Roberto Zanino is Professor of nuclear engineering at Politecnico di Torino’s Department of Energy, where he leads the Nuclear Engineering Modeling group. He is Politecnico’s Rector's Senior Advisor for International University Networks and the European University Alliance Unite!, and PoliTO-Argentina project manager. He is member of the CESAER Board of Directors, of the Unite! Steering Committee and President of the EU-LAC University network Magalhaes.He has served in various management positions at PoliTO, and he currently covers international positions at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Nuclear Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Solar Energy Society. In 2022 he received the Doctorat honoris causa from Universitè Grenoble-Alpes. He was visiting scientist at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik in Garching and at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge US.