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Contact information:

Giovanni Finocchio
Address: V.le F. D’Alcontres 31, I 98166 Messina (ME) – Italia
Tel. 0039.090.6765555
Email: gfinocchio@unime.it

Actual employment (since 12/2018):

Associate Professor of “Electrical Engineering” SSD 09/E1 (ING-IND/31).Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy .

February – August 2019:

Visiting scholar at Northwestern University (https://www.northwestern.edu/). Evanston, IL, USA. Hosted by Prof. Pedram Khalili Amiri (https://sites.google.com/view/perlab//).

Main duties and responsibilities:

Coordination of Research Activities.
Teaching Courses of Electrical Engineering (09/E1 – S.S.D. ING-IND/31).
Writing proposals for research founding.
Vice-coordinator of the Computational Laboratory of Magnetism at University of Messina.
Supervisor of undergraduate and PhD students.

Since October 2017:  Co-director of the joint-laboratory UNIME (University of Messina University)-SINANO (Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Science) “Joint Laboratory UNIME-SINANO of PETAscale computing and SPINtronics – PETASPIN”.

Assistant Professor – 12/2010 – 11/2018

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. (09/E1 – S.S.D. ING-IND/31).  Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences. University of Messina – Viale F. Stagno d’Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy

Research adjunct (2014 – to date):

INGV Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Via Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma.
Research activities about the project PON: SIGLOD
Smart systems to support the management and the localization of waste dumps.

Adjunct professor (2013-2015):

University of Calabria (http://www.unical.it/portale/)
Via P. Bucci 42C, Rende, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy

  • 2013 – 2014: Course: Theory of Electrical Networks. (90 hours)
  • 2014 – 2015: Course: Theory of Electrical Networks. (90 hours)

Education:

  • 1996 – 2001 Degree in Electronic Engineering – Summa cum Laude; Thesis on “Ferromagnetism and Hysteresis model based on Preisach Formalism” . The thesis describes how to use of Preisach model to describe the ferromagnetic hysteresis. The thesis has been developed in part at the Laboratory of Magnetism at University of Perugia, Italy (Prof. Ermanno Cardelli).
  • 2002 – 2005 PhD in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”.Thesis on “Macromagnetic and micromagnetic modeling of ferromagnets, nanomagnetism and spintronics” – University of Messina.The thesis deals with the development of advanced non linear models to describe ferromagnetic hysteresis at different scale from (tens of nanometer to mm). In particular, there have been developed Vectorial Preisach model, Hysteresis Fuzzy model and a micromagnetic framework.

Past employments:

  • 2008 – 2010  Senior Research Associate in: “Computational Magnetism and Spintronics, and Magnetic Material Modeling”. Department of Matter Physics and Electronic Engineering. University of Messina; Italy.
  • 2006 – 2007  Postdoctoral Research Associate in: “Spintronics and Micromagnetism”. Department of Matter Physics and Electronic Engineering. University of Messina, Italy.Note: During my PhD course and the post-doctorate, I spent time at Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (theoretical group of Prof. Luis Torres) and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (experimental groups of Profs. Daniel Ralph and Robert Buhrmam).

Main additional skills

Software languages programming: C/C++, Fortran, CUDATM programming, Matlab.
Additional knowledge: Fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms.
Signal processing tool knowledge: Wavelet, Huang-Hilbert-Transform.

Italian teaching experiences

Assistant lecturer at University of Messina:

  • 2003 to date: Theory of electrical networks.
  • 2006 to 2008: Applied Physics.
  • 2006 to 2008: Signal processing.

Lecturer at University of Messina:

  • 2010 – 2011: Course: Design of Electrical Systems. Faculty of Industrial Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2011 – 2012: Course: Electromagnetic properties of materials. Faculty of Material Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2012 – 2013: Course: Electromagnetic properties of materials. Faculty of Material Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2013 – 2014: Course: Electromagnetic properties of materials. Faculty of Material Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2014 – 2015: Course: Electromagnetic properties of materials. Faculty of Material Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2015 – 2016: Course: Modeling of non-linear systems. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2016 – 2017: Course: Modeling of non-linear systems. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. (60 hours)
  • 2017 – 2018: Course: Modeling of non-linear systems. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. (60 hours)

 

  • 2010: Electromagnetic Optics – PhD course in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”. (10 hours)
  • 2011: Electromagnetic Optics – PhD course in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”. (10 hours)
  • 2012: Electromagnetic Optics – PhD course in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”. (10 hours)
  • 2013: Electromagnetic Optics – PhD course in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”. (10 hours)
  • 2014: Electromagnetic Optics – PhD course in “Advanced technologies for optoelectronics, photonics and electromagnetic modeling”. (10 hours)

 

  • 2012: Lecturer of the master “Micro e Nano Technologies Extra-High Frequency applications” for graduated students. Teaching course: Nanomagnetism and Spintronics.(100 hours).

International Teaching experiences

  • July 2006: NATO ASI school: “Magnetic nanostructures for micro-electromechanical systems and spintronic applications”. Teaching course: “Micromagnetic modeling” – Lecturer.
  • June 2012: STA/ERASMUS lecturer at University of Salamanca, Spain (10 hours). Tutorial in the course of Electromagnetism: “Modeling of magnetic material at nanoscale for the design of spintronic devices”.
  • September 2012: Lecturer, for PhD and master students, at Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Suzhou, China (16 hours). Teaching course: “Electrical network theory and design of non-linear oscillators”.
  • June 2013: STA/ERASMUS lecturer at University of Salamanca, Spain (16 hours). Tutorial in the course of Electromagnetism: “Modeling of magnetic material at nanoscale for the design of spintronic devices”.
  • February – March 2014: Visiting professor at the Department of Physics – Bogazici University. Istanbul, Turkey. Teaching course: “Non linear dynamics”.
  • May – September 2014: Selected for the participation in the PROMETEUS PROJECT from the Equator Ministry of Education.
  • April 2015: Visiting professor at the Department of Physics – University of Lorraine. Nancy, France. Series of seminaries about Spintronics and spin-orbitronics.
  • June 2017: ERASMUS+ KA103 Staff Mobility for Teaching at University of Salamanca, Spain (8 hours).Tutorial in the course of Electromagnetism: “Advances in spintronics: towards spin-dependent multiphysics devices”.
  • February 2019 – July 2019: Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, USA (reference prof. Pedram Amiri).

Other experiences

  • Since 2003, qualified to practice as Engineer (registered in the National Engineer’s Register in the province of Messina).
  • Since 2012, member of the “Commission of the regional coordination of ICT systems” (CCSIR) for the “Regione Sicilia”.