Stefano Buono (born 1966) is an Italian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

, and the chief executive officer (CEO) of newcleo, a startup working in the design of small nuclear reactors, which uses waste from other reactors to power itself, he co-founded in 2021.

Biography

Stefano Buono was born in 1966 in

Avellino Avellino () is a city and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. ...

, Italy. He attended high school in Turin, Italy and received his master's degree in physics from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

in 1991.

Career as physicist

Prior to founding Advanced Accelerator Applications in 2002, Buono worked at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development or

CRS4 CRS4, also known as Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia ( Italian: Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna), is an interdisciplinary research center, founded by the Sardinia Autonomous Region on ...

. During his six years within CRS4, he headed a team of engineers working on different international research projects in the field of energy production and nuclear waste transmutation (

Accelerator-Driven System A subcritical reactor is a nuclear fission reactor concept that produces fission without achieving criticality. Instead of sustaining a chain reaction, a subcritical reactor uses additional neutrons from an outside source. There are two general c ...

s). Before joining CRS4 and in parallel to his appointment at CRS4, Buono worked for approximately ten years with physics Nobel laureate

Carlo Rubbia Carlo Rubbia (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. Early life and educatio ...

at CERN, one of the leading research laboratories for

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in the world. During that term, he also actively participated in the development of CERN's Adiabatic Resonance Crossing method.

Advanced Accelerator Applications, Elysia Capital, Planet Smart City, LIFTT

In 2002, Buono founded

Advanced Accelerator Applications Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA or Adacap) is a France-based pharmaceutical group, specialized in the field of nuclear medicine. The group operates in all three segments of nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT and therapy) to diagnose and treat ser ...

(NASDAQ: AAAP), a radiopharmaceutical company that develops, produces and commercializes molecular

nuclear medicine Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactivity, radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, ''radiology done inside out'', ...

, diagnostic and therapeutic products. AAA traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker “AAAP.” The first day of trading was 11 November 2015. On January 22, 2018, Novartis AG acquired AAA. Besides being a founder of Advanced Accelerator Applications, Buono has been its CEO and a member of its board of directors until January 2018. In 2018, he founded Elysia Capital, a company based in London and Turin focused on social impact investments in the area of Sustainable Innovation, Wellbeing, Education, Art, and Culture. He became also Chairman of Planet Smart City, a worldwide leader in integrating smart solutions and social innovation practices in the design and development of large, affordable, smart real estate housing projects. In 2019, Stefano Buono became Chairman of LIFTT, a not-only-profit investment holding focusing on innovation and technology transfer from research institutions.

newcleo

In 2021, he co-founded and incorporated newcleo, a nuclear technology company of which he is CEO. Based in UK, Italy, France and Switzerland, the company raised EUR400m reaching in its first year of operation and it currently employs around 700 employees. Its goal is to bring forward the most sustainable strategy for the nuclear industry of the future, with innovations that increase safety, reduce costs, avoid mining, and dramatically reduce nuclear waste. He is the author of numerous scientific publications.

References

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