Paolo Ricci

Paolo Ricci earned his Master's degree in nuclear engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy) in 2000. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with focus 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 Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he worked on gyrokinetic simulations of the Z pinch. He joined the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, as a EURATOM fellow in 2006, was named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in June 2010, Associate Professor in August 2016, and Full Professor in October 2023. He is the Director of the Swiss Plasma Center and he heads its theory group. Paolo Ricci is the recipient of the 2016 Section de Physique Teaching Prize, of the 2021 Craie d'Or award from the EPFL physics bachelor students, and of the 2021 Polysphère d'Or award from AGEPoly.Ph.D. Theses Here you can find the list of Ph.D. theses.Research interests Numerical simulation of laboratory plasmas and plasmas for fusion, plasma turbulence and instabilities, basic plasma physics, large-scale numerical simulations, numerical methods for plasma physics. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Andrea Fedrigucci, Samuel Ernst, Sergio García Herreros, Brenno Jason Sanzio Peter De Lucca, Zeno Tecchiolli, Tyler John-Anselme Benkley, Jacob Emil Mencke, Micol Bassanini, Louis Nicolas Stenger, Pablo Diaz Lobo Past EPFL PhD Students Joaquim Loizu, Annamaria Mosetto, Fabio Riva, Christoph Wersal, Paola Paruta, Rogério Jorge, Carrie Beadle, André Calado Coroado, Maurizio Giacomin, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann, António João Caeiro Heitor Coelho Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Margherita Guido Courses Advanced physics I (mechanics) PHYS-100 Introductory Physics I (advanced) covers the mechanics of point particles and solids. The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to describe physics phenomena by using mathematical tools. Magnetic confinement PHYS-731 To provide an overview of the fundamentals of magnetic confinement (MC) of plasmas for fusion.The different MC configurations are presented, with a description of their operating regimes.The basic elements of particle & energy transport, of plasma-wall interaction & of burning plasma are introduced. Physics IV PHYS-206 Wave physics and introduction to special relativity. Ph.D. theses, M.Sc. theses, and semester projects The lists of past Ph.D. theses, M.Sc. theses , and semester projects are available.