Curriculum Vitae Personal information Surname / First name Spagnolo Silvia Place / date of birth Vicenza (Italy), 22nd May 1982 Nationality Italian Address Via Lago di Fimon 4B, 36057 Arcugnano, Vicenza (VI), Italy Telephone +39 347 4898968 E-mail silvia.spagnolo@igi.cnr.it Work experience Dates June 2014 - now Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy Study of high frequency magnetic fluctuations in the RFX-mod plasma and project and development of diagnostics for the Neutral Beam Injector prototype for ITER Dates October 2015 Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Munich (Germany) Analysis of the Alfvén cascades in AUG tokamak plasma in order to gain knowledge about q profile evolution Dates October 2014 - January 2015 Physics and Astronomy Department Dates July-August 2014 Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Oxfordshire (England) Analysis of the Alfvén cascades in JET tokamak plasma in order to gain knowledge about q profile evolution Dates June 2012 May 2014 Research grant Fusion Research Center, Fusion Science and Engineering Prof. Francesco Gnesotto Main activities Dates November 2012 - May 2013 Professor assistant for the Physics Laboratory course
Engineering Department Dates January May 2012 Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy Study of high frequency magnetic fluctuations observed at the edge plasma region in the RFX-mod device Dates April May 2012 Engineering Department Dates December 2011 January 2012 Engineering Department Dates March - April 2011 Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden) Analysis of the effect of external magnetic perturbations on plasma edge profiles by means of magnetic tri-axial coils and balanced triple Langmuir probes in Extrap T2R device. Dates April - May 2010 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Padova, Italy) Dates November - December 2009 Engineering Department Dates April - May 2009 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Padova, Italy) Dates April December 2008 Research grant Consorzio RFX Istituto Gas Ionizzati, National Research Council (Padova,Italy) Stationary and time-dependent simulations of plasma magnetic fields in the reversed field pinch configuration and validation through experimental data comparison
Dates April - May 2008 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Padova, Italy) Other experiences Dates February 2011 Main activities Organizing committee for the RFX programme workshop Consorzio RFX, Padova Main activities Dates 21st-23th October 2014 Local organizing committee for the joint meeting of the MHD, Disruptions & Control and Energetic Particle Physics Topical Groups of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) Consorzio RFX, Padova Education and training Dates May 2015 Name of the course Principles of electromagnetic waves shielding (1 CFU) Fusion Research Center, Dates April 2015 Name of the course EMI-EMC compatibility and Radiation Sources (2 CFU) Fusion Research Center, Dates January 2009 December 2011 Final grade Physics PhD Excellent Study of high frequency magnetic fluctuations observed at the edge region in RFX-mod device High frequency magnetic activities in a Reversed-Field Pinch plasma Prof. Piero Martin The research activity described in the thesis mainly concerns the study of high frequency magnetic fluctuations occurring in RFX-mod plasma, measured by in-vessel diagnostics with high space and time resolution. In particular, important instabilities such as g-modes, Alfvén Eigenmodes and Microtearing modes, have been detected for the first time and physically characterized.
Dates September 2009 Name of the course Advanced courses on Fusion Physics European Phd in Fusion Science and Engineering Max-Planck Institute fϋr Plasmaphysik in Garching, Monaco (Germany) The course covered the main aspects of fusion plasma physics. Dates September 2007 Certificate of attendance at Summer University 2007 Max-Planck Institute fϋr Plasmaphysik in Greifswald (Germany) The course covered the main aspects of plasma physics with emphasis on nuclear fusion. Dates March 2007 Certificate of attendance at the course Energy Manager energy profession Blu Energy Control S.r.l Training course in renewable energies and energy saving. Dates 2005-2007 Final grade Second level degree in physics 110/110 with honours Plasma physics Study of the evolution of magnetic field profiles in a toroidal plasma. The aim of the work was to build a model in order to simulate the time evolution of magnetic field profiles in reversed field pinch plasmas, successfully reproducing experimental quantities. Dates 2001-2005 Final grade 92/110 First level degree in physics Plasma physics Fine structure study of H-like carbon transitions n=8-n=7 and n=7-n=6 and influence to the ion temperature measurements in RFX-mod plasma. Prof. Piero Martin The aim of the work was to evaluate the spectral distortion caused by the fine-structure to line emission for charge-exchange and to estimate this effect on the ion temperature measurements in the RFX-mod experiment. Dates 1996-2001 Diploma of secondary school focusing on sciences
Liceo Scientifico G.B. Quadri Final grade 92/100 Sciences Language skills Italian: mother tongue English: full professional proficiency French: elementary proficiency Computer skills Competent with most of Microsoft Windows programs and Latex Good knowledge of IDL in Linux Little knowledge of Fortran 95 License Italian and international driving licence B s and awards Dates January 2012 Performance bonus 2011 for employees of the Consorzio RFX for relevant publications for the scientific area plasma model, theory e data interpretation First author of the paper Alfvén Eigenmodes in the RFX-mod reversed-field pinch plasma, S.Spagnolo et al., Nucl. Fusion 51 083038 (2011). Dates January 2011 Performance bonus 2010 for employees of the Consorzio RFX for relevant publications for the development of diagnostics in the fusion area Coauthor of the paper Flow measurements in the edge region of the RFX-mod experiment, De Masi et al., Contrib. Plasma Phys. 50 824 (2010). Dates 24 th June 2010 Thursdays EPS Phd Poster 2010 (EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin 2010) First author of the poster Alfvén Eigenmodes in the RFX-mod reversed-field pinch plasma, S.Spagnolo et al., P4.162 (2010). Padova, December 22 nd 2015