Massimo Zucchetti

Full Professor
Department of Energy (DENERG)

Profile

Research interests

Climate change
Controlled thermonuclear fusion
Energy security
Fusion power plants
Generation iv nuclear fission reactors
Nuclear energy and engineering
Nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear safety
Radioactive wastes
Radioactivity

Biography

Massimo ZUCCHETTI (Torino, Italy, 1961), is a full Professor since 2000 at the Polytechnical University of Engineering in Torino (www.polito.it, zucchetti@polito.it), department of Energy. He is currently teaching Radiation Protection, Nuclear Technology, History of Energy, Nuclear Power Plants)

Scientific branch

ING-IND/19 - NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Research topics

  • Nuclear waste managements
  • Safety of fusion reactors

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_4 - Computational engineering
PE10_21 - Earth system modelling and interactions
PE8_6 - Energy processes engineering
PE8_11 - Environmental engineering, e.g. sustainable design, waste and water treatment, recycling, regeneration or recovery of compounds, carbon capture & storage
PE2_7 - Nuclear and particle astrophysics
PE2_15 - Thermodynamics

SDG

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Fellowships

Editorial boards

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOSYSTEMS AND ECOLOGY SCIENCE (2011-), Director
  • JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION & SCIENCE (2008-), Director
  • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (2007-), Director
  • JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ECOLOGY (2005-), Director

Conferences

  • 6th International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • MESAEP International Conference 2015, Program chair
  • 5th International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • 4th International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • MESAEP International Conference 2013, Program chair
  • 3rd International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • 2nd International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • MESAEP International Conference 2011, Program chair
  • 1st International Conference of Ecosystems,Tirana, Albania, Program chair
  • MESAEP International Conference 2009, Program chair
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Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Professore a contratto, presso University of California Los Angeles - UCLA (15/9/2012-1/4/2013)
  • Ricercatore, presso Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1/9/2005-31/12/2026)

Other titles

  • Nomination for 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics (2015-)

Research networks

Non-commercial collaboration agreements

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • ENERGETICA, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2016/2017 (33. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • ENERGETICA, 2015/2016 (32. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Research

Research groups

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Supervised PhD students

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Publications

PoliTO co-authors

Last years publications

Publications by type

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