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(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
Home address:
Via San Faustino 123/10
41100 Modena,ITALY

EDUCATION

Alessia Polemi has achieved the master degree on July 1999 (cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Siena, discussing a thesis entitled: "Green’s Functions for phased arrays of dipoles on dielectric slab" (supervisors: Prof. S. Maci, Prof. R. Tiberio, Prof. A. Toccafondi).

In January 2000 has achieved the national qualification for engineers at the University of Florence.

In March 2003 she has received the PhD title in Information Engineering (curriculum: electromagnetic waves) at the University of Siena, defending a thesis entitled "Frequency Domain Green's Function for Periodic Large Phased Arrays in Multilayered Dielectric Regions " (tutor: Prof. R. Tiberio).

Alessia Polemi has been a post-doc researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena from January 2003 to October 2006

In the academic year 2005/2006, she has been appointed to the Radio Propagation class at the School of Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.


PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

Since November 1st, 2006, she is assistant professor at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in the scientific field ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS (ING-INF/02).

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
- Microwave filters and printed devices
- Emerging waveguides
- Metamaterials
- Polaritons at optical frequency
Further details in RESEARCH ACTIVITY section.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Since 1999, she has been appointed to the profession of Engineer.

Since 2000, she is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

In the period September 2003-December 2005, she has been president of the academic spin-off company WaveComm srl.

Since 2006, she is the Italian Student Adviser for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

SOFTWARE SKILLS AND COMPETENCE

Alessia Polemi has a good knowledge of operating systems such as MS Windows 98/NT/2k/XP/Vista and of the following softwares: MS Office, Maltlab, CorelDraw, Latex, Fortran, C, Mathematica. Furthermore, she has very good competence of the electromagnetic simulation software, such as Ansoft Designer, HFSS, CST Microwave Studio, FEKO, MicroWave Office.

TEACHING ACTIVITY

In the academic year 1999/2000, she has given seminars in the contest of the Electromagnetic Field course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena

In the academic year 2000/2001, she has given seminars in the contest of the Microwave course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena

In the academic year 2001/2002, she has given seminars in the contest of the Antennas course at the School of Engineering of University of Siena

In the academic year 2002/2003, she has been appointed to the course Design of Microwave Circuits at the School of Engineering of University of Siena

In 2003, she has been appointed to a course of Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics at the Master on Microwave Systems on Technologies for Telecommunications, Messina (Italy)

In the academic years 2003/2004 and 2004/2005, she has been appointed to the course Electromagnetic Modelling at the School of Engineering of University of Siena

In the academic year 2005 she has given a seminar 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

In the academic year 2005/2006, she has been appointed to the course of Radio Propagation at the School of Engineering of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

MASTER DEGREES TUTORING

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

ATTENDED PHD COURSES

Year 2000, at University of Siena
- Functional analysis elements
- Interpolation and approximation of curves and surfaces
- Optimization Methods
- Wavelets
- Object Oriented Programming

Year 2002, at Chalmers University, Gotheborg, Sweden
- Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard surfaces and their Use in Antenna Analysis and Design

Year 2002, at University of Ancona, PhD School - Ground Penetrating Radar

Year 2005, at Denmark Technical University - Ticra, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence) - Reflector antennas: analysis and design

Year 2005, at Politecnico of Turin, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence) - Computational EM for antenna analysis

Year 2005, at University of Siena, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence) - High Frequency Methods and Travelling Wave Antennas

Year 2006, at University of Dubrovnik, European School of Antennas (ACE - Antenna Center of Excellence) - Advanced Mathematics for Antenna Analysis

NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Alessia Polemi has been part of the following national research programs:

Years 2000-2002. PAR (Piano d’Ateneo per la Ricerca) entitled “Antenna installation for wireless communication systems”

Years 2000-2002. ASI (Italian Space Agency): “Reflectarrays for satellite applications”

Years 2003-2005. PRIN (Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale) entitled “Electromagnetic models for analysis of passive reflectarrays”

Years 2005-2007. PRIN (Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale) entitled “Microwave Radiometer for fire monitoring”

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Alessia Polemi has been part of the following international research programs:

Years 2004-2005. ACE Antenna Centre of Excellence, V Framework Program, WP. 1.1.1 Integration, WP. 3.1.1 European School of Antennas

Years 2005-2006. ACE Antennas Centre of Excellence, VI Framework Program, WP. 3.1.1 European School of Antennas

Years 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

Years 2009-ongoing. EAML European Antenna Modeling Library, TT&C Coverage in Complex Environments

Years 2009-ongoing. EuroStar Project, New production process for medical bags based on RadioFrequency sterilization and ICT

RESEARCH CONTRACTS

Years 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"

Years 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"

Years 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"

Years 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"

Years 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"

Years 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"

Years 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 Modelling Library Components"

Year 2008. Research contract Department of Information Engineering (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) –MD-Microdetectors (protected by NDA)

PUBLICATIONS

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