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During my internship, I worked on the neutronic analysis of the ITER neutron diagnostic system, focusing on the development of a Green’s function-based methodology for the interpretation of detector signals. The activity was carried out using Monte Carlo simulations with the OpenMC code.

During my internship, I worked on the neutronic analysis of the ITER neutron diagnostic system, focusing on the development of a Green’s function-based methodology for the interpretation of detector signals. The activity was carried out using Monte Carlo simulations with the OpenMC code.

IntroductionDuring my recent internship at the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) at EPFL, I had the unique opportunity to dive deep into the numerical foundations of tokamak operations. My project focused on the MEQ (Matlab EQuilibrium) framework, a sophisticated suite of tools originally developed for the TCV tokamak. The goal of my work was to prove the modularity of this system by adapting it to a completely different machine: the TRUST university tokamak.

During the 2024–2025 academic year, I had the opportunity to carry out a research internship at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with financial support from FuseNet. As a Mathematical Engineering student at Politecnico di Torino, my work focused on combining gyrokinetic simulations with system identification techniques to address the challenging physics of turbulent heat transport, with the broader aim of contributing to time-dependent control strategies for future fusion devices.

I conducted my internship at Consorzio RFX in Padua, Italy, where I joined the team at the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) to develop the mechanical design of a new plasma diagnostic for the MINION experiment.  

From April to July 2025, I had the opportunity to do an internship at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. I joined the neutral beam group in developing a new ion source for their beams. 

First steps of the ECRH design for a SQuID-like Stellarator reactor

From April to October 2025, I had the opportunity to carry out my master thesis at EUROfusion in Garching bei München (Germany), supported by FuseNet. The thesis proposes a simplified model for the preliminary structural sizing of the toroidal magnetic system in a tokamak configuration. The case study discussed is the Volumetric Neutron Source (VNS).

The Duplex Multiwire Proportional X-ray counter (DMPX) is a diagnostic in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV), operated by the Swiss Plasma Center at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The DMPX is undergoing refurbishment following damage caused by gyrotron power. Based on the multiwire proportional chamber concept developed by G. Charpak, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992, the DMPX is designed to measure soft X-ray plasma emissivity and reconstruct 2D electron temperature profiles.