Amalia Ballarino | |
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Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Turin |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | CERN |
Thesis | Discendenti di corrente realizzati con materiale superconduttore ad alta temperatura critica per l’alimentazione dei magneti del Large Hadron Collider (1997) |
Amalia Ballarino is a nuclear and superconductor scientist. She currently serves as leader of CERN’s magnets, superconductors, and cryostats group. [1] [2]
She earned her master's degree and doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, running her doctorate work at CERN, where she has worked since 1997. [3]
She participated in the designing of the Large Hadron Collider between 1998 and 2008. In 2006, she was named Superconductor Industry Person of the Year by Superconductor Week. [4] In 2010, she was named head of CERN’s superconductors group. She was a plenary speaker at EUCAS 2019 in Glasgow. [5] She was elected onto the board of directors for the Applied Superconductivity Conference in 2012. [6] She is a member of Technical Committee TC 90 of the International Electrotechnical Commission, in the tensile test and electro-mechanical properties of composite superconductors working group. [7]
She has led the design of the electrical transmission lines for the High Luminosity LHC Project, scheduled to come online in 2027, basing it off of superconducting MgB2 electrical transfers. [8] [9] In June 2020, the line broke a world record for electrical intensity, transporting 54 000 amperes across a distance of 60 metres. [10] Her team had previously set a world record of 20 000 amperes in 2014, [11] and patented a method for manufacturer high temperature superconducting tape. [12]
In July 2021, she was awarded the James Wong Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [13]
Amalia Ballarino | |
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Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Turin |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | CERN |
Thesis | Discendenti di corrente realizzati con materiale superconduttore ad alta temperatura critica per l’alimentazione dei magneti del Large Hadron Collider (1997) |
Amalia Ballarino is a nuclear and superconductor scientist. She currently serves as leader of CERN’s magnets, superconductors, and cryostats group. [1] [2]
She earned her master's degree and doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, running her doctorate work at CERN, where she has worked since 1997. [3]
She participated in the designing of the Large Hadron Collider between 1998 and 2008. In 2006, she was named Superconductor Industry Person of the Year by Superconductor Week. [4] In 2010, she was named head of CERN’s superconductors group. She was a plenary speaker at EUCAS 2019 in Glasgow. [5] She was elected onto the board of directors for the Applied Superconductivity Conference in 2012. [6] She is a member of Technical Committee TC 90 of the International Electrotechnical Commission, in the tensile test and electro-mechanical properties of composite superconductors working group. [7]
She has led the design of the electrical transmission lines for the High Luminosity LHC Project, scheduled to come online in 2027, basing it off of superconducting MgB2 electrical transfers. [8] [9] In June 2020, the line broke a world record for electrical intensity, transporting 54 000 amperes across a distance of 60 metres. [10] Her team had previously set a world record of 20 000 amperes in 2014, [11] and patented a method for manufacturer high temperature superconducting tape. [12]
In July 2021, she was awarded the James Wong Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [13]