Books By Maurizio Bottoni - Author

Maurizio Bottoni was born in 1941 in Ferrara, Italy. After humanistic studies in Ferrara and basic courses in mathematics and physics at the Ferrara University, he studied nuclear engineering at the University of Bologna where he obtained  a Ph.D in December 1965, with a thesis in neutron physics, which was awarded the RIGHI price of the Bologna University. For about 25 years Dr. Bottoni worked at the former Nuclear Research Centre of Karlsruhe (actually Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany, and at the Argonne National Laboratory of Chicago, Illinois, on fast nuclear reactor safety analysis.  

After the demise of the fast reactor projects, both in Germany and in USA, years followed as visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1996 - 1997) and at the TsinghuaUniversity in Beijing (1999 - 2002). 

The experience gained with the research work in fast breeder reactor theory was collected in a series of monographspresented for the fir