Ambrogio FasoliAmbrogio FASOLI was born on November 10, 1964, in Milano, Italy. After a classical high school diploma (Maturità Classica) and graduation from the University of Milano, with the degree of Dottore in Fisica, he obtained his Phd at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) with a thesis on chaos in wave-particle interactions in plasmas, which was awarded the Best EPFL Thesis prize, in 1993. He then moved to the JET Joint Undertaking, the largest worlds fusion device, near Oxford, UK, to investigate Alfvén waves and burning plasma physics. In 1995-1996 he took a sabbatical leave, visiting several Universities and Research Institutes in Europe and in the USA, including three months at General Atomics in San Diego. In 1996-1997, during a second period at JET, he participated in the fusion power worlds record experiments in Deuterium-Tritium plasmas at JET. In 1997 he was nominated Assistant Professor in MIT Physics Department, where he led a basic plasma physics group and the international collaboration between MIT and JET. In 2001 Ambrogio FASOLI was nominated Assistant Professor of Physics at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Professeur Boursier of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He became member of CRPP Directorate and took the leadership of CRPP basic plasma physics group and of the TCV tokamak, one of the major fusion experiments worldwide. At European level he was scientific coordinator for JET experiments, spokesperson for multi-machine experiments in the frame of International Tokamak Physics Activities, and Project Leader for a JET Enhancement project. In 2005 he became Associate Professor of Physics with tenure at EPFL, then member of EFDA Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and of the Steering Committee of the Association EURATOM-Swiss Confederation. From 2006 he was also Deputy Director, then from 2007 Executive Director of CRPP and from 2008 Full Professor of Physics at EPFL. For a number of years he was the Chair of the EPFL Physics Strategic Committee and a member of the Directorate of the EPFL School of Sciences. Since the summer of 2014 Professor FASOLI was the sole Director of CRPP. He now represents Switzerland in the EUROfusion General Assembly and Bureau, and in the Governing Board for Fusion for Energy. He is member of the EUROfusion DEMO project Board, of the Scientific Board of the Helmotz Virtual Institute on Advanced Microwave Diagnostics, of the European Delegation for the Cooperation between Euratom and the Government of India in Fusion Energy Research, of the European Consortium for the development of the ITER gyratron (EGYC), and participates to numerous international review panels. He chairs the FuseNet Academic Council, the International Advisory Panel for the Laboratory of Excellence Plas@Par in the Sorbonne Universities, the European Consortium for the construction of the ITER microwave Upper Launcher (ECHUL), and the Promotion Committee of the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences. He is one the three European representatives in the International Tokamak Physics Activities Coordinating Committee, advising ITER, and the Editor-in-Chief of the IAEA journal Nuclear Fusion. Since January 2019, Ambrogio Fasoli is the Chair of the General Assembly, i.e. the president of EUROfusion, the European Consortium for Development of Fusion Energy. Professor FASOLI is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and since 2001 a Visiting Professor at MIT Physics Department. He is the Director of the Swiss Plasma Center.
Michele CeriottiMichele Ceriotti received his Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zürich in 2010. He spent three years in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. Since 2013 he leads the laboratory for Computational Science and Modeling in the Institute of Materials at EPFL. His research revolves around the atomic-scale modelling of materials, based on the sampling of quantum and thermal fluctuations and on the use of machine learning to predict and rationalize structure-property relations. He has been awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis in 2010, the Volker Heine Young Investigator Award in 2013, an ERC Starting Grant in 2016, and the IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize in 2018.
Dieter LandoltEducation and employment history
Dieter Landolt got his Diploma in Chemical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1965. From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. In 1968 he joined the faculty of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as Assistant Professor. In 1972 he became Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he headed the Laboratory of Metallurgical Chemistry (Laboratoire de métallurgie chimique) until his retirement in 2003. He is Professor emeritus (professeur honoraire) at EPFL.
Research
The main research interests of Dieter Landolt inculde fundamental aspects of corrosion and protection of metals, surface treatment and microfabrication by electrochemical processes of metal deposition and dissolution, surface analysis by spectrocopic methods and chemical effects in friction and wear (tribocorrosion). He directed some forty Ph.D. theses in these fields and and is the author or co-author of more than three hudered scientific publications and book chapters as well as of a text book on corrosion and surface chemsitry of metals.
Honors and awards
EFC medal of the European Federation of Corrosion 2005; Honorary member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) 2005; Castner Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry London 2002; AESF Scientific Achievement Award of the American Electroplater and Surface Finishers Society 2001; Cavallaro Medal of the European Federation of Corrosion 2000; Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) 1999; Grande médaille du CEFRACOR (Centre français de l'anticorrosion) 1996; Research Award of the Electrodeposition Division of The Electrochemical Society (ECS)1995.
International and national responsibilities:
Chairman of International Corrosion Council (ICC) 1999 2002; President of International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) 1987-88; General Secretary of ISE 1975-80; Chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) of the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) 1989-96, Chairman of the Working Party "Corrosion Education" of EFC, 1992-1996; Titular member of Commission on Electrochemistry of IUPAC 1984-91; Chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee of Max Planck Institute für Eisenforschung Düsseldorf 2000-2005; Head of Swiss Priority Program on Materials Research 1996-2000; Chairman of Materials Department of EPFL 1975-76 and 1988-89; Chairman of Committee of Department Chairmen (CCD) of EPFL 1993-96; member of Advisory Committee of Swiss Federal Institute of Materials Research (EMPA) 1991-2002; Board Member of Swiss Society of Surface Treatment 1982-88, member of group of experts for PNR 24: Chemistry and physics of surfaces 1988-95
