Marco Breschi graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in July 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna in March 2001, with a study on the electrodynamics of superconducting magnets partly developed at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Division of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2004 he worked as a visiting scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, USA, on the experimental study of quench in high temperature superconducting tapes. Since October 2014 he is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Bologna. His research activities are related to magnet technology, applied superconductivity, numerical computation of electromagnetic fields and electrical energy storage. He is the author or co-author of several multiphysics models of LTS and HTS tapes/wires, cables and magnets, developed to investigate electromagnetic, electrothermal, and electromechanical phenomena of interest for technical applications. From 2007 to 2017 he was appointed as independent member of the Working Group SULTAN of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) and coordinated several research projects to investigate current sharing temperature, quench, current distribution and AC losses in the ITER cable in Conduit Conductors. From 2013 to 2015 he served as Chairman of the IOC of the CHATS-AS Workshop on numerical modelling of superconducting devices. Since 2015 he is the Chairman of the IOC of the ‘International School on Modeling for Applied Superconductivity’, that organized four editions of this School. He served as Co-Chair of the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity held in Bologna, Italy, in September 2023. Since October 2023, he is the European Editor of the international journal Cryogenics by Elsevier.
