Ambrogio Fasoli#
| Membership Number: | 6719 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/swiss-plasma-center/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4319-5736 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambrogio-fasoli-176540/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Programme Manager (CEO) of EUROfusion Consortium, Garching-bei-Munchen, Germany
- 2021 Associate Vice-President for Research of EPFL, CH
- 2019 Chair of General Assembly and of Bureau, EUROfusion consortium
- 2014 Editor-in-Chief, Nuclear Fusion journal, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Director, Center for Research in Plasma Physics, then Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, CH
- 2010 Head of Physics Strategic Committee, EPFL, CH
- 2007 Professor of Physics, Basic Science Faculty, EPFL, CH
- 2005 Associate Professor of Physics, Basic Science Faculty, EPFL, CH
- 1998 Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT, US
- 1993 Research Scientist, JET Joint Undertaking, Oxford, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Plasma magnetic confinement
- Magnetic reconnection
- Physics of burning plasmas
- Suprathermal particle physics
- Plasma physics
- Fusion energy
- Plasma waves
- Turbulence
Honours and Awards
- 2022 BCV Scientific Award
- 2021 Nuclear Fusion Honorary Editor
- 2014 EPFL Best Teacher’s award Polysphère
- 2008 Fellow of American Physical Society
- 2008 EPFL Best Teacher’s award Polysphère
- 2002 MIT Visiting Professor
- 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
