Vincenzo Paolo Loschiavo

Academic appointments

Since 2025, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio. He teaches Electrical Engineering in the undergraduate degree programme in Energy Engineering and Numerical Calculus Laboratory in the master’s degree programme in Energy Engineering.

From 2022 to 2025, he was a fixed-term researcher, Type B (RTD-B), at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio.

From 2019 to 2022, he was a fixed-term researcher, Type A (RTD-A), at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio. He was selected through a national competition for a project on Cultural Heritage Technologies, focused on kinetic energy harvesting using magnetostrictive materials, under the supervision of Prof. D. Davino (SSD ING-IND/31). During this period, he taught Electrical Engineering in the undergraduate degree programme in Energy Engineering and co-supervised several bachelor’s and master’s theses.

In January 2019, he was awarded a teaching contract for Electrical Engineering (SSD ING-IND/31) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI), School of Polytechnic and Basic Sciences, University of Naples Federico II.

From July 2017 to December 2019, he held a EUROfusion Engineering Grant. His research project was entitled “Development of an integrated electromagnetic modelling of DEMO plasma equilibria and analysis of plasma Vertical Stability and heat loads”.

From 2013 to 2017, he was a Scientific Consultant at CREATE (Research Consortium for Energy and the Technological Applications of Electromagnetism, Naples), working on plasma physics, plasma equilibrium development, vertical stability analysis, and the analysis of thermal and mechanical loads on walls.

Education

In May 2017, he received a PhD in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II. His doctoral thesis was entitled “Modelling of power exhaust in fusion plasmas”.

In September 2013, he received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, graduating with honours (110/110 cum laude). His thesis, entitled “Analysis of the effects of the scrape-off layer currents in JET tokamak plasmas”, was carried out at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), home to the JET experimental facility.

Research visits and stays at international institutions

Since 2019, he has made several research visits to the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he has worked on modelling multifunctional materials (smart materials) for energy-harvesting applications.

Since 2019, he has also made frequent visits to CERN to work on the SND@HL-LHC and SHiP projects.

In September 2018, he was a Visiting Engineer at the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), where he worked on plasma equilibrium codes and tokamak TCV control during the MST1 experimental campaign.

From April to July 2016, he was a Visiting Engineer at EFDA-CSU, working on the optimization of DEMO magnetic configurations and the transient thermo-hydraulic analysis of DEMO plasma-facing components.

In November 2015, he visited the Swiss Plasma Center, working on plasma equilibrium codes and tokamak TCV control during the MST1 experimental campaign.

From May to October 2015, he was a Visiting Engineer at the ENEA Brasimone Research Centre, where he worked on the thermal fatigue analysis of the DEMO divertor target under transient loads.

In 2014 and 2015, he spent several periods as a Visiting Engineer at EFDA-CSU in Garching, Germany. His work concerned the strike-point sweeping technique in DEMO, the scrape-off layer and power exhaust, as well as equilibrium optimization and calculations for a second X-point scan.

From May to July 2013, he was a Visiting Engineer at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Abingdon, UK, where he carried out research for his master’s thesis.

Research profile and projects

His research interests include computational electromagnetics, energy harvesting, magnet design, thermo-mechanical analyses of tokamak components, optimization, and plasma engineering.

In 2025, together with Prof. D. Davino, he was responsible for a collaboration agreement between the University of Sannio and CERN.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the international SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) collaboration at CERN, contributing to the design of a large magnet for the experiment’s spectrometer and neutrino detector. He is also a member of the international SND@HL-LHC collaboration at CERN.

Since 2017, he has collaborated with the DTT team on the design of the Italian Divertor Tokamak Test facility. His work has included electromagnetic modelling of plasma scenarios; the design and optimization of poloidal-field coils for alternative plasma configurations; and the design and thermo-hydraulic analysis of cooling circuits for in-vessel coils and the ICRH (Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating) antenna.

Since 2014, he has collaborated with the Power Plant Physics and Technology (PPPT) department at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany, within the European EURATOM/EUROfusion research consortium. His contribution to the DEMO fusion reactor project has included electromagnetic simulations of standard and alternative plasma scenarios; optimization of the machine geometry and the positioning of poloidal-field coils to improve passive and active plasma stability; and assessment of alternative strike-point sweeping techniques to reduce thermal loads on plasma-facing components. His work has also involved simulating plasma evolution and analysing the thermo-hydraulic and mechanical behaviour of first-wall materials.

In 2015 and 2018, he took part in the MST1 Task Force of the EUROfusion consortium and in experimental campaigns on the TCV tokamak at the Swiss Plasma Center in Lausanne. His work included the design and implementation of an alternative double-decker magnetic configuration.

Teaching and student supervision

At the University of Sannio, he has regularly taught Electrical Engineering in the undergraduate degree programme in Energy Engineering. Since 2022, he has also taught Numerical Calculus Laboratory in the master’s degree programme in Energy Engineering.

Over the years, he has supervised or co-supervised several bachelor’s and master’s theses.

Editorial and scientific service

He is a member of the Editorial Board of Energies (MDPI; ISSN 1996-1073) and the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (IJAEM; ISSN 1383-5416, online ISSN 1875-8800).

He regularly reviews manuscripts for several journals, including Fusion Engineering and Design, Nuclear Fusion, and journals published by MDPI.

In September 2021, he served as Organizer and Chair of a Special Session at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, held in Bari.

Awards and distinctions

In 2021, he was a finalist for the “Magnetism as Art Showcase” award at INTERMAG 2021 in Lyon, France.

In 2017, he received a EUROfusion Engineering Grant for the project “Development of an integrated electromagnetic modelling of DEMO plasma equilibria and analysis of plasma Vertical Stability and heat loads”. The research focused on electromagnetic plasma modelling and control, and on assessing thermal loads on the first wall of the DEMO reactor.

In 2013, he received a scholarship from the Scientific Office of the Italian Embassy in London for a research stay at the EFDA-JET fusion laboratory, based at CCFE in the UK. His work concerned the effects of scrape-off-layer currents in JET tokamak plasmas.

International collaborations

Through his research experience abroad, he has established collaborations with several Italian and international institutions, including CERN, ENEA, and CREATE in Italy; EFDA-CSU in Germany; CCFE in the UK; and EPFL in Switzerland.

Publications and bibliometric indicators

He is co-author of more than 80 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

• Scopus: more than 2,000 citations; h-index 26. Scopus profile.
• Google Scholar: more than 2,700 citations; h-index 27. Google Scholar profile.
• Web of Science: 472 documents; 12,228 citations; h-index 55. The reported h-index is mainly attributable to his participation in international collaborations in the field of fusion. Web of Science profile.
• ORCID: 0000-0001-5757-8274.