Hello, World. I am Arsene, a researcher in fusion energy and plasma science.

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I will serve as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Hampton University in Virginia, USA. I will be a Principal Investigator (PI) within the HU Fusion group, where we are building STAR_Lite, a university-scale stellarator for fusion research and education.

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Prior to joining Hampton, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at MIT.
At MIT, I was supervised by Nathan Howard and advised by Anne White.
I was part of the MFE-IM group led by Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez, and also a long-term visiting scientist at DIII-D, where I operated the Laser Blow-Off system.

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I received my PhD in Physics from EPFL, advised by Ambrogio Fasoli and Laurie Porte. At EPFL, working at the Swiss Plasma Center, I developed the vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV).

 

Before fusion, I was trained as an energy and nuclear engineer at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, where I was inspired by Piero Ravetto to pursue a career in teaching and academia.

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My main expertise is in plasma microwave diagnostics and heating systems.
I have also developed expertise in turbulence and transport modeling, especially for trace impurity species in magnetically confined plasmas.
I can review work in plasma diagnostics and impurity transport.

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My current research interest is in studying stellarators as fusion power plants, with focus on non-resonant divertor (NRD) stellarator concepts.