Nicola Solieri Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Ge, Ch

Geneva, Switzerland

• Staff Member in the SY-STI-TCD Section at CERN.• HL-LHC External Beam Dumps (TDE) Project Manager. Coordination of a team of 40+ multidisciplinary experts to study, design and construct external beam dumps for the HiLumi-LHC upgrade. These devices will be capable of safely absorbing a record-breaking 680 MJ of stored beam energy in just 86 μs.Management of the construction of 2x spare LHC beam dump cores for Run 3 operation.• HiRadMat Upgrade Study - Taskforce 3 Leader… Show more • Staff Member in the SY-STI-TCD Section at CERN.• HL-LHC External Beam Dumps (TDE) Project Manager. Coordination of a team of 40+ multidisciplinary experts to study, design and construct external beam dumps for the HiLumi-LHC upgrade. These devices will be capable of safely absorbing a record-breaking 680 MJ of stored beam energy in just 86 μs.Management of the construction of 2x spare LHC beam dump cores for Run 3 operation.• HiRadMat Upgrade Study - Taskforce 3 Leader. Coordination of a multidisciplinary group to assess the upgrade strategy for beam windows and dump in the HiRadMat facility. Evaluation of a comparative cost-benefit assessment for the different proposals and coordination of the supporting R&D program.• Coordination and execution of the HRMT-RaDIATE and SMAUG experiments for material R&D. pre- and Post-irradiation examination of material samples and prototypes to assess the resistance of different graphitic materials, glassy carbon and Beryllium grades to high-intensity proton beam impacts.• Study, design and cost evaluation for the upgrade several target, collimators and dumps throughout the accelerator complex. Show less

Geneva Area, Svizzera

• Performance assessment and design of several beam-impacted devices throughout the accelerator complex. Tools used include: ANSYS Workbench, Mechanical APDL, CFX, LS-DYNA and Autodyn.• Main fields of R&D activities: high-strain-rate dynamic response of materials and radiation damage to material properties.• Planning, coordination and execution of repairs and dismantling activities on highly-radioactive devices.• Technical officer for 2 complex procurement activities for… Show more • Performance assessment and design of several beam-impacted devices throughout the accelerator complex. Tools used include: ANSYS Workbench, Mechanical APDL, CFX, LS-DYNA and Autodyn.• Main fields of R&D activities: high-strain-rate dynamic response of materials and radiation damage to material properties.• Planning, coordination and execution of repairs and dismantling activities on highly-radioactive devices.• Technical officer for 2 complex procurement activities for dismantling operations on radioactive components. Writing of the technical specifications, assessment of the industrial landscape, contract award and management of the activities.• Coordination of research projects for material R&D with several external institutions (among which NTNU, Fermilab, BNL, PNNL and the members of the RaDIATE collaboration). Show less

Svizzera

• Dynamic response characterization of targets exposed to high-intensity proton beams using ANSYS Autodyn• Support in the design, assembly and execution of the HRMT-42 and HRMT-Multipurpose experiments.

Chicago, Stati Uniti

- Design, thermal and structural analysis of the magnetic horn support modules installed in the DUNE experiment

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 110/110

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 110/110