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On December 4, 2025, Marco Acosta, a student in the Group of Applied Superconductivity, successfully defended his master’s thesis. Supervised by Prof. Carmine Senatore and co-supervised by Francesco Lonardo, his thesis was titled “Deep Learning-Based Grain Segmentation and Characterization of...

Pablo Cayado, a former member of the Group of Applied Superconductivity as part of a collaborative project between the University of Geneva and Bruker BioSpin on High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for NMR applications, has been awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, one of the most prestigious...

Celia LUCAS, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity with a position funded by Innosuisse, was awarded the Best Student Award at the 2025 Coated Conductor for Applications Workshop (CCA-2025). Her work, titled "Delamination of REBCO Tapes Induced by Electromagnetic Forces: An...

Tommaso BAGNI, a former postdoc in the Group of Applied Superconductivity and now a superconducting magnet engineer at Gauss Fusion, has been awarded the 1st prize at the 2024 Jan Evetts Award. The winners were announced at the ASC 2024 conference.

Prof. Tatsunori OKADA from Tohoku University spent four weeks, from March 4 to 30, 2024, at the University of Geneva with the Group of Applied Superconductivity. During his time at UNIGE, Prof. Okada qualified in our laboratory the high field performance of the HTS conductors that will be used in...

Francesco LONARDO, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity with a position funded by SNF, was one of the recipients of the Best Student Award at the 28th International Magnet Technology Conference (MT-28). The work of Francesco on the “Influence of the heat treatment on the...

Gianmarco BOVONE, Postdoc in the group of Applied Superconductivity, is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Jan Evetts Award at the EUCAS 2023 conference. This award recognizes excellent work published in Superconductivity Science and Technology by early career researchers. Gianmarco received...

Carlota PEREIRA CARLOS, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at UNIGE with a position funded by CERN, is one of the recipients of the 2022 IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity, with her research on the development of high-performance Nb thin film...

Jose Ferradas, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at UNIGE with a position funded by CERN, is one of the six recipients of the 2021 IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity, with his research on the mechanical behavior of Nb3Sn-based accelerator magnets...

Jose Ferradas Troitino, PhD student in the group of Prof. Carmine Senatore with a position funded by CERN, was awarded with the Best Student Paper Price in the category Materials and the Victor Keilin Memorial Award at the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC2020).

“The Horizon 2020 project EuroCirCol, coordinated by CERN, aims to assess the feasibility, reliability and cost effectiveness of key technologies for the next-generation hadron collider. For this project, coordinated by CERN, 16 partners from 9 countries work together to develop innovative...