Ernesto Bosque

Ernesto Bosque is a Research Faculty member at the Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Lab (ASC-NHMFL). Following a B.S. in mechanical engineering from at the Florida State University, he continued at FSU to earn a PhD under Prof. S. Van Sciver at the NHMFL, experimentally investigating heat and mass transfer phenomena subsequent a catastrophic loss of the isolation vacuum around Helium-II systems. Transitioning from cryogenics, he began his superconducting magnet work under U. Trociewitz in the HTS Coils Group, focused on driving Bi-2212 high temperature superconductor technology into magnet technology. His postdoc focused on multiphysics finite element analysis on prototype coil designs to predict their operational performance limits and comparing the models with experimental results, which served as feedback to validate and improve the modeling effort.

As Bi-2212 requires a heat treatment at high temperature and pressure, another focus became a deeper understanding of the heat treatment. He heads operation of a large, high-pressure furnace required for processing the wind-and-react Bi-2212 coils for the coil program at the ASC, as well as for collaborations with industry and the US Magnet Development Program, specifically with LBNL. Over the last few years he has also taken on a Technology Manager role for insulated REBCO efforts within the NHMFL 40T All Superconducting Magnet Project. With over a decade of his career at the lab, he has also served as the Diversity Chair of the NHMFL for several years.