Simone Minucci graduated with honors from the University of Naples “Federico II” with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, discussing a thesis entitled “Double-Fed Induction Motors”. In 2011, he graduated with honors with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples “Federico II,” discussing the thesis entitled “Design and Performance Analysis of Power Supplies in Nuclear Fusion Devices.” In 2015, he obtained the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, having defended a thesis entitled “Three-Dimensional Effects of Magnetic Fields in Tokamak Plasmas”.
From September 2012 to February 2013, he was an active collaborator of the Engineering firm “Macchiaroli & Partners”, where he designed electrical systems in museum and civil/industrial use facilities.
From January 2016 to December 2016, was held a position of post-doctoral researcher in the field of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI), University of Naples “Federico II”. His research activities focused on “Theoretical and Experimental Methods for the Electromagnetic Analysis in Advanced Devices”.
In December 2016 he was awarded of the EUROfusion Engineering Grant (Position 30: Engineer in support of DEMO Electrical Plant System Ref. EEG-2017/30). The research activity was conducted in collaboration with Italian and international laboratories, including RFX Consortium, ITER and PMU Garching. The objective was to analyse the performance of plant electrical systems for advanced nuclear fusion facilities.
From July 2017 to December 2017, was held a position of post-doctoral researcher in the field of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Enterprise (DEIM), University of Tuscia. His research activities focused on the “Optimization of Power Distribution System for Environmental Monitoring Studies”.
From December 2017 to July 2024, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tuscia, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Enterprise (DEIm). His research activities were focused on applied and computational electromagnetics, as well as on the design of power supply and electrical distribution systems for EU-DEMO and for the Italian Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) experimental machine.
From July 2011 to December 2017, he was an active collaborator with the CREATE Consortium (Research Consortium for Energy, Automation, and Technological Applications of Electromagnetics). His research activities focused on various topics, including the study of electromagnetism and its applications to nuclear fusion devices, non-destructive testing, and the design, characterisation, and performance analysis of electrical power systems in nuclear fusion facilities.
Since July 2011, he was Visiting Electrical Engineer and Visiting Researcher at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Culham (UK) several times. During these periods, he was involved in magnetic modeling, control, and design of experimental plasma pulses for the JET experimental fusion machine, as well as the performance analysis of its electrical power systems.
Since June 2013, he was Visiting Electrical Engineer and Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching bei Munchen (DE) several times, where he worked on topics such as reconstruction of the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric plasma boundary and Scrape-Off Layer analysis of axisymmetric plasma configurations. Additionally, he contributed also to the analysis and design of EU-DEMO power supply systems.
From October 2012 to the present, he has been Visiting Electrical Engineer and Visiting Researcher at ENEA C.R. Frascati several times, where he collaborated with the Department of Fusion and Technologies for Nuclear Safety (FSN) on the preliminary design of the FAST tokamak power supply systems, the preliminary design of the DTT tokamak power supply systems and the electrical analysis of the EU-DEMO tokamak. Moreover, he also collaborated with the Department of Fusion and Nuclear Safety Technologies (FSN), Fusion Physics Division (FUPHY), on the performance analysis of the electrical power systems of the FTU tokamak.
Since its establishment in September 2019, he has been an active contributor to DTT S.c.a.r.l., working on the analysis and sizing of power supply systems, and serving as project leader for the poloidal magnet power supply systems project.
Since July 2024, he has been Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Engineering and Science of Universitas Mercatorum.
Since May 2025 he has been co-founder and Administrator of the innovatiove start-up Magnetic Future s.r.l.
His research activity is focused on both applied and methodological topics; these include the study of electromagnetic fields (with particular reference to numerical calculation of quasi-stationary magnetic fields applied to controlled thermonuclear fusion, and electromagnetic techniques for non-destructive testing of materials), numerical modelling of complex electromagnetic systems and analysis of power supply systems, electromagnetic applications of bioengineering, and innovative power supply systems for high-temperature superconducting magnets.