Coordinators

Massimo Zucchetti

Massimo Zucchetti was born in Turin, Italy in 1961. He received the B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in energy and nuclear engineering at Politecnico di Torino, in 1986. from 1990, he is a full professor of nuclear power plants at Politecnico di Torino. His research field is energy science and technology, nuclear fusion technology, advanced-fuel fusion reactors, environmental and climate impact of energy technologies, nuclear reactors decommissioning, radiation protection, nuclear safety, radioactive waste management, depleted uranium, and hybrid fission/fusion experiments. He is an author of around 300 scientific publications, including 160 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, 75 papers in international conference proceedings, and several books. Polito page Researchgate Linkedin

Raffaella Testoni

Raffaella Testoni was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1987. She received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Università di Bologna in 2009, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, she was a PhD student in Energy Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. From 2017, she is a researcher at Politecnico di Torino. Her research field regards the transport of tritium for fusion application, radiation protection, nuclear safety, radioactive waste management.Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Cristina Bertani

Cristina Bertani was born in Torino in 1961. She got her M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 1986, she was PhD student in Energy Engineering from 1987 to 1990 and she became a researcher at Politecnico di Torino in July 1990. Her research regards the thermahydraulics applied to the deterministic safety analysis of fission nuclear reactors and two-phase flow in general, applied to different industrial fields. Polito page Researchgate

Ph.D. Students

Gabriele Ferrero

Gabriele Ferrero was born in Turin, Italy in 1996. He received his B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. He received his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2021. He is currently a PhD student of the Politecnico di Torino Energy Department since 2022. His research project aims to develop a detailed CFD, thermal and chemical model for ARC fusion reactor breeding blanket. His interests include thermal-hydraulics, transport of Tritium, molten salts technologies, and magnetohydrodynamics. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Davide Pettinari

Davide Pettinari was born in Città di Castello (PG), Italy, in 1996. He received his B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018, and his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the same institution in 2022. Since 2022, he is a PhD student at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Torino. His research focuses on developing safety studies for the ARC fusion reactor, with the goal of facilitating its siting in the US and Italy. His interests include neutronics, neutron damage, activation analysis, code-to-code comparison, fusion-relevant integral benchmarks, and the study of structural materials for fusion reactors. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Serena Crobu

Serena Crobu was born in Borgomanero (NO), Italy, in 1993. She received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2015, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. From 2019 to 2023 she worked for a metalworking company in the automotive sector. From 2023, she is a PhD student in Energetics at Politecnico di Torino. Her research field regards the permeation of tritium through a Pd-Ag membrane for SORGENTINA, which is a project under development and dedicated to the production of radioisotopes through a fusion neutron source. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Alessandro Morandi

Alessandro Morandi was born in Carate Brianza, Italy, in 1999. He received the B.S degree in Engineering Physics in 2021 and the M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2023, both from Politecnico di Torino. That same year, he won a PhD scholarship funded by ENI, to research the decommissioning of radioactive components from advanced fusion and fission nuclear reactors. His interests include neutronics and materials activation, thermal-hydraulics and system-level analyses for both fission and fusion reactors. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Former Ph.D. Students

Ciro Alberghi

Ciro Alberghi was born in Faenza, Italy in 1992. He received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Università di Bologna in 2016, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2019. From 2019, he is a PhD student in Energetics at Politecnico di Torino. His research field regards liquid metals magnetohydrodynamics and tritium transport for fusion applications. From 2019 he is also performing research at ENEA C.R. Brasimone, where he follows experimental activities on tritium extraction from liquid metals, estimation of hydrogen isotopes transport properties in LiPb, development of permeation sensors for hydrogen isotopes, characterization of tritium permeation barriers for fusion applications. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at ENEA Brasimone Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Luigi Candido

Luigi Candido was born in Turin, Italy in 1988. He received the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2015. from 2015 to 2018, he was research affiliate of Politecnico di Torino and ENEA C.R. Brasimone, Camugnano, BO, Italy, where he developed mathematical models for tritium transport as an application to ITER and DEMO fusion reactor. He also conducted experimental campaigns in order to study the technologies for tritium extraction from liquid metals and participated in the development of permeation sensors for fission and fusion applications. He pursued a PhD in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino.Then he worked one year at Fusion for Energy in Cadarache. Currently he is working in the United Kingdom at Kyoto Fusioneering. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Antonino Meli

Antonino Meli was born in Ragusa, Italy in 1993. He received the B.S. degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2016, and the M.S. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. In the beginning of 2019 he made some research studies concerning a multiphysics approach to interface a neutronic code and a thermomechanical one at the CEA research center of Paris. From 2019, he pursued a a PhD in Energetics at Politecnico di Torino. His research field regards radiation damage prediction on superconductors adopted in fusion application designs. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Samuele Meschini

Samuele Meschini was born in Terni, Italy, in 1994. He received the Bachelor degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2016, and the M.S degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at the end of the POLY2NUC joint program between Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, in 2019. In 2019 he won a PhD scholarship funded by ENI for the investigation of ARC fusion reactor safety. His interests include neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, system-level analyses and machine learning techniques for safety applications. He is expert on the Tritium fuel cycle for fusion reactors. Currently he is a postdoc at the MIT PSFC. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin

Stefano Segantin

Stefano Segantin was born in Rovigo, Italy in 1991. He received his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at Università di Ferrara, Italy, in 2014. He received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2017. He pursued a PhD at Politecnico di Torino Energy Department since 2018. He carried out several thermo-mechanical, neutronics and radioactive inventory analysis for the ARC reactor project of PSFC-MIT. His interests include neutronics, molecular dynamics, modeling of advanced materials for nuclear applications. Currently he is a postdoc at the MIT PSFC. Polito Page Researchgate Linkedin