Contact information
Name: Barbara Cannas
Address: Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari
Telephone +39 070 6755858
Email barbara.cannas@unica.it

Personal information
Date of Birth: December 24, 1971
Place of Birth: Cagliari, Italy
Citizenship: Italian
Sex: female
Marital Status: married
Children 2

Current position
Since March 2022 full professor in the SSD ING-IND-31 sector “Elettrotecnica”, at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Cagliari.
 

Education
1996 Master degree on in Electric Engineering, University of Cagliari, with rank 110/110 cum laude. Title of the dissertation: "Metrology and quality," supervised by Prof. Alessandra Fanni.
1996-1999 PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Cagliari. Title of the dissertation: "Development of circuital and neural techniques for the processing of chaotic signals and systems."
2000-2002 Research grant on "Analysis and synthesis of complex systems with neural networks" sector ING-IND/31, supervisor Prof. M. Marchesi, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari.
2002-2015 Researcher at the Dept. of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari (ING-IND/31).
2014  National scientific qualification to function as associate  professor in Italian Universities (sector ING-IND/31).
2017 National scientific qualification to function as full professor in Italian Universities (sector ING-IND/31).

2015-2022 Associate professor at the Dept. of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari (ING-IND/31).

Teaching Activities
• 2001/2002, Principles of Electrical Engineering 2, 6 credits, Master degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
• 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010: Advanced Circuit theory (6 credits, Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
• 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2006/2007, 2007/2008: Dynamics of nonlinear circuits and chaos (6 credits, Master degree in in Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
• 2004/2005, 2005/2006, Circuit theory 1 (6 credits, Master degree in in Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
• 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2009/2010 Circuit theory 2 (3 credits, Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering). 

• 2011/2012 Digital and analog filters (6 credits, Master degree in in Electrical Engineering).
• 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/2018, 2018/2019  Nonlinear Systems and chaos  (6 credits, Master degree in in Electrical Engineering)

• 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024  Circuit's design for signal processing (6 credits, Master degree in in Electrical Engineering)
• 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 2022/2023, 2023/2024 Circuit theory (6 credits, Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering).

Other educational activities
• 2003/2004, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2011/2012, 2015/2016, 2018/2019, 2020/2021: course of Dynamics of non-linear systems and chaos at the PhD School in Industrial Engineering, University of Cagliari (10 hours).
• 2003/2004, 2004-2005, 2006/2007: course of Electrical Engineering Education (Circuit Theory), University of Cagliari, School of Specialization for Secondary School Teachers (30 hours).
• 2005/2006, course of Circuit analysis under sinusoidal regime, University of Cagliari, School of Specialization for Teachers of Secondary School, Course for Technical and practical teachers (40 hours).

Tutoring and Tutorials
• Circuit theory: exercises for bachelor's degree courses in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.
• Circuit theory 1: exercises for bachelor's degree courses in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.
• Circuit theory 1: "The network functions" for bachelor's degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.
• Circuit theory 2: exercises for bachelor's degree courses in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.
• Circuits and algorithms for signal processing: Tutorials for bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1997/1998, 1998/1999, 1999/2000.
• Circuits and algorithms for signal processing: a cycle of seminars on Neural Networks, degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1997/1998, 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.
• Circuits and algorithms for signal processing: tutor for test preparation, bachelor's degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, 1997/1998, 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002.

Research subjects

She is the scientific responsible of the agreement between  ENEA and University of cagliari in the framework of FP9 program for the EUROfusion work program on nuclear fusion.
-Analysis and synthesis of nonlinear dynamic systems
-Soft computing techniques
-Disruption prediction and classification for nuclear fusion
-Non destructive testing

2024, May 17th