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Paolo Ricci earned a Master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy in 2000. His doctoral studies were conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focusing 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's Department of Physics and Astronomy, working on gyrokinetic simulations of Z pinch. Ricci joined EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center as an EURATOM fellow in 2006 and was named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2010, Associate Professor in August 2016, and Full Professor in October 2023. Currently, he serves as the Director of the Swiss Plasma Center and heads the theory group. Ricci has received several awards for his teaching, including the 2016 Section de Physique Teaching Prize and the 2021 Craie d'Or award from EPFL physics bachelor students. His research interests include numerical simulation in laboratory plasmas, plasma fusion, plasma turbulence instabilities, basic plasma physics, and large-scale numerical simulations.
Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, CH
Director and head of the theory group at the Swiss Plasma Center.
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