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Duccio Testa

duccio.testa@epfl.ch +41 21 693 35 68

EPFL SB SPC-II
PPB 216 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

  • Physique des plasmas pour la fusion nucléaire
  • Développement de modèles mathématiques et numériques pour l'analyse statistique des fluctuations dans des systèmes physiques complexes
  • Développement d'instrumentation de mesure avec procédés de microtechnique
  • Archéologie de l'époque romaine et préromaine

Expertise

  • Physique des plasmas pour la fusion nucléaire
  • Développement de modèles mathématiques et numériques pour l'analyse statistique des fluctuations dans des systèmes physiques complexes
  • Développement d'instrumentation de mesure avec procédés de microtechnique
  • Archéologie de l'époque romaine et préromaine

Mission

  • (1998-2010) Responsible Officer (RO) on the JET tokamak for two diagnostics: the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic and the fast fluctuation measurement system
  • (2002-2007) Co-project leader for the first upgrade of the AEAD system at JET, co-leading staff from different institutions (EPFL, MIT, UKAEA). The project was successfully completed on schedule with the delivery to JET of the in-vessel antennas and modified plant control equipment in 2005, and the final commissioning of the system completed in 2007
  • (2010 to present) Principal scientific and technical advisor for the second upgrade of the AEAD system at JET, providing guidance to a team from different academic and commercial institutions (EPFL, MIT, CCFE, University of Sao Paulo Brazil, National Instruments USA and Europe). The project was successfully completed in October 2016
  • (2015 to present) Responsible Officer (RO) on the TCV tokamak for the high-frequency magnetic diagnostic system
  • (2010-2012) Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the LTCC-1D sensors that have been installed on the FTU tokamak (Frascati, Italy)
    (2012-2013) Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the LTCC-2D sensors that have been installed on the WEST tokamak (Cadarache, France)
    (2013-2015) Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the LTCC-3D sensors that have been installed on the TCV tokamak (Lausanne, Switzerland)
    (2010-2016) Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the prototype LTCC-1D sensors foreseen for installation on the ITER tokamak (Cadarache, France)
  • (from 2022 onwards)
    Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the prototype inductive magnetic sensors
    produced with photolithography techniques foreseen for installation in DTT and DEMO

Travail en cours

  • (from 2022 onwards)
    Leading the EPFL team designing, manufacturing and testing the prototype inductive magnetic sensors
    produced with photolithography techniques foreseen for installation in DTT and DEMO
  • (from 2015 onwards) Responsible Officer (RO) on the TCV tokamak for the high-frequency magnetic diagnostic system
  • (from 2015 onwards) Développement de modèles mathématiques et numériques pour l'analyse statistique des fluctuations dans des systèmes physiques complexes
  • sailing instructor, Italian Navy Military Academy in Livorno
  • orienteering instructor, Italian & UK Orienteering Federations
  • basketball instructor, Italian & UK Basketball Federations
  • sport kids (4 to 10 years old) instructor, Jeunesse & Sport Suisse
  • rugby instructor (10 to 18 years old), Jeunesse & Sport Suisse
  • coach for various age groupes in the Ecole de Rugby de Lausanne between 2010 and 2020
  • coach for the Lausanne University VII's rugby team, men & women, between 2017 & 2020
  • coach for the RF1 basketball team of the Renens Basket (from 09/2023)

Formation

High School Diploma

| 60/60 marks

1988 – 1988 Liceo Classico Vincenzo Gioberti, Torino, IT

Bachelor/Master in Physics

| 110/110 cum laude marks

1994 – 1994 Universita di Torino, IT

European Community Research Training Grant

| Research Fellowship

1995 – 1995 JET-Joint Undertaking, Oxford, UK

Ph.D. in Plasma Physics

| Ph.D. Fellowship

1995 – 1998 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

Post-Doc Fellow

| Post-Doc Fellowship

1998 – 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Boston, USA

Expériences professionnelles

Archaeology

1988–1995

Soprintendenza Archeologica per l’Etruria Meridionale, Rome, IT

Research Assistant

1994–1995

Astronomical Observatory of Pino Torinese, Torino (Italy)

1994–1995

various high schools in Torino (Italy)

Physicist

1995–1998

JET – Joint Undertaking (Oxford)

Physicist

1998–2002

Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA

Research & Teaching

2002–2002

Centre de Recherche en Physiques des Plasmas (now Swiss Plasma Center), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

Enseignement et PhD

A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de

Theodoros Panis, Lorenzo Stipani

Cours

Innovation durable en énergie

HUM-292

Ce cours propose une introduction aux fondamentaux techniques, sociaux et économiques de l'énergie. On examinera le cas concret de la fusion nucléaire. Comment cette énergie pourrait remodeler notre monde? Comment garantir son acceptabilité, son intégration structurelle et sa viabilité économique?