Marco Bugatti, a student in the Energy and Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (STEN) PhD programme at the Politecnico di Milano, has been selected as one of the winners of the prestigious FuseNet Master Thesis Prize 2023, awarded by the European Fusion Education Network. This prize recognises excellence in research in the field of nuclear fusion and is an important recognition of the work carried out by Marco in his Master’s thesis entitled “Experimental Investigation of Thin Tungsten Films as Corrosion Barriers for Liquid Metal Divertor Conceptual Designs“. The thesis was the result of a close collaboration between the Politecnico di Milano and ENEA, the National Agency for New Technologies.
Marco Bugatti’s outstanding contribution was recognised by the jury composed of members of the FuseNet Academic Committee, confirming once again the high level of education and scientific research at the Politecnico di Milano and the importance of collaboration between institutions and academia.