Ambrogio Fasoli

Full Professor
ambrogio.fasoli@epfl.ch 41 21 693 34 92 http://crpp.epfl.ch/
Citizenship : Italien
Birth date : 10.11.1964
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CH-1015 Lausanne
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CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://spc.epfl.ch/
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Fields of expertise
Fusion energy
Biography
After a classical high school diploma (Maturità Classica) and graduation from the University of Milano, with the degree of Dottore in Fisica, he obtained his Phd at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) with a thesis on chaos in wave-particle interactions in plasmas, which was awarded the Best EPFL Thesis prize, in 1993.
He then moved to the JET Joint Undertaking, the largest worlds fusion device, near Oxford, UK, to investigate Alfvén waves and burning plasma physics.
In 1995-1996 he took a sabbatical leave, visiting several Universities and Research Institutes in Europe and in the USA, including three months at General Atomics in San Diego.
In 1996-1997, during a second period at JET, he participated in the fusion power worlds record experiments in Deuterium-Tritium plasmas at JET.
In 1997 he was nominated Assistant Professor in MIT Physics Department, where he led a basic plasma physics group and the international collaboration between MIT and JET.
In 2001 Ambrogio FASOLI was nominated Assistant Professor of Physics at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Professeur Boursier of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He became member of CRPP Directorate and took the leadership of CRPP basic plasma physics group and of the TCV tokamak, one of the major fusion experiments worldwide. At European level he was scientific coordinator for JET experiments, spokesperson for multi-machine experiments in the frame of International Tokamak Physics Activities, and Project Leader for a JET Enhancement project. In 2005 he became Associate Professor of Physics with tenure at EPFL, then member of EFDA Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and of the Steering Committee of the Association EURATOM-Swiss Confederation.
From 2006 he was also Deputy Director, then from 2007 Executive Director of CRPP and from 2008 Full Professor of Physics at EPFL. For a number of years he was the Chair of the EPFL Physics Strategic Committee and a member of the Directorate of the EPFL School of Sciences. Since the summer of 2014 Professor FASOLI was the sole Director of CRPP.
He now represents Switzerland in the EUROfusion General Assembly and Bureau, and in the Governing Board for Fusion for Energy.
He is member of the EUROfusion DEMO project Board, of the Scientific Board of the Helmotz Virtual Institute on Advanced Microwave Diagnostics, of the European Delegation for the Cooperation between Euratom and the Government of India in Fusion Energy Research, of the European Consortium for the development of the ITER gyratron (EGYC), and participates to numerous international review panels.
He chairs the FuseNet Academic Council, the International Advisory Panel for the Laboratory of Excellence Plas@Par in the Sorbonne Universities, the European Consortium for the construction of the ITER microwave Upper Launcher (ECHUL), and the Promotion Committee of the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences.
He is one the three European representatives in the International Tokamak Physics Activities Coordinating Committee, advising ITER, and the Editor-in-Chief of the IAEA journal Nuclear Fusion.
Since January 2019, Ambrogio Fasoli is the Chair of the General Assembly, i.e. the president of EUROfusion, the European Consortium for Development of Fusion Energy.
Professor FASOLI is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and since 2001 a Visiting Professor at MIT Physics Department.
He is the Director of the Swiss Plasma Center.
Mission
Advance our knowledge of the plasma state of matter for fusion and for astrophysical applications.
Current work
Basic plasma physics for fusion on the TORPEX device .
Burning plasmas in the JET tokamak and for ITER .
Awards
2008: Fellow of American Physical Society
2008: Polysphère, EPFL Teaching award
2006: Marie Curie Fellowship, as host of Dr. P.Ricci
2002: Marie Curie Fellowship, as host of Dr. M.McGrath
2001: Swiss National Science Foundation Professeur Boursier
2000: US Department of Energy - Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Award
1999: MIT Charles Reed Faculty Award
1993: EPFL best thesis Award
Professional course
Director, Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, 2015 - present
Director
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2014 - 2015
Executive Director
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2007 - present
Professor of Physics
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2008 - present
Deputy Director
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2006 - 2014
Associate Professor of Physics
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2005-2006
Assistant Professor of Physics
Center for Research in Plasma Physics
EPFL
2001-2005
Assistant Professor of Physics
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
MIT
1998-2001
Scientist
Center for Research in Plasma Physics and JET Joint Undertaking
EPFL and JET, Oxford UK
1993 - 1997
Education
PhD
Plasma Physics
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
1993
Master in Science
Physics
Milano, Italy
1988
Publications
Other publications
Selected publications
K. Gustafson, P. Ricci, I. Furno, and A. Fasoli , "Nondiffusive Suprathermal Ion Transport in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035006 (2012).
I. Furno et al., A. Fasoli, " Direct Two-Dimensional Measurements of the Field-Aligned Current Associated with Plasma Blobs", Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 245001 (2011).
A Fasoli et al., "Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in the TORPEX device", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52 124020 (2010).
A.Fasoli et al., "Active excitation and damping rate measurement of intermediate-n toroidal Alfven eigenmodes in JET, C-Mod and MAST plasmas", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52, 075015 (2009)
A.Fasoli; TCV Team , "Overview of physics research on the TCV tokamak", Nucl. Fusion 49, 104005 (2009)
C.Theiler et al., A.Fasoli , "Cross-Field Motion of Plasma Blobs in an Open Magnetic Field Line Configuration", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065001 (2009)
A.Diallo et al., A.Fasoli, "Dynamics of Plasma Blobs in a Sheared Flow", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115005 (2008)
M.Podestà, A.Fasoli et al., "Cross-Field Transport by Instabilities and Blobs in a Magnetized Toroidal Plasma", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045001 (2008)
I. Furno et al., A. Fasoli, "Experimental Observation of the Blob-Generation Mechanism from Interchange Waves in a Plasma", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 055004 (2008)
A.Fasoli et al. , "Overview of TCV results", Nucl. Fusion 48, 034001 (2008)
A.Fasoli et al., "Physics of energetic ions", Chapter 5 of ITER Physics Basis Nuclear Fusion 47, S264 (2007)
S.H.Muller, A.Fasoli, et al. , "Effects of a vertical magnetic field on particle confinement in a magnetized plasma torus", Physical Review Letters 93 (16) (2004)
J.Egedal, A.Fasoli and J.Nazemi , "Dynamical Plasma Response During Driven Magnetic Reconnection", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135003 (2003)
A Fasoli et al., "MHD Spectroscopy", Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fusion 44, B159 (2002)
J.Egedal and A.Fasoli , "Single-particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5047 (2001)
A. Fasoli et al., "Nonlinear Splitting Of Fast Particle Driven Waves In A Plasma: Observation And Theory", Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5564 (1998).
A.Fasoli et al., "Observation Of Multiple Kinetic Alfvén Eigenmodes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 76(7), 1067 (1996).
A.Fasoli et al., "Direct Measurement Of The Damping Of Toroidicity Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(4), 645 (1995)
A.Fasoli et al., "Dynamical Chaos Of Plasma Ions In Electrostatic Waves", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 303 (1993).
A.Fasoli et al., "Direct Measurement Of Ion Phase-Space Orbits In An Electrostatic Field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2052 (1989).
CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS (last 5 years)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (last 5 years)
- Turner M for the AWAKE Collaboration, A. Fasoli, Experimental study of wakefields driven by a self-modulating proton bunch in plasma, Physical Review Accelerators And Beams 23, 081302 (2020)
- Tinguely RA, Puglia PG, Fil N, Dowson S, Porkolab M, Fasoli A , Testa D and JET Contributors, Results from the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic during the 2019-2020 JET deuterium campaign, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62 115002 (2020)
- Micheletti P, Baquero-Ruiz M, Manke F, Furno I, Ricci P, Fasoli A , Bowen P, Morais C, Zhao W, Cathodoluminescent screen imaging system for seeded blob detection in toroidal plasma experiment, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 053501 (2020)
- Manke F, Baquero-Ruiz M, Furno I, Chellai O, Fasoli A , Ricci P, Characterizing time intermittency in non-diffusive fast ion transport through plasma turbulence, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62, 014004 (2020)
- Dvornova A, Huijsmans GTA, Sharapov S, Artola Such FJ, Puglia P, Hoelzl M, Pamela S, Fasoli A , Testa D, Modeling of TAE mode excitation with an antenna in realistic X-point geometry, Physics of Plasmas 27 012507 (2020)
- Fasoli A , Reimerdes H, Alberti S, Baquero-Ruiz M, Duval BP, Havlikova E, Karpushov A, Moret JM, Toussaint M, Elaian H, Silva M, Theiler C, Vaccaro D, TCV heating and divertor upgrades, Nucl. Fusion 60 016019 (2020)
- Fasoli A , Nucl. Fusion 60 010201 (2020)
- Fasoli, A., Furno, I. & Ricci, P. The role of basic plasmas studies in the quest for fusion power, Nature Physics 15, 872 (2019)
- F. Manke, M. Baquero-Ruiz, I. Furno, O. Chellaï, A. Fasoli, and P. Ricci, Truncated Lévy motion through path integrals and applications to nondiffusive suprathermal ion transport, Phys. Rev. E 100, 052122 (2019).
- Joffrin E for the JET Team, Fasoli A , Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium–tritium operation with the ITER like-wall, Nucl. Fusion 59 112021 (2019)
- Coda S for the TCV Team, Fasoli A , Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond, Nucl. Fusion 59 112023 (2019)
- Manke F, Baquero-Ruiz M, Furno I, Chellai O, Fasoli A , Ricci P, Time intermittency in nondiffusive transport regimes of suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas, Phys Rev E 99, 053208 (2019)
- Fasoli A , Nucl. Fusion 59 010202 (2019)
- Aslanyan, V; Taimourzadeh, S. ; Shi, L. ; Lin, Z. ; Dong, G. ; Puglia, P. ; Porkolab, M. ; Dumont, R. ; Sharapov, S. E. ; Mailloux, J. ; Tsalas, M. ; Maslov, M. ; Whitehead, A. ; Scannell, R. ; Gerasimov, S. ; Dorling, S. ; Dowson, S. ; Sheikh, H. K. ; Blackman, T. ; Jones, G. ; Goodyear, A. ; Kirov, K. K. ; Blanchard, P. ; Fasoli, A. ; Testa, D., Gyrokinetic simulations of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes excited by energetic ions and external antennas on the Joint European Torus, Nucl. Fusion 59 026008 (2019)
- Baquero-Ruiz M, Manke F, Furno I, Fasoli A , Ricci P, Meandering particle bunches and a link between averages of time series of particle counts and higher-order moments, Phys Rev E 98, 032111 (2018)
- Fasoli A , Nucl. Fusion 58 010201 (2018)
- R. Wenninger, R. Albanese, R. Ambrosino, F. Arbeiter, J. Aubert, C. Bachmann, L. Barbato, T. Barrett, M. Beckers, W. Biel, L. Boccaccini, D. Carralero, D. Coster, T. Eich, A. Fasoli, G. Federici, M. Firdaouss, J. Graves, J. Horacek, M. Kovari, S. Lanthaler, V. Loschiavo, C. Lowry, H. Lux, G. Maddaluno, F. Maviglia, R. Mitteau, R. Neu, D. Pfefferle, K. Schmid, M. Siccinio, B. Sieglin, C. Silva, A. Snicker, F. Subba, J. Varje and H. Zohm, The DEMO wall load challenge, Nucl. Fusion 57 046002 (2017)
- Alexander N. Karpushov, René Chavan, Stefano Coda, Vladimir I.Davydenko, Frédéric Dolizy, Aleksandr N. Dranitchnikov, Basil P.Duval, Alexander A. Ivanov, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Vyacheslav V. Kolmogorov, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Yves Martin, Antoine Merle, Albert Perez, Matthieu Toussaint, Neutral beam heating on the TCV tokamak, Fusion Engineering and Design 123, 468 (2017)
- Coda S for the TCV Team, Fasoli A , Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades, Nucl. Fusion 57, 102011 (2017)
- Litaudon X for the JET Team, Fasoli A , Overview of the JET results in support to ITER, Nucl. Fusion 57, 102001 (2017)
- Fasoli A , Nucl. Fusion 57 010202 (2017)
- Furno I, Bovet A, Fasoli A , Non-diffusive transport of suprathermal ions by intermittent turbulent structures, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 58, 114023 (2016)
- Holzer, Adrian ; Vonèche Cardia, Isabelle ; Bendahan, Samuel ; Berne, Alexis ; Bragazza, Luca ; Danalet, Antonin ; Fasoli, Ambrogio ; Feige, Jérôme ; Gillet, Denis ; Isaac, Siara ; Le Duc, Ingrid ; Preissmann, Delphine ; Tormey, Roland, Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program, International Journal Of Engineering Education 32, 614 (2016)
- Pfefferle, D ; Cooper, W A ; Fasoli, A ; Graves, J P, Effects of magnetic ripple on 3D equilibrium and alpha particle confinement in the European DEMO, Nucl. Fusion 56 112002 (2016)
- Avino F, Fasoli A , Furno I, Ricci P, Theiler, X-point effect on plasma blob dynamics, Physical Review Letters 116 105001 (2016)
- Baquero-Ruiz M, Avino F, Chellai O, Fasoli A , Furno I, Jacquier R, Dual Langmuir-probe array for 3D plasma studies in TORPEX, Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 113504 (2016)
- Fasoli A , Nucl. Fusion 56 010201 (2016)
- P. Puglia, W. Pires de Sa, P. Blanchard, S. Dorling, S. Dowson, A. Fasoli, J. Figueiredo, R. Galvão, M. Graham, G. Jones, C. Perez von Thun, M. Porkolab, L. Ruchko, D. Testa, P. Woskov, M.A. Albarracin-Manrique and JET Contributors, The upgraded JET toroidal Alfven eigenmode diagnostic system, Nucl. Fusion 56 112020 (2016)
- Testa, D ; Carfantan, H ; Albergante, M ; Blanchard, P ; Bourguignon, S ; Fasoli, A ; Goodyear, A ; Klein, A ; Lister, J B ; Panis, T, Sparse representation of signals: from astrophysics to real-time data analysis for fusion plasmas and system optimization analysis for ITER and TCV, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 58 123001 (2016)
- Fasoli A., Brunner S., Cooper W.A., Graves J.P., Ricci P., Sauter O. and Villard L., Computational challenges in magnetic-fusion plasma physics, Nature Physics 12, 411 (2016)
- Alexander N. Karpushov, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Vladimir I.Davydenko, Basil P.Duval, Alexander A.Ivanov, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Aleksander I.Gorbovsky, Timothy Goodman, Vyacheslav V.Kolmogorov, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Aleksey V.Sorokin, Matthieu Toussaint, Upgrade of the TCV tokamak, first phase: Neutral beam heating system, Fusion Engineering and Design 96, 493 (2015)
- G. Zimbardo, E. Amato, A. Bovet, F. Effenberger, A. Fasoli, H. Fichtner, I. Furno, K. Gustafson, P. Ricci and S. Perri, Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Journal of Plasma Physics 81, 495810601 (2015)
- Romanelli F , on behalf of the JET Contributors, Fasoli A , Overview of the JET results, Nucl. Fusion 55 104001 (2015)
- R. Wenninger, F. Arbeiter, J. Aubert, L. Aho-Mantila, R. Albanese, R. Ambrosino, C. Angioni, J.-F. Artaud, M. Bernert, E. Fable, A. Fasoli, G. Federici, J. Garcia, G. Giruzzi, F. Jenko, P. Maget, M. Mattei, F. Maviglia, E. Poli, G. Ramogida, C. Reux, M. Schneider, B. Sieglin, F. Villone, M. Wischmeier and H. Zohm, Advances in the physics basis for the European DEMO design Nuclear Fusion 55 063003 (2015)
- Spolaore M, N. Vianello, I. Furno, D. Carralero, M. Agostini, J. A. Alonso, F. Avino, R. Cavazzana, G. De Masi, A. Fasoli, C. Hidalgo, E. Martines, B. Momo, A. Scaggion, P. Scarin, S. Spagnolo, G. Spizzo, C. Theiler, and M. Zuin, Electromagnetic turbulent structures: A ubiquitous feature of the edge region of toroidal plasma configurations Physics of Plasmas 22 (2015)
- Ricci P, Riva F, Theiler C, Fasoli A, Furno I, Halpern F D and Loizu J, Approaching the investigation of plasma turbulence through a rigorous verification and validation procedure: A practical example Physics of Plasmas 22 055704 (2015)
- Furno I, Avino F, Bovet A, Diallo A, Fasoli A , Gustafson K, Iraji D, Labit B, Loizu J, Müller S H, Plyushchev G, Podestà M, Poli F M, Ricci P and Theiler C, Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX Journal of Plasma Physics 81 345810310 (2015)
- Fasoli A , Nuclear Fusion 55 010201 (2015)
- Fasoli A and Team TCV, TCV heating and in-vessel upgrades for addressing DEMO physics issues Nuclear Fusion 55 043006 (2015)
- Nespoli F, Labit B, Furno I, Canal G P, Fasoli A and Team TCV, Heat loads in inboard limited L-mode plasmas in TCV Journal of Nuclear Materials 463 393-6 (2015)
- Medvedev S Y, Kikuchi M, Villard L, Takizuka T, Diamond D, Zushi H, Nagasaki K, Duan X, Wu Y, Ivanov A A, Martynov A A, Poshekhonov Y Y, Fasoli A and Sauter O, The negative triangularity tokamak: stability limits and prospects as a fusion energy system Nuclear Fusion 55 063013 (2015)
- Bovet A, Fasoli A, Ricci P, Furno I and Gustafson K, Nondiffusive transport regimes for suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas Physical Review E 91 041101 (2015)
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Teaching
Physics