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Contact Information

331 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1687

Tel: 608/262-4854 Fax: 608/265-2364 E-mail: fvolpe@wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Engineering Physics

• Madison Symmetric Torus

Education

• PhD 2003, Experimental Physics, University of Greifswald (Germany)
• "Laurea" 1998, Physics, University of Pisa (Italy)

Fields of Interest

Plasma Physics and Magnetic Confinement Fusion, with emphasis on:

- Microwave Heating, Current Drive and Diagnostics

- Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities and their Control

Publications

• Whole list available here.
• F. Volpe
  "A spinning mirror for fast angular scans of EBW emission for magnetic pitch profile measurements"
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 10D905 (2010)
  
• F. Volpe
  "Analytical Solution of the O-X Mode Conversion Problem"
  Phys. Lett. A 374, 1737 (2010)
  
• F.A.G. Volpe, M.E. Austin, R.J. La Haye, J. Lohr, R. Prater, E.J. Strait and A.S. Welander
  "Advanced techniques for neoclassical tearing mode control in DIII-D"
  Phys. Plasmas 16, 102502 (2009)
• F.Volpe
  "Weakly relativistic dielectric tensor for arbitrary wavenumbers"
  Phys. Plasmas 14, 122105 (2007)
• A.Mueck, L.Curchod, Y.Camenen, S.Coda, T.P.Goodman, H.P.Laqua, A.Pochelon, L.Porte, F.Volpe, TCV Team
  "Demonstration of Electron Bernstein Wave Heating in a Tokamak via O-X-B Double Mode Conversion"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175004 (2007)
• F.Volpe
  "Sensitivity of ITER ECRH Upper Launcher to Steering Errors and Changes of Profiles and Integration with Equatorial Launcher"
  Journal of Phys.: Conf.Series 25, 283 (2005)
• H.P.Laqua, H.Maassberg, N.Marushchenko, F.Volpe, A.Weller, W7-AS Team, W.Kasparek and ECRH Group
  "Electron-Bernstein-Wave Current Drive in an Overdense Plasma at the Wendelstein 7-AS Stellarator"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 75003 (2003)
• F.Volpe, H.P.Laqua and the W7-AS Team
  "BXO mode-converted electron Bernstein emission diagnostic (invited)",
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 1409 (2003)

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• 2011 DOE Early Career Award
• 2010 Marquis Who's who in Science & Engineering 2011-12
• 2007 Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Fellowship
• 2003 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Gesellschaft (MPG)
• 2002 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission

Additional experience

• General Atomics, San Diego (USA)
• UKAEA Fusion, Culham (UK)
• Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik (IPP), Garching and Greifswald (Germany)
• ENEA Centro Ricerche, Frascati (Italy)

Summary

Francesco Volpe is an experimental plasma physicist and a modeller. He worked on various tokamaks (FTU, ITER, DIII-D, AUG), on the MAST spherical tokamak and the W7-AS stellarator in Italy, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S., giving contributions to the study and applications of mode-converted electron Bernstein waves to overdense fusion plasmas and to the control of rotating and locked tearing modes by means of electron cyclotron current drive and magnetic perturbations. In 2009 he joined as a faculty the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Files and Links of Interest

• List of publications
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• cv (short)