Giovanni Antonino AIELLO

CURRICULUM VITAE

On November 10, 1983 he obtained the degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Catania with 110/110 votes.

    From April 1984 to October 1986 he worked as a design engineer at the Microwave research and development division of the Misterbianco (CT) plant of Selenia Spazio S.p.A., now Marconi Selenia Communications S.p.A.

    In September 1986 he was the winner of a competition for the class XL - Electronics for teaching in state institutes of secondary education. From October 1986 to October 1988 he served as a tenured teacher of Electronics in state institutes.

    In September 1987 he won a competitive examination for the class XLIV - Physics for teaching in state secondary schools.

    From November 1988 to October 1990 he attended the PhD course in Electrical Engineering (4th cycle) at the University of Catania, taking advantage of a ministerial scholarship.

    From november 1990 to january 2001 he worked as university researcher of the scientific sector ING-IND/31 Electrotechnics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Catania. From November 1993 to January 2001 he has been confirmed university researcher.

    Since February 2001 he is Associate Professor of the scientific sector ING-IND/31 Electrotechnics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Catania. Since February 2004 he is Confirmed Professor of II fascia.

    Since the academic year 1990-91 he is member of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (DIEES), now Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI) of the University of Catania.

    He has been a member of selection committees for: comparative evaluations of university researchers; the assignment of research grants; the admission to PhD courses, to courses of the Sicilian Interuniversity School of Specialization for Secondary Teaching (SISSIS) and to courses of active training courses (TFA); the assignment of scholarships.

    From December 1996 to January 2001 he has been the representative of the researchers in the Engineering Faculty Council; from July 1997 to January 2001 he has been the representative of the researchers in the DIEES Board; from November 1999 to October 2009 he has been a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD program in Electrical Engineering; from November 2009 he is a member of the Teaching Board of the International PhD program in Energetics; from November 2005 to December 2010 he has been the scientific responsible of the DIEES library. He is a member of the IEEE.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

    The scientific activity has been developed primarily in the field of methodologies, tools and techniques for solving problems of electromagnetism by means of numerical methods, and has covered various research topics related to Electrotechnics.

        In particular, the scientific activity has had for object:

- the formulation, the study of the properties, the validation and the application to various classes of problems of an iterative n-dimensional integro-differential method of innovative character, which used in conjunction with the Finite Element Method (FEM) allows the calculation of electric and magnetic fields (stationary or quasi-stationary, in transient regime or in harmonic time regime, even in the presence of non-linear and/or anisotropic media) in domains of unlimited extension. This method, called FEM-DBCI (Dirichlet Boundary Condition Iteration), suitably modified (FEM-RBCI, Robin Boundary Condition Iteration), is able to solve problems of electromgnetic scattering in harmonic time regime.

- the calculation of stationary electric and magnetic fields in unlimited domains;

- solving problems of induced currents, dynamic or motional, in transient or harmonic time regime;

 - the resolution of skin effect problems in harmonic time regime;

- the development of non-destructive diagnostic techniques;

- the realization and application of stochastic optimization procedures of electromechanical devices;

- the formulation and application of methods for solving coupled electro-thermal problems, in transient regime or in harmonic time regime;

- the circuit modeling of conductor systems;

- the formulation and application of methods for the calculation of electromagnetic fields produced by plasmons in metal nanoparticles;

- the development of computational procedures and algorithms concerning computational electromagnetism;

- the realization of an n-dimensional finite element research code for the calculation of electromagnetic fields, able to carry out all the analyses and calculations required by the research themes mentioned above. This code, called ELFIN, has characteristics of generality, high degree of modularity and simplicity of extension, flexibility and generality of the data structure, and can be used both for the resolution of a specific problem and/or the analysis and electrical modeling of a given system, and for the experimentation of original numerical procedures and the performance of operations of comparison, verification and validation of algorithms and formulations.