CONFIRMED SPEAKER

Ambrogio Fasoli

Ambrogio Fasoli

Professor Plasma Physics at EPFL, Director of the Swiss Plasma Center

The current state and what the future might bring in fusion energy projects.

Ambrogio Fasoli is a researcher and professor working in the field of fusion and plasma physics. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, he is Director of the Swiss Plasma Center, located at EPFL. Since 1 January 2019, he chairs the European consortium, the umbrella organisation for the development of nuclear fusion power in Europe.
From 2014 through 2020, he was also Editor-in-Chief of Nuclear Fusion, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the IAEA. Fasoli represents Switzerland on the Governing Board of Fusion For Energy, the agency that manages Europe's contributions to the international fusion reactor project
Since January 2021, he is Associate Vice President for Research of EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.