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Paolo Ricci

paolo.ricci@epfl.ch http://spc.epfl.ch/

EPFL SB SPC-TH
PPB 318 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

Paolo Ricci earned his Master's degree in nuclear engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) in 2000. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with focus on kinetic simulation of magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. He spent two-and-a-half years as a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he worked on gyrokinetic simulations of the Z pinch. He joined the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, as a EURATOM fellow in 2006, was named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2010, Associate Professor in August 2016, and Full Professor in October 2023. He is the Director of the Swiss Plasma Center and he heads its theory group. Paolo Ricci is the recipient of the 2016 Section de Physique Teaching Prize, of the 2021 Craie d'Or award from the EPFL physics bachelor students, and of the 2021 Polysphère d'Or award from AGEPoly.

Ph.D. Theses

Here you can find
the list of Ph.D. theses.

Research interests

Numerical simulation of laboratory plasmas and plasmas for fusion, plasma turbulence and instabilities, basic plasma physics, large-scale numerical simulations, numerical methods for plasma physics.

Selected publications

Ph.D. Theses

Infoscience

Conference presentation

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Andrea Fedrigucci, Samuel Ernst, Sergio García Herreros, Brenno Jason Sanzio Peter De Lucca, Zeno Tecchiolli, Tyler John-Anselme Benkley, Jacob Emil Mencke, Micol Bassanini, Pablo Diaz Lobo

Past EPFL PhD Students

Joaquim Loizu (2013), Annamaria Mosetto (2014), Fabio Riva (2017), Christoph Wersal (2017), Paola Paruta (2018), Rogério Jorge (2019), Carrie Beadle (2021), André Calado Coroado (2021), Maurizio Giacomin (2022), Baptiste Jimmy Frei (2023), Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann (2024), António João Caeiro Heitor Coelho (2024), Louis Nicolas Stenger (2026)

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Margherita Guido (2026)

Ph.D. theses, M.Sc. theses, and semester projects

The lists of past Ph.D. theses,
M.Sc. theses , and
semester projects are available.