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Biography
Andrea Di Vita is a physicist with 20+ years of expertise in nuclear fusion, thermodynamics, and thermoacoustics. Since graduating cum laude in plasma physics with a dissertation on radiofrequency heating of tokamak plasmas, he has been in the energy industry for decades, as well as serving as a visiting scientist at ENEA, JET, and Università
di Genova. He has worked on both the time-dependent energy balances of IGNITOR and SPARC tokamaks, the non-inductive current drive in the JET tokamak, the energy balance and saturation process of the neutron yield in a dense plasma focus, and the collisions between plasmoids in the heliosphere. He has also worked on the electrical
conductivity of flames, the simulation of radiative arcs in high-voltage circuit-breakers, the saturation of thrust in magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters for space propulsion, the onset of thermoacoustic instabilities, and the thermodynamics of relaxation in plasmas and the related variational principles. Dr. Di Vita has authored and co-authored 32 publications on these topics, as well as one handbook on non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
