My Curriculum Vitae

(LAST UPDATE: 07/12/2009)

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Office address:
Department of Information Engineering
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905
41100 Modena, ITALY
Tel. +39 059 2056326
Fax. +39 059 2056129
Mobile: +39 335 7181823
E-mail: alessia.polemi@unimore.it
web-site: http://www.dii.unimore.it/polemi

EDUCATION

• July 1999: M.S. (cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Siena. Thesis dissertation: "Green’s Functions for phased arrays of dipoles on dielectric slab" (supervisors: Prof. S. Maci, Prof. R. Tiberio, Prof. A. Toccafondi).
  
  
• January 2000: national qualification for engineers at the University of Florence.
  
  
• March 2003: PhD in Information Engineering (curriculum: electromagnetic waves) at the University of Siena. Thesis dissertation: "Frequency Domain Green's Function for Periodic Large Phased Arrays in Multilayered Dielectric Regions " (tutor: Prof. R. Tiberio).
  
  
• January 2003-October 2006: post-doc researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena
  
  

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

• November 2006: Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (scientific area: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS)

• November 2009: tenure track as Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (scientific area: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS)

• January 2010: Research Scientist at Drexel University, Department of Chemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• High frequency scattering theories
  
• Asymptotics electromagnetic methods
  
• Numerical electromagnetic methods
  
• Periodic structures
  
• Bandgap structures
  
• Antenna design
  
• Antenna miniaturization
  
• Wideband and ultrawideband antennas
  
• RFID systems
  
• Printed devices at microwave frequencies
  
• New emerging waveguides
  
• Metamaterials
  
• Plasmon polaritons at optical frequency
  
• Plasmonic channels
  
• Molecule-nanoparticle interaction
  
• Nanoantennas
  

Further details in Research Activity section.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• 1999, appointed to the profession of Engineer
  
  
• 2000, Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  
  
• September 2003-December 2005, president of the academic spin-off company WaveComm srl.
  
  
• 2006, Italian Student Adviser for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  
  

SOFTWARE SKILLS AND COMPETENCE

• Operating systems MS Windows 98/NT/2k/XP/Vista
  
• MS Office
  
• Maltlab
  
• CorelDraw
  
• Latex
  
• Fortran
  
• C
  
• Mathematica
  
• Electromagnetic simulation software
  
  • Ansoft Designer
    
  • HFSS
    
  • CST Microwave Studio
    
  • Grasp
    
  • FEKO
    
  • MicroWave Office
    
  • Wipl-d
    
    

TEACHING ACTIVITY

• 1999/2000, seminars in the Electromagnetic Field course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena
  
• 2000/2001, seminars in the Microwave course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena
  
• 2001/2002, seminars in the Antennas course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena
  
• 2002/2003, course of Design of Microwave Circuits at the School of Engineering of University of Siena
  
• 2003, course of Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics at the Master on Microwave Systems on Technologies for Telecommunications, Messina (Italy)
  
• 2003/2004 and 2004/2005, course of Electromagnetic Modelling at the School of Engineering of University of Siena
  
• 2005, seminars into the school “High Frequency Methods and Travelling Wave Antennas”, European School of Antennas (ACE – Antenna Centre of Excellence), at University of Siena, about:
  
  • Green’s function of the dielectric slab
    
  • Scattering from a perfectly conducting half-plane
    
    
• Since 2005:
  
  • course of Radio Propagation class at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    
  • assisting in the Electromagnetic Field class at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    
  • Microwave Lab class at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    
    

Visit the page Teaching Activity for Teaching Statement .

SUPERVISED STUDENTS

• 2001 M.S. "Giacomo Donzelli", GENERALIZED PENCIL OF FUNCTION TECHNIQUE FOR MULTILAYERED PRINTED STRUCTURES
  
• 2002 M.S. "Alberto Nencini", ASYMPTOTIC GREEN'S FUNCTION FOR A SECTORAL ARRAY OF ELEMENTARY SOURCES ON A DIELECTRIC SLAB
  
• 2005 M.S. "Giorgio Carluccio", EXTENSION OF THE INCREMENTAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION TO COMPLEX SOURCES
  
• 2006 M.S. "Michele Gravina", ANTENNA FOR BIOMEDICAL RFID APPLICATION
  
• 2006 M.S. "Daniele Ciccarese", WIMAX: MAN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
  
• 2007 M.S. "Guido Santamaria", ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSITIONS BETWEEN COAXIAL CABLE AND MICROSTRIP
  
• 2007 M.S. "Lorenzo Santunione", DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A PRINTED DIPOLE ANTENNA WITH UNBALNCED FEEDING
  
• 2007 Laurea Degree. "Enrico Busi", ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF A PLANAR ANTENNA FOR UWB APPLICATIONS
  
• 2008 M.S. "Marcello di Clemente", SAW SENSORS
  
• 2008 Laurea Degree. "Gagliardi Giuseppina", WIDE BAND PATCH ANTENNAS DESIGN
  
• 2008 M.S. "Javier Molejón Asenjo", DESIGN OF A DUAL BAND ANTENNA FOR RFID APPLICATIONS IN THE UHF BAND
  
• 2009 M.S. "Luca Morandini", DEVICES FOR THE MONITORING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCES DURING TIMING IN SPORT RACES, THROUGHOUT RFID SYSTEMS
  
• 2009 M.S. "Erio Gandini", ANALYSIS OF BACKSCATTERING FROM PLANAR FRESNEL LENSES
  
  

ATTENDED SPECIALIZED PHD COURSES

• 2000, at University of Siena
  
  • Functional analysis elements
    
  • Interpolation and approximation of curves and surfaces
    
  • Optimization Methods
    
  • Wavelets
    
  • Object Oriented Programming
    
• 2002, at Chalmers University, Gotheborg, Sweden
  
  • Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard surfaces and their Use in Antenna Analysis and Design
    
• 2002, at University of Ancona, PhD School
  
  • Ground Penetrating Radar
    
• 2005, at Denmark Technical University - Ticra, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence)
  
  • Reflector antennas: analysis and design
    
• 2005, at Politecnico of Turin, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence)
  
  • Computational EM for antenna analysis
    
• 2005, at University of Siena, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence)
  
  • High Frequency Methods and Travelling Wave Antennas
    
• 2006, at University of Dubrovnik, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence)
  
  • Advanced Mathematics for Antenna Analysis
    
    

NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

• 2000-2002. PAR (Piano d’Ateneo per la Ricerca) “Antenna installation for wireless communication systems”
  
• 2000-2002. ASI (Italian Space Agency): “Reflectarrays for satellite applications”
  
• 2003-2005. PRIN (Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale) “Electromagnetic models for analysis of passive reflectarrays”
  
• 2005-2007. PRIN (Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale) “Microwave Radiometer for fire monitoring”
  
  

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

• 2004-2005. ACE Antenna Centre of Excellence, V Framework Program, WP. 1.1.1 Integration, WP. 3.1.1 European School of Antennas
  
• 2005-2006. ACE Antennas Centre of Excellence, VI Framework Program, WP. 3.1.1 European School of Antennas
  
• 2005-2007. EAML European Antenna Modeling Library, contract with ESA-ESTEC n.18802/04/NL/JD, WP. 1.6.1.0 5S Green’s Function for stratified environment
  
• 2009-ongoing. EAML European Antenna Modeling Library, TT&C Coverage in Complex Environments with the European Space Agency (ESA)
  
• 2009-ongoing. EuroStar Project, New production process for medical bags based on RadioFrequency sterilization and ICT
  
  

RESEARCH CONTRACTS

• 2000-2001. Research contract between Department of Information Engineering (University of Siena) - IDS spa, in the framework of the agreement with Italian Navy for "Electromagnetic models for prediction of scattering objects"
  
• 2000-2002. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Siena) - IDS spa, in the framework of the agreement with IDS spa for "Green’s function for multilayered materials"
  
• 2002-2003. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Siena) - IDS spa, in the framework of the agreement with IDS spa for "Incremental Theory of Diffraction for dielectric screens"
  
• 2003-2004. Research contract with Consorzio Etruria ed Innovazione scpa, entitled "Feasibility and design of an automatic identification system on controlled areas based on the standard ISO/IEC 15693"
  
• 2004-2005. Research contract with Consorzio Etruria ed Innovazione scpa, entitled "Electromagnetic scattering from non perfectly conducting half-planes and junctions between planes: UTD and ITD formulation"
  
• 2005-2006. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Siena) - IDS spa, in the framework of the agreement with IDS spa for "Green’s functions for dielectric multilayers; extension to magnetic sources"
  
• 2007-2008. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) -Politecnico di Torino, entitled "Evolution and evolutionary maintenance of European Antenna Modeling Library Components"
  
• 2008. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) –MD-Microdetectors (protected by NDA)
  
  

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