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- Title: Project Manager
- Place of birth: Pisa, Italy
- Date of birth: 1968
- Phone: +39 050 985097 / 985072
- Fax: +39 050 974094
- E-mail: p.rossetti@cpr.it
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| Education |
November 1995 - Appointment to the 3 - year Ph. D.course in "Energetica e propulsione aerospaziale", University of Pisa. Research topic: mechanisms of current emission in magneto - plasma - dynamic (MPD) thrusters.
April - Sept. 1997 - Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics (EPPDy) lab, Mechanical Aerospace Engineering Dept., Princeton University (NJ, USA). Visiting scholar.
July 1995 - Degree in Aeronautic Engineering; Specialization in Aerospace Engineering, University of Pisa. Diploma thesis title: "Current Emission in an MPD Thruster with Cathode Heating". The degree thesis was prepared at Centrospazio in connection with the Aerospace Engineering Dept., University of Pisa. |
| Post graduation work experience |
Sept. 1995 - Research Engineer at Centrospazio. |
| Research interests
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- Electric propulsion
- Current emission and electrodes erosion in electric thrusters
- New-concept electric thrusters prototypes
- Development of ground test facilities for electric thrusters
- Mission analysis
- Plasma physics
- Analytical modeling of electrodes regions
- Plasma diagnostics (spettrometry, electrostatic and magnetic probes)
- Other
- Finite element methods for engineering systems analysis.
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| Languages
| Italian (mother tongue)
English (fluent
French (fluent) |
