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Amalia Ballarino
Alma materPolytechnic University of Turin
Scientific career
InstitutionsCERN
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]

Education and career

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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]

Recognition

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In July 2021, she was awarded the James Wong Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[13]

References

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  1. ^ ""Un maxi cavo dà lo sprint alla fisica e supporta l'industria"". Il Sole 24 ORE. 29 January 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  2. ^ "Un cavo superconduttivo al Cern in cerca dei segreti della materia". lastampa.it. October 30, 2019. Archived from the original on December 21, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  3. ^ "Future Circular Collider Study in discussion with Amalia Ballarino: Developing Superconducting materials". Archived from the original on 2018-07-04. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  4. ^ "Leaders in High Temperature Superconductivity Commercialization Win Superconductor Industry Awards". PRWeb. Archived from the original on 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  5. ^ "Keynote & Plenary17 | Programme | EUCAS 2019 - Glasgow". www.eucas2019.org. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  6. ^ "2012 Board Nominations » ASC 2012". Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ^ "IEC - TC 90/WG 5 Dashboard > Structure: Subcommittee(s) and/or Working Group(s), Membership, Officers, Liaisons". www.iec.ch. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. ^ "High-Luminosity LHC: Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities". phys.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  9. ^ Horejs, Christine-Maria; Pacchioni, Giulia (January 10, 2019). "CERN's next big thing". Nature Reviews Physics. 1 (1): 2–4. Bibcode:2019NatRP...1....2H. doi:10.1038/s42254-018-0012-4. S2CID 116376494. Archived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via www.nature.com.
  10. ^ "Le CERN bat le record d'intensité électrique". Le Matin. June 25, 2020. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via www.lematin.ch.
  11. ^ "CERN: World-record current in a superconductor". phys.org. Archived from the original on 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  12. ^ WO 2018109205A1  Lucio Rossi, Alexander Usoskin, Amalia Ballarino, Luca Bottura: "Method of manufacturing a tape for a continuously transposed conducting cable and cable produced by that method" publication date 21.06.2018
  13. ^ "Leadership in superconductors recognised". CERN Courier. July 8, 2021. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
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