Marco Breschi graduated with honors in electrical engineering
from the University of Bologna in July 1997. He received his Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering in March 2001 with a study on the
electrodynamics of superconducting magnets at the LHC Division of
CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Since October 2001 he is assistant
professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna. His research activity is related to various aspects of
applied superconductivity and the numerical computation of
electromagnetic fields. He developed multiphysics models for
superconducting wires, cables and magnets, concerning various
aspects of the electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical phenomena
of interest for technical applications. In particular, he has
applied these models to the analysis of superconducting magnets for
particle accelerators and controlled thermonuclear fusion. In 2004
he worked as a visiting scientist at the NHMFL (National High
Magnetic Field Laboratory), Florida, United States. He is an
independent member of the Working Group SULTAN of ITER
(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), an
international group comprising one representative from each nation
participating to the project (China, European Union, United
States, India, Japan, Russian Federation, South Korea) and three
independent members (from CERN, University of Twente and University
of Bologna). The aim of the group is the performance analysis of
the superconducting cables for the ITER Project. Since 2007, he
coordinated several research projects concerning the analysis of
the electrodynamic, electrothermal, and eletromechanical phenomena
occurring in the superconducting cables and magnets for the ITER
Project. He served the Scientific Community as an Associate Editor
for the Journal IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity and
as a member of the Scientific Program Committee of the
International Conference on Magnet Technology (MT22, Marseille,
France, 2011, and MT23, Boston, USA, 2013). He is the Chairman of
the International Organizing Committee of the CHATS-AS Workshop,
concerning numerical computation of superconducting cables and
magnets. He is member of the International Organizing Committee of
the Workshop ‘Magnetic and Superconductive Materials' in the frame
of the International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering and
member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electromagnetic
Analysis and Applications (JEMAA).
