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1. Amazing developments are coming! We have patented various novel disruptive technologies! Stay tuned!
   
   
2. My seven papers have been accepted at the 22nd International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields COMPUMAG 2019 Paris.
   
   
3. My PhD student Mauro Passarotto won the Best poster grant at the 18th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation CEFC 2018, Hangzhou, China.
   
   
4. I was awarded with a FFABR grant being in the top 12.5% of Associate Professors in Italy in the Electrical Engineering field concerning publication outcomes.
   
   
5. All my seven papers have been accepted at COMPUMAG 2017 Korea. Two of them have been selected by the Compumag board as oral presentations (top 4% of submitted papers).
   
   
6. My PhD student Bernard Kapidani was selected among the three finalists of the Rita Trowbridge Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields COMPUMAG 2017, Daejon, Korea.
   
   
7. The fastest algorithm to date for (co)homology computation in three-dimensional combinatorial manifolds with boundary is described in the following paper:
   P. Dłotko, R. Specogna
   "Physics inspired algorithms for (co)homology computations of three-dimensional combinatorial manifolds with boundary",
   Computer Physics Communications (CPC), Vol. 184, No. 10, 2013, pp. 2257-2266.
   
   

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I'm Specogna Ruben and I currently hold a tenure as Associate Professor faculty member at University of Udine (Italy), Department DPIA (Dipartimento Politecnico di Ingegneria ed Architettura), in the Unit of Electrical Engineering (area 09/E1 Elettrotecnica, settore scientifico disciplinare ING-IND/31 Elettrotecnica). From 2020 I hold the habilitation for Full Professor (abilitazione scientifica nazionale alla qualifica di Professore Ordinario).

I am the principal investigator and head of the EMCLab - EMC, advanced simulation and applied electromagnetics laboratory which focuses on basic scientific research and its technology transfer mainly in the fields of computational electromagnetics, multi-physics problems (nanoelectronics, MEMS, fuel cells modeling), bioelectromagnetics, lab-on-a-chip biosensors, electromagnetic sensors, inverse problems, computational topology and topological data analysis.

I am author of more than 125 journal papers published in refereed international Journals endowed with ISI impact factor and 10 patents. Recently we are collaborating with big silicon valley companies (Google, Integrated Devices Technology (IDT) now Renesas) about the optimization of electromagnetic devices and sensors.

I am Associate Editor of 5 journals Sensors, e-Prime Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Advances in Mathematical Physics and International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics. I was Guest Editor of the ISI journals Sensors for the Special Issue about Electromagnetic Sensors for Biomedical Applications. I am also in the Editorial Board the Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG) and the IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC).

Currently I teach Advanced Simulation for the Design of Electrical Devices (6 ECTS) Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) (6 ECTS) and Electrical Science (9 ECTS).

I received the Master degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Udine, Italy, on April 2003. In 2007 I received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Udine, advisor Prof. Francesco Trevisan. During the Ph.D. I was visiting researcher at Tampere Univerity of Technology, Tampere, Finland (Prof. Lauri Kettunen, Prof. Saku Suuriniemi); at Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium (Prof. Patrick Dular) and at Boston University, Boston, USA (Prof. P. Robert Kotiuga).

During 2008 I was postdoc in the Applied and computational electromagnetics (ACE) research unit of the Montefiore Institute at Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, working with Prof. Patrick Dular and Prof. Chrisophe Geuzaine. From late 2008 to late 2016 I had a tenure as Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of Udine.

During March 2013 I was Visiting Professor at the Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Matematica (CIRM), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) and Università di Trento, Trento, Italy, invited by Prof. Alberto Valli and Ana Alonso. From March to June 2015 I was CNRS Visiting Professor at Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, invited by Prof. Daniele A. Di Pietro. During March 2016 I was ANR Visiting Professor at Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, invited by Prof. Daniele A. Di Pietro. During May 2016 I was Visiting Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, invited by Prof. Ana Alonso.

I am a reviewer for 22 International Journals: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, European Physical Journal-Applied Physics (EPJ-AP), Electronics, Sensors, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Access, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, PLoS ONE, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Journal of Sensors, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Journal of Computational Physics.