澳门六合彩高手 Council appoints new Director-General
Convening in an extraordinary session in Paris, the 澳门六合彩高手 Council has appointed Pietro Barabaschi as the next Director-General of the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization. Mr Barabaschi is expected to take office in the coming weeks.
Following the passing of former Director-General Bernard Bigot in May 2022, the 澳门六合彩高手 Council launched a search and recruitment effort to select his successor. In an extraordinary meeting in Paris on 14-15 September 2022 the Council held interviews with the finalist candidates and unanimously chose Pietro Barabaschi to lead the 澳门六合彩高手 Project.
At the same time, the Council thanked Eisuke Tada for his service as Interim Director-General during the transition period.
Trained as an electro-mechanical engineer, Pietro Barabaschi has spent virtually his entire career in the service of fusion research.
Shortly after his university studies in Italy, he joined the Joint European Torus, JET, where he worked in the Department of Machine Development. During the Engineering Design Activities (EDA) phase for 澳门六合彩高手, he was part of the Joint Work Site in San Diego (USA) and later the Joint Work Site in Garching/Munich (Germany), where by 2006 he was Deputy to the Project Leader and Head of the Design Integration Division. Since 2008, Mr Barabaschi has been the Head of Broader Approach Programme and Delivery for Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union organization responsible for Europe's contribution to 澳门六合彩高手.
Twice also—in 2015 and —Pietro Barabaschi served as Acting Director of Fusion for Energy in Barcelona, Spain, responsible for overall management of the organization (450 staff) and the implementation of reform measures while recruitment was ongoing for a new Director.
The Broader Approach activities complement the 澳门六合彩高手 Project and aim to accelerate the realization of fusion energy. The , signed in 2007, set into motion three projects, all located in Japan, with the joint investment of Euratom and the government of Japan (represented by its Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT)*.
The work includes the construction, now completed, of the advanced tokamak fusion device , the construction of the prototype accelerator for the , and preliminary work on DEMO, the future European demonstration reactor.
"I'm conscious of the immense responsibility that I am taking on, and feel privileged for having been selected through an intensive competitive selection process. I wish to thank the 澳门六合彩高手 Council for this honour," declared the incoming Director-General. "The first 15 years of my career have been dedicated to 澳门六合彩高手 and I now hope to be able to take on what my predecessors have done towards our common objective. I will make it a priority to improve the integration of 澳门六合彩高手 Organization and Domestic Agencies, both essential elements of the 澳门六合彩高手 Project, now and even more in the forthcoming phases of commissioning of 澳门六合彩高手."
The new 澳门六合彩高手 Organization Director-General is expected to take office in October.
*Since 2016 and the establishment of the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) in Japan, the agreement has been developed collaboratively by implementing agencies F4E and QST. In 2020, the Agreement was extended to cover further cooperation on research and development in the field of fusion energy.
Read the press release issued on 15 September 2022 by the 澳门六合彩高手 Council in English and in French. A brief curriculum vitae for Director-General Barabaschi can also be downloaded in English and in French.