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Pietro Barabaschi is a Director-General of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). ITER is the world's largest fusion experiment. Thirty-five nations are collaborating to build and operate the ITER Tokamak, the most complex machine ever
constructed by humans.
Pietro Barabaschi has been working since 2009 in Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union organisation responsible for Europe’s contribution to ITER, and the Broader Approach international fusion projects, as Head of the Broader Approach Programme and Delivery. He has been managing the Department overviewing the European contributions to three projects, resulting from the agreement between Euratom and Japan: JT-60SA (the biggest tokamak device until ITER begins operations), IFMIF/EVEDA (a large linear accelerator) and IFERC (an R&D centre set up jointly by the two parties). During 2015, and again in 2022, he was appointed as Acting Director of F4E being responsible for the overall management of the organisation, the project management infrastructure, and the implementation of reform measures.
Before joining F4E, and until early 2006, he was deputy to the Project Leader and Head of the Design Integration Division of the ITER International Team at the Munich Joint Work Site. Soon after his university studies in Electrical Engineering he joined the JET Project, Culham, UK, where he worked in the Department of Machine Development.
