About me
Hi, I'm Mauro Focardi. I
was born on April 26, 1971 in Rignano sull'Arno, a small village near
Florence were I still live. I'm graduated in Physics and I have a Ph.D.
in Electronic Engineering. Actually I'm a post-doc student at the
Department of Astronomy and Space Science of the University of Florence
where I work
with the XUVLab Group.
The Department of Astronomy and Space Science (DASS) has been engaged in
fundamental research in astrophysics and space physics since its establishment.
DASS has started at the end of 1996 an experimental laboratory, the XUVLab,
aimed at developing technologies in the field of instrumentation for UV and
X-ray astronomy (XUV, spectral range 1-200 nm). The activity has mainly
addressed the study and the development of XUV detectors and instrumentation
for UV spectroscopy and polarimetry. Traditional detectors, i.e., equipped with
CCD’s, photomultipliers and photon counters, are developed for space and
laboratory applications, but R&D activities concern also innovative
detectors, based on new technologies and materials.
My principal research interest lies in the field of technology
and instrumentation for Astrophysics, CCD and CMOS sensors and relative
readout electronics, but I'm also interested and involved in industrial and civil low frequency electro-magnetic simulations.
In broad terms, my works concerns the development of opto-electronic
devices for astronomy spectroscopy and polarimetry imaging, but
sometimes I'm involved with Technical Studios of Engineering to
simulate electro-magnetic emissions from power stations and electrical
lines.
The use of electro-magnetic simulation software permits to solve some problems relatives to the presumptive
knowledge of human exposition to electromagnetic fields. In fact a lot
of epidemiological studies on humans indicated a link between EMFs and
serious health problems like cancer and leucemias. So, some years ago,
I decided to implement a semi-finite elements software to help
technicians to evaluate the low frequency electro-magnetic emissions of
electrical power installations on project stage.
To be continued...