Former Group Members
Dario Biallo
Dario Biallo received from the Polytechnic of Bari the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 discussing the laurea thesis “Pulse propagation through 3D photonic crystals” and the title of Research Doctor in Electronic Engineering in 2007. As a master student, he spent a period of study at the University of Barcelona in the group of Prof. Jordi Martorell and dr Muriel. From 2008 to 2010 Dario Biallo worked in the private sector as a consultant at Altran Italia S.p.A. From 2010 he has joined the team of Barzanò & Marzano, an intellectual property strategic consulting company
Domenico de Ceglia
Domenico de Ceglia received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 discussing the laurea thesis “Study of 2nd order noninear interactions in photonics crystals and microcavities” and the title of Research Doctor in Electronic Engineering discussing the PhD thesis “ Nonlinear wave progataion effcts in photonic crystals and metamaterials” in 2007 from the Polytechnic of Bari. As a doctoral student, he spent a period of study at the University of Barcellona in the group of Proff. Ramon Vilaseca, Jordi Martorell. As a doctoral student, he spent a period of study at the laboratory of the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) at Redstone Arsenal, AL (USA). Domenico de Ceglia worked in the private sector as a consultant at Altran Italia S.p.A. From 2009 to 2012 he was Research Scientist at Aegis Technologies Inc. in Huntsville (AL) – USA. In 2012 he received the National Research Council Fellowship from the US National Academies. From 2012 to 2017, he held the role of Senior Research Associate at Charles M. BowdenLaboratory of the US Army AMRDEC, Redstone Arsenal (AL) – USA. Since December 2017 Domenico has held the position of associate professor in “Electromagnetic fields” at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. His research interests are in the area of optics, photonics, and specifically: photonic devices for sensors and imaging, telecommunications, and energy harvesting, metamaterials and metasurfaces for beam forming and beam steering of RF and optical signals , photonics of 2D materials, nonlinear optics for biophotonics, nanoplasmonics and quantum effects, materials with almost zero permittivity. Domenico is the author/co-author of 150 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is also co-author of 3 book chapters on metamaterials, plasmonics and effective media theories, and he is the inventor of a United States patent entitled “Photonic band gap solar cell”.
Maria Antonietta Vincenti
Maria Antonietta Vincenti received her Laurea degree (summa cum laude) and PhD in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2007 to 2009 she also worked as Research fellow at the US Army Charles M. Bowden Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal under several awards sponsored by the U.S. Army Forward Element Command Atlantic. From 2009 till 2012 and from 2016 to 2017 she worked as a Research Scientist for AEgis Technologies Inc. From 2012 to 2017 she was appointed as a Research Associate of the National Research Council at the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. She was the recipient of the “Rita Levi-Montalcini” award for young researchers funded by the Italian Ministry for Education (MIUR) for the year 2016. From 2017 till 2020 she has been an Assistant Professor for the Department of Information Engineering at University of Brescia – Italy. From 2020 Maria Antonietta Vincenti is an Associate Professor for the Department of Information Engineering at University of Brescia – Italy. Maria Antonietta Vincenti’s research activity focuses on theoretical investigations and computational modeling of linear and nonlinear interactions in optical nanostructures, including plasmonic devices, optical sensors, low-permittivity media, 2D materials like graphene, sub-wavelength structures for light harvesting. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings; three book chapters; and holds one US patent.
Valeria Marrocco
Valeria Marrocco was born in Bari (Italy) in 1974 and took the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari in February 2003. Since then she has joined the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica (DEE) of Politecnico di Bari, receiving in July 2003 a grant for a research activity devoted to the study of active devices doped with rare earths. In February 2004 she began the Ph.D. course in Electronic Engineering (Electromagnetism) and took the PhD degree in June 2007. Since then up to October 2008, she was involved in a research project sponsored by Apulia Region, which concerned a joint project between Politecnico di Bari and local industries. In December 2008 she received a post-doc position at Politecnico di Bari. From the beginning of her scientific career she has been involved in the european COST Action activities. Her main research interests focused on the modelling and design of photonic crystal-based devices for WDM applications, linear and nonlinear photonic crystals and the intriguing phenomena and potential of plasmonics, paying particular attention to photovoltaic and LED applications. Since 2011 she has moved at CNR-ITIA (now CNR-STIIMA), where she is currently part of the research group MEDIS. She is now involved in research activities concerning micro-manufacturing of micro-components and devices, related to micro-EDM, and, in particular, to the development of monitoring system and modelling techniques. Her research activity implies also micro-additive manufacturing for the design and development of 5G and mmwave components. She has co-authored several peer-review papers and participated also as invited speaker to several international conferences. She is currently a referee for scientific international journals (ISI-WoS) and took part to different national projects.
Giovanni Magno
Giovanni Magno was born in Taranto (TA) on June 14th 1979. He graduated at the Arts High School “Lisippo” in Taranto (TA) and received the Master Degree in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico di Bari in Dicember 2011 discussing the Master Thesis “Analysis and design of long range plasmonic vertical couplers”. From January 2012, to December 2014 he was a Ph.D Student in Electronic Engineer at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione of Politecnico di Bari. From May 27, 2013 to March 3, 2014, he was Visiting Researcher at LAAS (Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems) – CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) of Toulouse (France). He received the PhD title on 24 april 2015 discussing the Thesis “Mesoscopic Self-Collimation in Photonic Crystal Structures”. From Sep 2014 to May 2015 he was Research Engineer –at Politecnico di Bari – nPEG Group – Bari, Italy – Independent contractor on Project PON “RES NOVAE”, dealing with the modelling of plasmonic nanostructures assisted thin film photovoltaic cells for the improvement of the energetic efficiency and the modelling actuators based on magnetorheological fluids. From Jun 2015 to Oct 2016 he was Post-Doc researcher – IEF – Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale, CNRS, Paris-Sud University, Cimphonie Group – Orsay, Paris, France – Paris-Sud|PSA chair support, dealing with the numerical design and characterisation of plasmonic nanotweezers for small particle manipulation. From Nov 2016 to Oct 2017 he was Post-Doc researcher – C2N – Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotchnology, CNRS, Paris-Sud University, Paris-Saclay University, Cimphonie Group – Orsay, Paris, France – in collaboration with Thales R&D, dealing with the design and experimental near-field characterization of integrated electron beam optical modulators based on localized surface plasmon polaritons From Nov 2017 he is Post-Doc researcher at the C2N – Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotchnology, CNRS, Oxide Group Palaiseau, Paris-Saclay, France – in the framework of the SOFIA project, dealing with the non-linear heat equation, including phase change and non-homogeneous media, based on a finite difference scheme and the development of tools for opto-thermal multiphysics simulation
Lucia Colamonaco
Lucia Colamonaco was born in Acquaviva delle Fonti (BA) on February 27th 1986. She graduated at the scientific high school “Sante Simone” in Turi (Italy) with the highest mark and she received the Master degree, summa cum laude, in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Bari in Dicember 2013 discussing the Master Thesis “Design of a microstructured polymeric fiber waveguide for applications in the teraHertz range “. From march 2014 till December 2014 she was an independent contractor at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione at Politecnico di Bari developing a research titled “Simulation of plasmonic structures for the realization of a pre-prototype of inclinometer”. From November 2014 to November 2015 she carried out an internship at Ericsson – Rome (Italy). From november 2015 to march 2016 she was integration manager at Ericsson. From april 2016 to may 2017 she was consultant at Ericsson. From may 2017 to December 2018 she was project manager at Reply – Milan (Italy) and consultant at Vodafone-Italy. From december 2018 she is Network Engineer at Ericsson – Milan (Italy).
Ruggiero Delcuratolo
Ruggiero Delcuratolo was born in Barletta (BT) on August 26th 1984. He graduated at the Science High School “Carlo Cafiero” in Barletta (BT) and he received the Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Bari in June 2013 discussing the Master Thesis “Development of a Fourier optics simulation software for Spatial Division Multiplexing analysis” in collaboration with the Electro-Optical group of Thechnische Universiteit of Eindhoven (NL). From October 2013 to February 2014, he worked as an internship at Sky Italia in Milan. From March 2014 to December 2014 he was an independent contractor at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione at Politecnico di Bari. From Jan 2015 to Feb 2019 he worked at Altran as a Consultant Engineer for TIM -Rome. From Nov 2017 to Feb 2019 he worked at Altran as Advanced Consultant Engineer for TIM- Rome. From Mar 2019 to June 2020 worked at Altran as Advanced Consultant Engineer for Sky –Milan (Italy). From June 2020 he is IT Senior Integration and Validation Engineer for Fastweb – Bari (Italy) at Altran.
Antonio Lovascio
Antonio Lovascio received, from the Polytechnic of Bari, his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering in November 2012 and his Master’s Degree with honors in Telecommunications Engineering in april 2016, discussing the Master thesis “Design of a COTS-Based S-Band TT&C for LEO Small Platform”. In February 2020 he obtained the title of Research Doctor in Electrical and Information Engineering, discussing the PhD thesis “Design of a Satellite Platform with All-Electric Propulsion Systems.” As a doctoral student, he spent a period of study at the Space Division of Sitael Hellas (Greece). During the PhD course he was engaged in research on RF systems and devices for the aerospace, and co-authored of 8 peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2019, he received the best presentation awards at the 2019 International Conference on Aerospace Design and Optimization Technologies (ICADOT 2019) for the paper “Design of a Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Radio Frequency Receiver for Small Satellites Based on Commercial Off The Shelf Components” (by A. Lovascio, A. D’Orazio, V. Centonze). Since January 2020 Antonio has held the position of Satellite Electrical Architect at Sitael – Mola di Bari. Currently, he is dealing with the implementation of the electrical interconnection of the satellite platform units, the management of the on-board software requirements related to the electrical power subsystem, and the EMC issues.
Giuseppe Morea
Giuseppe Morea received, from the Polytechnic of Bari, the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering in July 2008 discussing the laurea thesis “Design of optical devices in high contrast-index waveguide” having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Andrea Melloni (Politecnico di Milano) and the title of Research Doctor in Electronic Engineering discussing the PhD thesis “Design and characterization of optical nanostructures” in March, 2012. As a doctoral student, he spent a period of study at PoliCom (a research group of Polytechnic of Milan). During the PhD course he was engaged in research on design and characterization of silicon photonic devices, plasmonic and optical nanostructures for sensing applications and co-authored 19 peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2010 he received an award at the conference FOTONICA 2010 for the paper “Impatto degli incroci tra guide d’onda nei dispositivi in Silicio” (G. Morea, A. Canciamilla, F. Morichetti, A. Melloni and M. Martinelli). Since March 2012, Giuseppe has held the position of Program Manager at SITAEL S.p.A
Roberto Marani
Roberto Marani was born in Trani (BA) on March 27, 1985. He graduated at the scientific high school “E. Fermi” with the highest mark. On July 20, 2006 he held his Electronic Engineering degree from the Politecnico di Bari with 110/110 cum laude discussing a thesis in Electromagnetic Compatibility, titled “Design of optical devices using BPM techniques”. In October 2008 he received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering with a mark of 110/110 cum laude, defending a thesis in Optoelectronics II, titled “Modelling and design of photonic bandgap devices by means of Green’s functions”. From January 2009 to December 2011 he attended the PhD course of Information Engineering at the Electronic and Electrotechnic Department of the Polytechnic University of Bari. From January 2009 to February 2010 he carried out his research activity at the Optoelectronics Laboratory (Bari), and from March 2010 to March 2012 he cooperated with the nanoPhotonics and Electromagnetics Group (nPEG) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. From February 2011 to October 2011 he went to Madrid, Spain, joining the Nanophotonics Group of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (Departamento di Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In April 2012 he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Engineering. From May 2012 to April 2014 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione – ISSIA) of the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR) in Bari, where he is working on the three-dimensional object reconstruction via laser scanning and range image processing for machine vision. From May 2014 to June 2018 he served as staff Researcher of the ISSIA at the CNR, and he was involved in the design of hardware and software prototypes for autonomous systems. Since July 2018 he is permantent staff Researcher of the Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato – STIIMA) of the CNR, where he cooperates with the Intelligent Sensing and Perception Group for computer vision, machine and deep learning applications, dedicated to industrial applications, robotics, geology, archaeology and reverse engineering. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers on international peer-reviewed journals and 40 proceedings of international conferences. His research interests include: novel methodologies for the automatic detection and characterization of defects in manufactured goods and for infrastructural monitoring; image and video analysis for people segmentation and tracking, gesture/pose understanding, and classification of images via deep learning; study of gain dynamics in active media for lasing applications and optical amplification, and design of complex optical systems (such as photonic and plasmonic crystals) for sensing, photovoltaics, and optical interconnections; analysis of electronic devices, with a focus on field-effect transistors on carbon nanotubes (CNTFETs), at high frequencies the comprehensive design of analog and digital electronic circuits.