Visiting Professors - Current and Announced
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Ciarcià FedericaVisit duration time (from – to): 01 November 2020 - 30 June 2021Affiliation: Universidad de Belgrano Host Department: DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
Federica Ciarcià is an architect specializing in urban planning. She holds a doctorate in architectural and landscape heritage from the Politecnico di Torino created jointly with the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires and has developed a research thesis on the relationship between Le Corbusier and the Argentine Modern Movement. |
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Verlinghieri ErsiliaVisit duration time (from – to): 15 March 2021 - 15 July 2021Affiliation: Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Host Department: DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
Ersilia Verlinghieri is Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster. Since 2012, Ersilia's research focuses on developing theoretical and methodological approaches to issues of social and environmental justice in transport. She has published extensively in key journals in the field of transport geography and planning. As visiting fellow at the DIST, Ersilia is involved in two projects that explore urban transformations after covid19, with Turin as a key case study, aiming to develop answers to the current social and environmental crisis from the starting point of urban mobilities. Firstly, utilizing urban political ecology as a framework and with Turin and Barcelona as case |
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Bozlar MichaelVisit duration time (from – to): 17 May 2021 - 31 July 2021Affiliation: University of Texas, Arlington (USA) Host Department: DENERG - Department of Energy Michael Bozlar is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the Director of the Bozlar Nanoscience Lab, dedicated to advancing the area of nanomaterials synthesis, fundamentals, and applications. Prof. Bozlar is a graduate from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay and CentraleSupelec (France). His current research programs are centered around the fundamental physics and chemistry of low-dimensional materials e.g., graphene, for various applications in aerospace, energy storage, or electronics. Prof. Bozlar has been collaborating with PoliTo since 2018 in the synthesis and characterization of biocompatible hygroscopic materials for applications in atmospheric water harvesting. He has co-authored over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, patents, international conferences. As a Visiting Professor at PoliTo, Prof. Bozlar will offer lectures in materials science and research seminars. He will strive to further advancing his ongoing research activities with DENERG, and also fostering new collaboration opportunities for faculty and students between UT Arlington and PoliTo. |
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Zibar DarkoVisit duration time (from – to): 31 May 2021 - 31 July 2021Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Darko Zibar is Associate Professor at the Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark and the group leader of Machine Learning in Photonics Systems (M-LiPS) group. He received M.Sc. degree in telecommunication and the Ph.D. degree in optical communications from the Technical University of Denmark, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has been on several occasions (2006, 2008 and 2019) visiting researcher with the Optoelectronic Research Group led by Prof. John E. Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB). At UCSB, he has been working on topics ranging from analog and digital demodulation techniques for microwave photonics links and machine learning enabled ultra-sensitive laser phase noise measurements techniques. In 2009, he was a visiting researcher with Nokia-Siemens Networks, working on clock recovery techniques for 112 Gb/s polarization multiplexed optical communication systems. In 2018, he was visiting Professor with Optical Communication (Prof. Andrea Carena, OptCom) group, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino working on the topic of machine learning based Raman amplifier design. His research efforts are currently focused on the application of machine learning technqiues to advance classical and quantum optical communication and measurement systems. Some of his major scientific contributions include: record capacity hybrid optical-wireless link (2011), record sensitive optical phase noise measurement technique that approaches the quantum limit (2019) and design of ultrawide band arbitrary gain Raman amplifier (2019). He is a recipient of Best Student paper award at Microwave Photonics Conference (2006), Villum Young Investigator Programme (2012), Young Researcher Award by University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (2016) and European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (2017). Finally, he was a part of the team that won the HORIZON 2020 prize for breaking the optical transmission barriers (2016). |
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Anabalón Dupuy Andres FernandoVisit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2021 - 31 August 2021Affiliation: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez - Chile Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology
Professor Anabalón finished his Doctorate in 2007 under the supervision of Jorge Zanelli. In 2008 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for gravitational physics (Albert Einstein Institute) as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow. In 2010 he became assistant professor of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Since 2015 he is associate professor at the same university and starting from 01 January 2021 he will be Full Professor in the same institute. He has made research stays |
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Evangelista Luiz RobertoVisit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2021 - 31 December 2021Affiliation: University of Maringá Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology Luiz Roberto Evangelista was born in 1958 in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. He received his Ph. D. from University of São Paulo in 1988. He began as Assistant Professor of University of Maringá in 1982 and became Full Professor of Theoretical Physics in 2001. |
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Ionescu Anca-LuizaVisit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2021 - 30 November 2021Affiliation: University Politehnica of Bucharest Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology Anca-Luiza Ionescu (PhD in Physics, University of Bucharest) is full professor at Department of Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Politehnica of Bucharest. |
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Palmeri AlessandroVisit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2021 - 15 September 2021Affiliation: Loughborough University, United Kingdom Host Department: DISEG - Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering Dr. Alessandro Palmeri is a Reader in Structural Engineering & Dynamics and Leader of the Structures & Materials Group within the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University. Ranked in the top ten in each of the most recent British league tables and in the top 400 of the World University Rankings 2021, Loughborough University is one of the funding members of UKCRIC, the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities, by far the largest integrated research initiative funded by the UK government in the sector. |
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Berlanda TomàVisit duration time (from – to): 01 September 2021 - 31 January 2022Affiliation: School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics, University of Cape Town Host Department: DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
Tomà Berlanda (Venice, 1976), is an architect and scholar with extensive international academic and professional experience. As of April 2015, he is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, where he also held the appointment as Director (2015-2018). His research interests focus on the implications that can be drawn from a non-stereotypical reading of the African city and the practice of architecture in |
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Primdahl JørgenVisit duration time (from – to): 15 September 2021 - 28 November 2021Affiliation: Copenhagen University Host Department: DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
Jørgen Primdahl is professor in Countryside Planning and Management at IGN, University of Copenhagen. His background is landscape architecture with a Ph.D. in landscape planning and planning theory. His main research interest is the rural landscape (patterns, functions, and change) and the roles of public policy interventions. Recently he has published on the rural-urban fringe; multifunctionality in rural landscapes; the farmer as landscape manager; impact |
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Dong GongVisit duration time (from – to): 01 October 2021 - 31 July 2022Affiliation: Vector Architects Host Department: DAD - Department of Architecture and Design
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