Susanna Cappello

My research activity has been devoted to theoretical and advanced simulation studies of fusion plasmas, starting from the Reversed Field Pinch configuration, RFP, pursued in the world-class medium-size RFX experiment hosted in Padova. The RFP is an alternative concept, yet the configuration share and synergize on several physics and technological challenges, common to the leading configurations Tokamak and Stellarator. My expertise mainly developed in the macroscopic magnetofluid modeling of fusion plasmas. My scientific activity have produced contributions published in major journals and invited at the relevant conferences and scientific venues. The most relevant ones were the original theoretical results on the helical self-organization processes exhibited afterwards in RFX high current experiments. In addition, the contributions to disclose fundamental aspects of the dynamo effect in the RFP, with impact on the understanding of hybrid tokamak scenarios and astrophysics systems, are to be remarked. This activity provided the main foundations of the Plasma Theory and Advanced Simulations Group of Consorzio RFX, which has been growing during the last twenty years.