Past Visiting Professors - 2018

	Naishadham Krishna Visit duration time (from – to): 15 June 2017 - 14 April 2018 Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Prof. Krishna Naishadham is Full Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (US).
	DAHL PER-JOHAN Visit duration time (from – to): 01 September 2017 - 30 June 2018 Affiliation: Columbia University Host Department: DAD - Department of Architecture and Design Dr. Per-Johan Dahl is an architect and researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, a Master of Architecture from Lund University, and a University Certificate in Civil Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology.
	MEJIA MONASTERIO Carlos Visit duration time (from – to): 01 September 2017 - 28 February 2018 Affiliation: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Host Department: DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences Prof. Carlos MEJIA MONASTERIO is full professor of Phisics and Mathematical at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
	Vaillant Roca Lidice Visit duration time (from – to): 25 September 2017 - 24 June 2018 Affiliation: University of Havana Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology Dr. Lidice Vaillant Roca is Junior Lecturer at the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory, Energy Division Institute of Materials Science's and Technology- IMRE (University of Havana).
	Mainini Laura Visit duration time (from – to): 01 October 2017 - 30 April 2018 Affiliation: Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology (MIT) Host Department: DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dr. Mainini earned a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. Her doctoral studies focused on the development of multidisciplinary and multi-fidelity methodologies for the design and optimization of aerospace systems -- with emphasis on the design of aircraft wings undergoing large shape changes -- for which she was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct part of her research at Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology.
	Gribaudi Maurizio Visit duration time (from – to): 28 November 2017 - 27 February 2018 Affiliation: École des hautes études en sciences sociales Host Department: DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning Professor Maurizio Gribaudi is member of Laboratoire de démographie et d'histoire sociale at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His main research projects are connected to the analysis of social networks and cultural practices.
	Parker Robert Glenn Visit duration time (from – to): 18 January 2018 - 18 July 2018 Affiliation: Virginia Tech University Host Department: DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering From 2012 Prof. Parker is the L.S. Randolph Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously he was a University Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean at University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint University. He recieved his M.S. and PhD degrees form the University of California, Berkeley.
	NASSAR ELSAYED ABDEL-ATI Visit duration time (from – to): 01 February 2018 - 31 July 2018 Affiliation: Oakland Universirsity (Michigan) Host Department: DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Nassar got his PhD in 1981 at the University of Cincinnati; in the period 1985-2002 has been at the Lawrence Technological University (Michigan). In 2002 (since now) he moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University (Michigan).
	WHITTLE TIMOTHY MARK Visit duration time (from – to): 01 February 2018 - 31 July 2018 Affiliation: lndependent Consultant Petroleum Engineer - Visiting Professar at Imperial College, London, UK Host Department: DIATI - Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering Graduating in Engineering Science from Cambridge University, his practicat knowledge was gained early on working in the field with Flopetroi-Schlumberger. He then joined their R&D department and offered an essential contribution to the development of the pressure derivative analysis method. He pursued a technically focused career in which he developed software (lnterpret), provided consulting servìces and taught pressure transient analysis to a global community of petroleum engineers. He is now an independent petroleum engineer and Visiting Professar at Imperial College supporting research into multi-well deconvolution and assisting in the supervision of MSc and PhD petroleum engineers.
	PALMA CRESPO MILAGROS Visit duration time (from – to): 15 February 2018 - 15 May 2018 Affiliation: Universidad de Granada, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas Host Department: DAD - Department of Architecture and Design Milagros Palma Crespo, Architect, PhD in Architecture with the final dissertation “Baeza Restaurada. Un siglo de intervenciones en el patrimonio monumental” (“Cum Laude”), is “Profesor asociado laboral” at “Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura - Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas” of the University of Granada, Spain, in the field of Restoration and Construction.
	Massotti Luca Visit duration time (from – to): 16 February 2018 - 15 May 2018 Affiliation: European Space Agency (ESA) Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Luca Massotti received the Laurea degree in Aerospace Engineering form Politecnico di Torino in 2000, and the PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Aeronautical and Space Department of Politecnico di Torino in 2004. In 2001-2002 he was visiting researcher at West Virginia University (US) to study aircraft modelling and Neural Network controllers. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Earth Observation Programmes Department of the European Spave Agency (ESA) at ESTEC facility, in The Netherlands. He is currently a consultant at ESA/ESTEC, Earth Observation Programmes Directorate - Future Missions division.
	Crainic Teodor Gabriel Visit duration time (from – to): 20 February 2018 - 19 June 2018 Affiliation: CIRRELT and ESG- UQAM, Montreal Host Department: DAUIN - Department of Control and Computer Engineering Teodor Gabriel Crainic is Professar of Operations Research, Transportation , and Logistics, School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also Adjunct Professar with the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research of the Université de Montréal, and senior scientist at CIRRELT, the lnteruniversity Research Center far Enterprise Networks , Logistics and Transportation , where he is Director of the lntelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory . He is a member of the Steering Committee (Comitato Guida) of the ICT far City Logistics and Enterprises Lab, Politecnico di Torino , ltaly.
	Nurowski Pawel Visit duration time (from – to): 01 March 2018 - 31 May 2018 Affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Host Department: DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences Prof. Nurowksi Pawel is full professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
	RUIZ PALACIO FREDY ORLANDO Visit duration time (from – to): 15 March 2018 - 15 June 2018 Affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Fredy Ruiz is an Associate professor at the Electronics Engineering Department of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. He received the Bachelor (2002) and M.Sc. (2006) degrees in Electronics Engineering, both from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and the Ph.D. (2009) degree in Information and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
	Roussey Matthieu Visit duration time (from – to): 01 April 2018 - 30 June 2018 Affiliation: University of Eastern Finland Host Department: DISAT - Department of Applied Science and Technology Matthieu Roussey received his PhD from the University of Franche-Comté (FEMTO-ST Institute, Besancon, France) in January 2008 on the topic “tunable lithium niobate photonic crystals”. He worked between 2007 and 2011 as project/team leader in the Optics & Photonics Technology Laboratory (EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland). Since 2011, he is senior postdoc in the Institute of Photonics, and became associate professor (tenure track) in experimental photonics in the same department in October 2016. His research interests are integrated optics, experimental photonics, nanostructures and waveguide devices on various materials (Silicon, titanium dioxide, polymer, Lithium Niobate etc.).
	Yaneva Albena Visit duration time (from – to): 01 April 2018 - 30 June 2018 Affiliation: The University of Manchester Host Department: DAD - Department of Architecture and Design Professor Albena Yaneva is an anthropologist of architecture with a PhD from École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (2001). She is Professor in Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, and Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG), Manchester Urban Institute.
	Lukszo Zofia Visit duration time (from – to): 02 April 2018 - 30 June 2018 Affiliation: Delft University of Technology Host Department: DENERG - Department of Energy Zofia Lukszo is associate professor within the Energy and Industry Group at the Faculty on Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She studied applied mathematics and philosophy at (Technical) University of Lodz, Poland, and received a PhD degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics, the Netherlands in 1996.
	VALAVANIS KIMON Visit duration time (from – to): 04 April 2018 - 03 September 2018 Affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Host Department: DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dr. Ing. Prof. Kimon P. Valavanis is John Evans Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Research and Innovation, D. F. Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver.
	SHACHAM YOSEF Visit duration time (from – to): 07 April 2018 - 06 October 2018 Affiliation: Tel Aviv University Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, The Bernard L. Schwartz chair for nano scale information technologies, Department of Electrical Engineering - Physical electronics and the department of Material science and technology, Faculty of engineering, Tel Aviv University.D.Sc. EE 1983, M.Sc. EE 1980, and B.Sc. EE (Summa-cum Laude) 1978, all in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 1983-post-doctorate at U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA. 1987- 1989 senior lecturer, the Technion, Israel. 1989-1996 assistant professor Cornell university, Ithaca NY, USA, 1997-2001 Associate professor and since 2001 a full professor at the school of electrical engineering, Physical Electronics department, Tel-Aviv University.
	RUOTSAILANEN KEIJO Visit duration time (from – to): 01 May 2018 - 31 July 2018 Affiliation: University of Oulu Host Department: DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences Prof. Ruotsailanen is Full professor at the Mathematics Division of the Faculty of Technology of the University of Oulu.
	Adrian Simon Bernhard Visit duration time (from – to): 15 May 2018 - 15 October 2018 Affiliation: Technical University of Munich Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Simon Adrian received the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2009, the Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 2010, and the Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from TUM, Germany, in 2012.
	CHUA LEON ONG Visit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2018 - 30 November 2018 Affiliation: University of California at Barkeley Host Department: DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Prof. Leon O. Chua, received the MSEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, and the Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign in 1964. After that he was Assistant and Associate Professor at Purdue University until 1970. He became a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California at Berkeley since 1971. Dr. Chua is known as a pioneer in 3 major research areas, namely, nonlinear circuits, chaos, and cellular neural networks.
	Bosio Alberto Visit duration time (from – to): 01 June 2018 - 30 November 2018 Affiliation: Université de Montpellier Host Department: DAUIN - Department of Control and Computer Engineering Alberto Bosio got a PhD degree in Computer Engineering in the area of digitai systems dependability at the Politecnico di Torino (ltaly) in 2006. He further moved to Montpellier {France) where he had the opportunity to obtain a permanent posìtion as Associate Professar (Maitre de Conférences) in the Universìté de Montpellìer in 2007.
	Portolan Michele Visit duration time (from – to): 18 June 2018 - 18 December 2018 Affiliation: Grenoble-INP Phelma Host Department: DAUIN - Department of Control and Computer Engineering Michele Portolan is an Associate Professar at the Phelma School of Grenoble-INP engineering school since September 2013, and is a member of the TI MA Laboratory. His main research activities are disruptive approaches applied to the test of electronics systems, with a special focus on function test, dynamic topologies and massive interactive test execution.
	Simis Aron Visit duration time (from – to): 01 September 2018 - 30 November 2018 Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Host Department: DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences PhD in Mathematics from Queen's University, Canada (1972). Presently, full professor emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil), has been before full professor at IMPA (1972-1981). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (since 1980) and TWAS (since 1993). Holds a research grant from the Brazilian Research Council since 1982 and has been invited senior visitor in several national and international institutions. His mathematical interests lie in the fields of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with interactions within topics of algebraic combinatorics and computer algebra.
	MILANI ALBERT JAMES Visit duration time (from – to): 13 September 2018 - 12 December 2018 Affiliation: Univerisity of Wisconsin Host Department: DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences Albert Milani is a mathematics professor at University of Wisconsin
	VOLODYMYR ZOZULYA Visit duration time (from – to): 01 October 2018 - 31 December 2018 Affiliation: Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A.C. Host Department: DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prof. Zozulya is Full professor at the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A.C.