Nicola Forgione

Current Position: Full Professor, ING-IND19 (Nuclear Plants)
Email: nicola.forgione@unipi.it
Phone: +39 0502218057
Orcid: 0000-0002-1243-5373

WORK EXPERIENCE
• November 2023 – ongoing: Full Professor, ING-IND19 (Nuclear Plants)
• January 2015 – October 2023: Associate Professor, ING-IND19 (Nuclear Plants)
• December 2007 – December 2014 : Assistant Professor, ING-IND19 (Nuclear Plants)

EDUCATION
• PhD in Nuclear Engineering, University of Pisa
• Master Degree in Nuclear Engineering, University of Pisa

SCIENTIFIC / ACADEMIC POSITIONS - AFFILIATIONS
• President of the MSc Programme in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Pisa, from November 2018 and ongoing
• Member of the Council of the Engineering School of the University of Pisa, from December 2016 and ongoing
• Member of the Council of the of PhD "INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING" of the University of Pisa, from September 2013 and ongoing
• Reviewer for different International Scientific Journals (e.g.: Nuclear Engineering and Design, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Journal of Nuclear Materials, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, etc.)
Teacher of the courses:
• "Nuclear Plants I (6 ECTS)" at the MSc in Nuclear Engineering of the University of Pisa
• "Control of Nuclear Plants (6 ECTS)" at the MSc in Nuclear Engineering of the University of Pisa
• "Principi di Ingegneria Nucleare (6 ECTS)" at the Bachelor in Energy Engineering of the University of Pisa
• "Informatica Applicata (3 ECTS)" at the Bachelor in Mechanics Engineering of the University of Pisa

MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS / ACTIVITIES / LABS
Leadership gained as Research Team Scientific Responsible, for the University of Pisa, in EU Projects:
• EU FP-7 SEARCH (Safe ExploitAtion Related CHemistry for HLM reactors, Grant agreement n.295736 ), from 01/11/2011 to 30/04/2015
• EU HORIZON2020 EUROfusion (as linked third party of ENEA, Grant agreement n. 633053), from 01/01/2014 up to 31/12/2020
• EU HORIZON2020 SESAME (thermal hydraulics Simulations and Experiments for the Safety Assessment of MEtal cooled reactors, Grant agreement n. 654935), from 01/04/2015 up to 31/03/2019
• EU HORIZON2020 MYRTE (MYRRHA Research and Transmutation Endeavour, Grant agreement n. 662186), from 01/04/2015 up to 31/09/2019
• EU HORIZON2020 PATRICIA (Partitioning And Transmuter Research Initiative in a Collaborative Innovation Action, Grant agreement n. 945077), from 01/09/2020 up to now
• EU HORIZON2020 CAMIVVER (Codes And Methods Improvements for VVER comprehensive safety assessment, Grant agreement n. 945081), from 01/09/2020 up to now
Head of the Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation Lab. (NTHS-Lab) at he the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale (DICI) of the University of Pisa

CURRENT RESEARCH FIELDS
In the following, is reported a summary of the main research activities currently ongoing.
• Support to design of experimental facilities and to the execution/analysis of experiments performed at the ENEA of Brasimone, related to fusion and fission reactors. The involved facilities are LIFUS5, NACIE, CIRCE, ecc.
• Thermal hydraulic analyses by the STH codes, SIMMER code and CFD codes of operational and accidental transients for NPPs of Gen IV and nuclear fusion reactors
• Analysis of the phenomena at the base of the interaction between water and liquid metals of interest for FBRs and nuclear fusion reactors
• STH and CFD codes coupling technique development and applications to thermal hydraulic problems of interest for the safety analysis of nuclear reactors
• Thermal hydraulic analyses focused on WCLL breeder unit, performed to analyse the interaction between PbLi and water; Validation and Verification activity of the SIMMER code.
• Actively involved in different EU Projects

PUBLICATIONS
Publications indexed in Scopus can be found at the following link:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603586613
https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp01606