Simone Gargiulo

Aerospace industry — atomic clocks, GNSS timing, passive hydrogen masers

• • Serve as technical manager for passive hydrogen maser technology, supporting system architecture, performance validation, and cross-functional technical alignment.

• • Solved critical degradation issue in €6–7M/year Galileo PHM program, preventing recurring failures.

• • Initiated open innovation strategy with universities and research institutions, targeting CHF 1M/year reduction in non quality costs.

• • Coordinated engineers and technicians across qualification, laboratory testing, and industrialization phases.

• • Conducted experimental and technical studies on plasma ignition, hydrogen fluid dynamics, and structural behavior.

• • Facilitated partnerships between academia, startups, and corporates to co-develop innovation projects and early-stage technology opportunities.

• • Assessed technological and market potential of emerging solutions, supporting partnership development and innovation roadmaps.

Fundamental physics, nuclear processes, plasma physics, advanced energy concepts

• • Led and managed R&D projects on nuclear excitation mechanisms, laser–plasma interactions, hot dense plasma dynamics, and novel long-duration energy-storage concepts.

• • Built and coordinated international research collaborations, including with the US Army Research Laboratory.

• • Developed theoretical and numerical frameworks extending existing models and proposing new physical processes.

• • Designed and executed experimental and theoretical research under highly constrained technical requirements.

• • Published 15+ peer-reviewed papers, including in Physical Review Letters; authored a Springer Nature book based on my doctoral research [link].

• • Applied Python, MATLAB, COMSOL, Lumerical, Monte Carlo methods, Particle-in-Cell simulations, ultrafast laser tech niques, time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy (TimePix3), and ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (UTEM).