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Carmine Senatore maps superconductivity technologies for the World Economic Forum

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carmine Senatore is the first UNIGE expert to collaborate with the World Economic Forum on a "transformation map". His mission: to raise the profile of superconducting technologies in economic and political circles.

August 24, 2023 in News, Outreach, People, Research highlights

Carmine Senatore appointed Swiss Delegate to an International Energy Agency’s programme on Superconductors

The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) appointed Prof. Carmine Senatore, UNIGE, as Swiss Delegate to the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP).

July 14, 2020 in News, People

Matteo Alessandrini’s group, Bruker BioSpin and Prof. Carmine Senatore’s group, DQMP awarded financial support by Innosuisse

Matteo Alessandrini's group at Bruker BioSpin and Prof. Senatore’s group at DQMP, University of Geneva have been recently awarded financial support by Innosuisse for a 3 years project. The project will start in September 2020.

June 8, 2020 in News, Research highlights

Plenary talk of Carmine Senatore at the Applied Superconductivity Conference

During the plenary series at Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC 2016), Prof. Carmine Senatore gave a talk entitled "30 Years to High Temperature Superconductivity: Status and Perspectives".

November 14, 2016 in News, Research highlights

EuroCirCol – Interview of Prof. Carmine Senatore

"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.

May 13, 2016 in News, People, Research highlights

Carmine Senatore appointed Professor

Carmine Senatore obtained an SNSF professorship grant with a project focused on the development of superconductors from the fundamental level to the practical implementation. His appointment as Professor at UNIGE started in May 2013.

February 12, 2014 in News, People

What’s so super about superconductivity?

John Letzing, a journalist at the World Economic Forum, recently sat down with Prof. Carmine Senatore to discuss the fascinating realm of superconducting technologies. While the scientific community initially buzzed with excitement over claims of achieving room-temperature superconductivity,...

October 20, 2023 in News, Outreach, Research highlights

A meeting of the International Energy Agency on High Temperature Superconductors at Villa Hardt

The Executive Committee (ExCo) of the International Energy Agency’s Technology Collaboration Program on High Temperature Superconductors (IEA HTS TCP) convened in Geneva, Switzerland for a three-day meeting from Monday, September 18th, to Wednesday, September 20th. The HTS TCP’s mission is to...

September 22, 2023 in News, Research highlights, Special events

Jose Ferradas – 2021 recipient of the IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity

Jose Ferradas, PhD student in the group of Prof. Carmine Senatore 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 during a...

June 28, 2021 in News, People

In the spotlight of ESRF – a new tool to enhance wire performance

Nb3Sn is the superconducting material selected to take the place of Nb-Ti as the next step in accelerator magnet technology. In particular, the development of Nb3Sn-based magnets capable of providing 16 T dipolar fields is an indispensable technological breakthrough needed for the 100 TeV...

May 28, 2021 in News, Research highlights

Record high-field superconductivity in MgB2: new perspectives for magnet technology

The quest for energy-efficient high-field magnets passes through the progress made on practical superconductors. Scientists from the Department of Quantum Matter Physics (UNIGE), the Laboratory of Advanced Technology – LTA (UNIGE, HES-SO Genève), and the Laboratoire des Champs Magnétiques...

November 26, 2020 in News, Research highlights

Jose Ferradas Troitino received the Best Student Paper Price in Materials and the Victor Keilin Memorial Award at ASC2020

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), which is the most important...

November 6, 2020 in News, People

Spotlight of FCC on Applied Superconductivity at DQMP

A spotlight on the activities of the Group of Applied Superconductivity of the DQMP led by Prof. Carmine Senatore was posted on the official website of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study at CERN.

March 28, 2018 in News, Research highlights

Switzerland winds up superconductivity

The unusual electronic properties of some superconducting materials permit lossless and dense electrical currents at very low temperatures, even in high magnetic fields. Conductors made of these materials are thus ideal for winding coils to generate very high magnetic fields, which are essential...

June 8, 2016 in News, Research highlights

EuroCircol project started

While the LHC starts to run at 13 TeV, Europe sows the seeds of a next generation high-energy physics research infrastructure: The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider (EuroCirCol) project started on June 1st, 2015. EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study for a post-LHC research...

June 5, 2015 in News, Research highlights