People

Massimo Zucchetti was born in Turin, Italy in 1961. He received the B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in energy and nuclear engineering at Politecnico di Torino, in 1986. from 1990, he is a full professor of nuclear power plants at Politecnico di Torino. His research field is energy science and technology, nuclear fusion technology, advanced-fuel fusion reactors, environmental and climate impact of energy technologies, nuclear reactors decommissioning, radiation protection, nuclear safety, radioactive waste management, depleted uranium, and hybrid fission/fusion experiments. He is an author of around 300 scientific publications, including 160 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, 75 papers in international conference proceedings, and several books.

Raffaella Testoni was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1987. She received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Università di Bologna in 2009, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, she was a PhD student in Energy Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. From 2017, she is a researcher at Politecnico di Torino. Her research field regards the transport of tritium for fusion application, radiation protection, nuclear safety, radioactive waste management.

Luigi Candido was born in Turin, Italy in 1988. He received the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2015. from 2015 to 2018, he was research affiliate of Politecnico di Torino and ENEA C.R. Brasimone, Camugnano, BO, Italy, where he developed mathematical models for tritium transport as an application to ITER and DEMO fusion reactor. He also conducted experimental campaigns in order to study the technologies for tritium extraction from liquid metals and participated in the development of permeation sensors for fission and fusion applications. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Energy Engineering from Politecnico di Torino.

Gabriele Ferrero was born in Turin, Italy in 1996. He received his B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. He received his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2021. He is currently a PhD student of the Politecnico di Torino Energy Department since 2022. His research project aims to develop a detailed CFD, thermal and chemical model for ARC fusion reactor breeding blanket. His interests include thermal-hydraulics, transport of Tritium, molten salts technologies, and magnetohydrodynamics.

Antonino Meli was born in Ragusa, Italy in 1993. He received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2016, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. In the beginning of 2019 he made some research studies concerning a multiphysics approach to interface a neutronic code and a thermomechanical one at the CEA research center of Paris. From 2019, he is a PhD student in Energetics at Politecnico di Torino. His research field regards radiation damage prediction on superconductors adopted in fusion application designs.

Samuele Meschini was born in Terni, Italy, in 1994. He received the Bachelor degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2016, and the M.S degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at the end of the POLY2NUC joint program between Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, in 2019. In 2019 he won a PhD scholarship funded by ENI for the investigation of ARC fusion reactor safety. His interests include neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, system-level analyses and machine learning techniques for safety applications.

Stefano Segantin was born in Rovigo, Italy in 1991. He received his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at Università di Ferrara, Italy, in 2014. He received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2017. He is currently a PhD student of the Politecnico di Torino Energy Department since 2018. He carried out several thermo-mechanical, neutronics and radioactive inventory analysis for the ARC reactor project of PSFC-MIT. His interests include neutronics, molecular dynamics, modeling of advanced materials for nuclear applications.