Francesco Romano

francesco.romano@epfl.ch +41 21 693 88 66

EPFL SB SPC-TCV
PPB 223 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 88 66
Office: PPB 223
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Expertise

Gyrotrons, Non-Neutral Plasma, Electric Space Propulsion, Helicon Plasma Thrusters, Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion

Biography Awards Research

Born in Sassari and grew up in Udine, I studied Aerospace Engineering for Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. in Italy and Germany. I also graduated in organ and organ composition at the conservatory in Italy. Love space, science, music (piano, organ, classical, classic rock), endurance and uphill cycling, classic sport cars, LEGO and Star Wars!

Education

Aerospace Engineering Sciences

| Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion and Helicon Plasma Thrusters

2021 – 2021 University of Stuttgart, Germany
Directed by Design, build, integrate, test a novel helicon plasma thruster

Aerospace Engineering

2014 – 2014 University of Padua, Italy

Organ and Organ Composition

| Professional concert organist

2013 – 2013 Conservatory of Rovigo, Italy

Aerospace Engineering

2011 – 2011 University of Padua, Italy

Professionals experiences

Research Associate

EU H2020 DISCOVERER

2014–2021

Institute of Space Systems (IRS), University of Stuttgart, Germany

Awards

Prize "Freunde der Universität Stuttgart" Best Master Thesis of the Aerospace Engineering Faculty of the University of Stuttgart

Freunde der Universität Stuttgart

2015

3-year Doctoral Scholarship

Landesgraduiertenförderung, University of Stuttgart

2015

Research

Current Research Fields

Non-neutral plasma, electron plasma, gyrotrons

T-REX: TRapped Electron eXperiment

Novel experiment re-creating the first part of a gyrotron's electron gun to study electron-cloud physics. Nonneutral plasmas.