Nicolò Foppiani
Integrated Stellarator Design Lead
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolò Foppiani is an integrated stellarator design lead and physicist with a decade of experience applying numerical methods and simulation-first approaches to fusion reactor design and particle physics research. Currently leading a team at Proxima Fusion to design Alpha, a net-energy-gain stellarator demonstrator, he bridges high-level reactor architecture with subsystem engineering and plasma science. Trained at Harvard (PhD) and Università di Pisa, he has a strong track record in data analysis, ML-driven reconstruction methods, and collaborative experiments like MicroBooNE and SBND, with multiple first-author publications and conference awards. Passionate about tooling and AI, he combines deep analytical skills with outreach and mentorship, advocating for youth involvement in science policy. Outside work he pursues mountaineering, climbing, sailing and windsurfing, reflecting a comfort with calculated risk and complex systems both in nature and technology.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Harvard UniversityDiploma di Licenza, Science, Diploma di Licenza, Science at Scuola Normale SuperioreMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Università di Pisa
Italian, English
Github Skills (15)
electron8
file-format6
python4
travis-ci3
image-processing2
numpy2
python-modules2
data-structure2
cpp2
apache-arrow2
data-structures2
parquet2
big-data2
open-source1
pandas-dataframe1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nfoppiani/Top_EW_coupling_FCC-ee
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
nfoppiani/calorimetry_likelihood
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
Calorimetry based particle identiification tools for LArTPC
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
particlelartpc
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