Ph.D. Specogna Ruben
Birth: 23/03/1977 in Cividale del Friuli (Udine), Italy
Citizenship: Italian
Home address: via Pavia 21/8, 33100 Udine, Italy
Assistant Professor at
Unit of Electrical Engineering
Department DIEGM (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica)
University of Udine
1st floor, room 108 north-est
Via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
Office Telephone: +39 0432 55 8285
Office Facsimile: +39 0432 55 8251
E-mail: ruben [dot] specogna [at] uniud [dot] it
Homepage URL: http://www.comphys.com
Ph.D. Degree in Industrial and Information Engineering, Univerisy of Udine, May 4th 2007.
Qualified for the profession of Engineer on the 1st session of 2003 of Italian State Exams, September 16th 2003.
Master Degree in Electronical Engeenering, University of Udine, A.A. 2001/2002.
High school: Master Degreee (Diploma di Perito Capotecnico), specialization Electronics, ITI "A. Malignani", Udine, 1995/96.
01/06/2003-30/10/2003: won a 15 months research assistant scholarship with prof. Francesco Trevisan.
01/03/2003-now: founded, togeather with Prof. F. Treivsan, the GAME (Geometric Approach to Maxwell's Equations) project to develop a electromagnetic field solver that implements the new geometric ideas.
01/11/2003-31/10/2006: won a 3 years grant for a PhD student in Industrial and Information Engineering in the Department of Eletrical, Mechanical and Management at University of Udine.
2003/2004: working in the PRIN (Projects of Relevant National Interest) "Numerical implementation of the discrete geometric formulation and comparison with differential approaches and discretized integrals", national responsable prof. G. Molinari, responsable in the unit of Udine prof. F. Trevisan.
01/03/2005-30/06/2005: visiting researcher at T.U.T. (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland), in the Department of Electrical Engeneering, Institute of Computational Electromagnetism, with the supervision of Prof. L. Kettunen and PhD Saku Suuriniemi in the framework of the Advanced Computational Electromagnetism (ACE) collaboration.
12-15/09/2004: poster presentation at 11th IGTE Symposium on Numerical Fields Calculation 2004, Graz, Austria.
25-29/10/2004: XIII Stage of the National PhD School of Electrotecnics "F. Gasparini", Naples, Italy.
03/11/2004-02/12/2004: visiting researcher at ULg (University of Liège, Liège, Belgium), in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sience, Unit of Applied Electricity, with the supervision of Prof. Patrick Dular.
2005/2006: working in the PRIN (Projects of Relevant National Interest) "Developing of NDT methods and applications on industrial processes (AMDE Project)", national responsable prof. E. Cardelli, responsable in the unit of Udine prof. F. Trevisan.
28/05/2005-03/06/2005: Graduate School of Applied EM, “Chainlet geometry” course by prof. Jenny Harrison (University of Berkeley, USA) and presentation at the ACE '05 (Advanced Computational Electromagnetism) Seminar, Tampere, Finland.
15/06/2005: Short Course of the National PhD School of Electrotecnics "F. Gasparini", Rome.
16/06/2005-18/06/2005: Poster presentation at the National Meeting of Electrical Engineering Researchers ET2005, Rome.
26/06/2005-01/07/2005: Poster presentation at COMPUMAG 2005, Shenyang, China.
17-21/10/2005: IX Stage of the National PhD School of Electrotecnics "F. Gasparini", Naples, Italy.
04/05/2006-06/05/2006: poster presentation at ACE '06 (Advanced Computational Electromagnetism) Seminar, Boston, USA.
01/05/2006-02/07/2006: visiting researcher at BU (Boston University, Boston, MA, USA), in the Center for Computational Science, with the supervision of Prof. Robert Kotiuga.
16/06/2006: winner of the “Best Poster” prize at the Italian Meeting of Researcher in Electrical Engineering (ET2006), Turin, Italy.
13–15/09/2006: poster presentation at the 9th Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism (OIPE) 2006, Sorrento, Italy.
16-20/10/2006: X Stage of the National PhD School of Electrotecnics "F. Gasparini", Naples, Italy.
01/12/2006-30/11/2007: won a 12 months Postdoc grant to work with Prof. F. Trevisan at DIEGM, University of Udine.
20-22/03/2007: visit to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
24-28/06/2007: poster presentation at COMPUMAG 2007, Aachen, Germany.
28-30/06/2007: presentation at ACE '07 (Advanced Computational Electromagnetism) Seminar, Aachen, Germany.
1999-2002: software and web sites developer. Very good knowledge of C/C++, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, Matlab, ANSYS, PHP, HTML, SQL e Javascript.
2000-now: president and promoter of the Linter Association (http://www.vallidelnatisone.org) for the study of the cultural aspects of the river Natisone's Valleys.
consulting for Danieli Automation S.p.a in the framework of a national PRIN project AMDE.
consulting for the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Udine in the framework of a regional research project for electrofishing.
consulting for the RFX experiment, Padua, concerning the optimization of a spacer for the trasnmission line of the Neutron Beam Injector (NBI) of ITER.
1998-1999: teacher in the 60 hours course Basic Informatics organized by the Slovenian Regional Institute for Professional Inscruction in the course "Formazione imprenditoriale: servizi nel settore del turismo, dell'ambiente e del tempo libero".
Laboratory for the course "Numerical Modeling for Fields and circuits": A.A. 2006/07, A.A. 2005/06, A.A. 2004/05.
Exercises of Basic Circuit Theory: A.A. 2006/07, A.A. 2005/06, A.A. 2004/05.
Ing. Paolo Martin, a.a. 2004-2005, title: “Algoritmi di Krylov per risolvere sistemi lineari
derivanti da formulazioni discrete dell’elettromagnetismo”.
Ing. Mario Michelutti, a.a. 2005-2006, title “Sviluppo di un reticolatore Delaunay-Voronoi
per la soluzione di problemi di campo elettrico e magnetico mediante formulazioni finite”.