Giacomo Grasso

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Bologna, ITALY. Researcher in nuclear reactor physics, reactor core design and fuel cycle scenario studies.

Department of Energy and Nuclear Engineering and of Environmental Control (DIENCA) of the "Alma Mater Studiorum" - University of Bologna, ITALY. Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering with a dissertation on "Neutronics Analysis for Fast Neutronic Spectrum Nuclear Systems and Scenario Studies for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles", in collaboration with the Italian National Agency for the New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA).

Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE. Participation to the "2nd ERANOS users' Workshop".

CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), ITALY. Participation to the "7th Summer School of Scientific Visualization and 3D Interactive Graphics".

CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), ITALY. Participation to the "2nd Specialized School of Parallel Computing".

CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), ITALY. Participation to the "15th Summer School of Parallel Computing".

Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna, ITALY. M.S. degree with honours in Nuclear Engineering. Advisor: prof. Marco Sumini. Dissertation: Application of Particle In Cell methods to the modeling of the plasma dynamics in Plasma Focus devices.

'Liceo' specializing in classical and scientific studies "Ariosto-Spallanzani", Reggio Emilia, ITALY. Scientific school-leaving certificate with honours.

ENEA, Bologna, ITALY. Leader of Work Package 2 "Core Design" within the LEADER project.

ENEA, Bologna, ITALY. Responsible of core design activities within the agreement between ENEA and the Italian Ministery for Economic Development.

Alma Mater Foundation, Bologna, ITALY. Occasional independent work contract for the "Study of beam transport from the optic accelerator to linac".

SIET S.p.a., Piacenza, ITALY. Occasional independent work contract for "Studies for the conceptualization and characterization of models and analyses of static and kinetic neutronic parameters for a LFR-type nuclear reactor and its demonstrators".

Alma Mater S.r.l., Bologna, ITALY. Occasional independent work contract for the "Finalization of a parallel PIC-MCC code for simulating the process of formation of the plasma sheath in a Plasma Focus device".

Alma Mater S.r.l., Bologna, ITALY. Occasional independent work contract for the "Set up of codes for simulating breakdown processes by Particle In Cell and Monte Carlo techniques".

CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), ITALY. Stage for the study and the application of parallelization techniques for scientific code.

DIENCA, Bologna, ITALY. Occasional independent work contract for the "Execution of simulation calculations of plasmas in Plasma Focus machines" by means of the proprietary code es-cPIF.

Contract professor at the University of Bologna for a 20 hours cycle of lessons regarding "Deterministic and Monte Carlo codes applied to neutronics", within the "Design and Management of Advanced Nuclear Systems" Master course.

"Alma Mater Studiorum" - University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY. Contract professor within the "Neutronics and Plasmas" teaching of the "Energy engineering" MS course.

"Alma Mater Studiorum" - University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY. Contract professor within the "Radioprotection" teaching of the "Energy engineering" MS course.

"Alma Mater Studiorum" - University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY. Contract professor within the "Neutronics and Plasmas" teaching of the "Energy engineering" MS course.

Contract professor at the University of Bologna for a 20 hours cycle of lessons regarding "Deterministic and Monte Carlo codes applied to neutronics", within the "Design and Management of Advanced Nuclear Systems" Master course.

Invited speaker at ENEA for the seminary "Neutronic Design of a Lead Fast Reactor: general guidelines, aims and constraints", within the VELLA (Virtual European Lead LAboratory) school, a Euratom FP6 project.

Contract professor at the University of Bologna for a 20 hours cycle of lessons regarding "Deterministic and Monte Carlo codes applied to neutronics", within the "Design and Management of Advanced Nuclear Systems" Master course.

Invited speaker at CINECA for the seminary "Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement: an introduction to SAMRAI", within the "4th Specialized School of Parallel Computing".

Design, preparation and management of the laboratory exibition "A Tempo di Fisica" ("In Physics Time") about the concept of time and its measurement, within the II edition of the "In forma di scienza" ("Science-shaped") festival, organized by the Scandiano Commune, the "L. Spallanzani" Studies Center, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the "Levi Montalcini" Association at the "Rocca del Boiardo", in Scandiano (RE).

Presentation of the didactic project "The small laboratory: in physics time", articulated into five laboratories one-hour each long, to 5 second classes of the elementary schools of the didactic circle of Scandiano (RE).

Invited speaker at CINECA for the seminary "Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement: an introduction to SAMRAI", within the "3rd Specialized School of Parallel Computing".

Design, preparation and management of the laboratory exhibition "Sei pezzi facili" ("Six easy pieces") about optics and light properties, within the I edition of the "In forma di scienza" ("Science-shaped") festival, organized by the Scandiano Commune, the "L. Spallanzani" Studies Center, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the "Levi Montalcini" Association at the "Rocca del Boiardo", in Scandiano (RE).

Presentation of the didactic project "The small laboratory: the physics of light", articulated into five experiences one-hour each long, to 10 first and second classes of the elementary schools of the didactic cycle of Correggio (RE).

Training activity for the project "Physics at Mirabilandia, a classroom without walls" held at the Mirabilandia (RA, ITALY) funfair:

• on behalf of the Association for the Didactics with the Technologies (ADT) (May 30th - June 7th, 2005);
• on behalf of "Parco della Standiana Srl" (April 8th - June 30th, 2006).