degli Studi di Padova - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - University of Ghent
2021
2022
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli

Laboratorio di Sistemi di Controllo Industriali

2019
2021
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli

Tecnologie Informatiche per l'Automazione Industriale

2021
Accademia Da Vinci

PLC Programming

2016
2018
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Class tutor (calculus, physics, informatics)

Grants&Projects

2024
Eurofusion WPTE

Upgrade of the TCV magnetic control system

Main proposer of the project
2022
2023
DTT Proposal for Services - Plasma control system

Pre-conceptual study on the requirements for the DTT detachment control system

Activity responsible
2019
2021
Eurofusion Engineering Grant

Development of diagnostics adaptable to all DTT divertor options

Grant recipient
2022
YIRG 2022

Scrape-Off Layer Electromagnetic InvestigatOr (SOLEMIO)

Co-proposer
2019
2020
Fusion4Energy OPE883 Contract

Development and supply of scientific software for ITER

WP 4.17 Responsible - streaming equilibrium reconstruction code
WP 4.12 Member - observer for the induced passive currents
2017
today
Eurofusion WPSA

Tokamak discharge simulator

Developer/maintainer of the CREATE-EGENE interface for plasma magnetic equilibria
2016
2019
Eurofusion WP-ADC

Control of alternative magnetic configurations

Participation in the experimental campaigns of the EAST tokamak

Journals&Conferences

Jul. 2024
10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies

Organizer and co-chair of the special session "Optimization and control for fusion plasmas"
Co-chair of the session "Advanced Control Solutions for Nonlinear Systems"

Jul. 2023
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications

Organizer of the session "Diagnostic and Control Systems for Nuclear Fusion Reactors"

Mar. 2023
Today
Franklin Open

Associate Editor

Education

2020
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Abilitazione all'esercizio della professione di Ingegnere Industriale

09/10
2015
2019
Università degli Studi di Padova - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Ph.D. Joint European Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering

A flexible architecture for plasma magnetic control in tokamak reactors
Excellent
2013
2015
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

M.Sc. Automation and Control Engineering

Controllo di corrente e forma per il plasma del tokamak EAST
110/110 cum laude
2010
2013
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

B.Sc. Automation and Control Engineering

Taratura di un regolatore PID mediante formule di inversione e realizzazione di una piattaforma mobile equipaggiata con ruote omnidirezionali Mecanum
110/110 cum laude