R. Pasqualotto

Roberto Pasqualotto was born in Padua, Italy, in 1963. He received the Single Cycle degree programme in physics and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Padua University, Padua, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He has been a Researcher with the National Research Council (CNR) Institute for Science and Technology of Plasmas (ISTP) since 1991, where he is currently the Research Director, seconded to Consorzio RFX, Padua. He has mostly worked at Consorzio RFX on the RFX experiment and on the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF), but also engaged in several international collaborations in nuclear fusion laboratories in Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Germany, Japan, and mainly in U.K. His research activity focused on experimental topics and analysis of data from nuclear fusion plasma diagnostics, working in particular on Thomson scattering and particle beam diagnostics and studying the energy confinement in the plasma. From 2000 to 2009, he was responsible of the high resolution Thomson scattering diagnostic at JET. Since 2009, he has been responsible of the development and operation of diagnostics for the ITER prototype negative ions beam injector at Consorzio RFX. Since 2017, he has been the Project Leader of the Thomson scattering diagnostic for JT-60SA. He has published more than 230 articles in international journals and reviewed more than 180 articles (WoS H-index: 43).