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Costanza Zucca

Editorial Director

Frontiers

Lausanne, Switzerland

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Costanza graduated in Physics from the University of Genoa in 2003. She did her diploma thesis work at the Astronomy and Space Physics department of Uppsala University under the supervision of Prof. Vladimir Pavlenko, focusing on the reduction of transport flows in magnetized plasmas. She obtained her PhD degree in Plasma Physics at the Plasma Physics Research Center at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) in 2009, under the supervision of Dr Olivier Sauter, where her work on Thermonuclear Fusion research included, among other areas, the design of operational scenarios with high-output power for the first prototype of a thermonuclear fusion reactor, the ITER tokamak. During this time, she has also been assistant lecturer in General Physics and authored some 20+ peer-reviewed publications. After (too short...) a sabbatical in South America, Costanza joined Frontiers at the end of 2009 as the main coordinator of the Marketing and Communication office. Since end of 2010, she leads the dynamic Editorial Team at Frontiers, composed of 20 journal managers and assistants, as well as all journal activities of the unique "Frontiers in" journals.

Keywords: plasma current density profile, Electron Internal Transport Barriers, Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating, Electron Cyclotron Current Drive, Plasma Instabilities, Electron Transport, International Tokamak Experimental Reactor, Tokamak à Configuration Variable, Thermonuclear Fusion, Current Distribution, Bootstrap Current, Energy, Plasma heating, Tokamaks, EC waves, sustainability, TCV, ECH, ECCD, ITER, ECRH, e-ITB, Plasma Physics

CONTACT INFORMATION

Professional Address

Frontiers (Publishing)

Lausanne, Switzerland

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

Engineering > Energy > Nuclear Energy

Science > Physics > Physics of Gases and Plasmas

Humanities > Linguistics and Literature > Scholarly Communication

POSITIONS

Editorial Director Dec 2012 - Current: Frontiers (Publishing); Science Park PSE-D; Lausanne, Switzerland

Telephone:

+41 (0)21 693 92 02 (Office)

Editorial Manager Dec 2010 - Nov 2012: Frontiers (Publishing); Lausanne, Switzerland

Telephone:

+41 (0)21 693 92 02 (Office)

Website Lab/Office:

http://frontiersin.org

Senior Marketing Assistant Oct 2009 - Nov 2010: Frontiers (Publishing); Science Park PSE-D; Lausanne, Switzerland

Telephone:

+41 (0)21 693 92 02 (Office)

Website Organization:

http://frontiersin.org

Assistante/Doctorante Apr 2004 - May 2009: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) (Academia); Plasma Physics Research Center; Station 13; Lausanne, Switzerland

Website Department:

https://crppwww.epfl.ch/

Website Organization:

http://www.epfl.ch/

EDUCATION

Docteur ès Sciences Apr 2004 - Apr 2009: Doctorate (Ph.D., M.D., etc.); Science > Physics > Physics of Gases and Plasmas; EPFL (Academia); Plasma Physics Research Center; Station 13; Lausanne, Switzerland

Master of Science Aug 2002 - Dec 2003: Masters (MS, MA, etc); Science > Physics > Physics of Gases and Plasmas; Uppsala University (Academia); Department of Astronomy and Space Physics; Uppsala, Sweden

Bachelor of Science Oct 1999 - Aug 2002: Bachelors; Science > Physics > Applied and Interdisciplinary Physics; Universita degli Studi di Genova (Academia); Genoa, Italy

Scientific Diploma Sep 1994 - Jul 1999: High School; Science > Mathematics > Calculus and Analysis; St Mary Immaculate School (Academia); Genoa, Italy