Diego Pereira Botelho

Diego Pereira Botelho is a skilled professional in the field of electrical and electronics engineering with extensive experience in computational science and research. Currently serving as a Stellarator computational scientist at Renaissance Fusion since November 2022, Diego previously worked as an R&D Engineer at SES-Europe from 2019 to 2022, and as a Research Fellow at University College Dublin from 2016 to 2018, where significant contributions included investigating Parkinson's disease treatment mechanisms and developing advanced muscle electrical activity models. Diego also gained academic experience as an Assistant Professor and Lab Manager at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina and holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Université Grenoble Alpes, completed in 2015, along with a Master's degree from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.