Paolo Ferracin

Paolo Ferracin (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in nuclear engineering and the Ph.D. degree in energetics, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He joined the CERN Main Magnet and Superconductors Group as a Ph.D. Student to work on the mechanics and magnetics of the main superconducting dipole magnets for the large hadron collider (LHC). In May 2002, he started working with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Superconducting Magnet Program (SMP), as a Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Staff Scientist on the development of Nb3Sn dipoles and quadrupoles for the next generation particle accelerators. In 2011, he rejoined the CERN Magnets, Superconductors and Cryostats Group as a Staff working on Nb3Sn superconducting magnets, and in 2012, he started leading the development of MQXFB, the Nb3Sn low-β quadrupole magnet for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Project. Since February 2020, he has been the SMP Program Deputy with LBNL.