About me

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'm a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering. Actually I'm involved as a post-doc fellowship at the XUVLab of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence.

The Dep.of Physics and Astronomy start it's activity in early 2010 from the merging of the Dep. of Physics and the Dep. of Astronomy and Space Science of the University of Florence.

The latter (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...