Associate professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali – Università degli studi di Cagliari – Italy

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL RECORD

February 2023

National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor conferred by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes.

02/11/2023-present

Associate professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali – Università degli studi di Cagliari – Italy

01/01/2006-1/11/2022

Assistant professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali – Università degli studi di Cagliari – Italy

01/03/2002-31/12/2005

Assistant professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica e Materiali – Università degli studi di Cagliari – Italy

15/07/1999 – 28/02/2002

Post-doc researcher at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica e Materiali - Università degli studi di Cagliari – Italy

15/05/2000

PhD degree in Chemical Engineering awarded from Università di Pisa (Italy).

April 2001

Visiting scholar at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico City, Mexico)

July 2004 

Master degree (five-years degree) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cagliari. Graduated summa cum laude 

TEACHING ACITIVITY AT UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI

From a.y. 2002/2003 to a.y. 2009/2010 

Course Dinamica e Controllo dei Processi Chimici(Dynamics and Control of Chemical Processes) for the master’s degree programme in Chemical Engineering (6 ECTS)

From a.y. 2006/2007 to a.y. 2009/ 2010

One module of the course Termodinamica Tecnica(Technical Thermodynamics)for the bachelor’s degree programme in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (3 ECTS).

From a.y. 2014/2015 to a.y. 2015/2016  

Course Advanced Systems of Process Control for the master’s degree programme in Chemical and Process Engineering (9 ECTS)

From a.y. 2016/2017 -presenti

Course Advanced Systems of Process Control for the master’s degree programme in Chemical and Engineering and Biotechnological Processes (9 ECTS)

From a.y. 2005/2006 to a.y.  2015/2016 

One module of the course Sistemi non lineari e caos for the PhD course in Industrial Engineering (2 ECTS)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The main research topics are summarized below:

- Application of techniques based on neural networks for the reconstruction of chaotic time series, for the development of inferential systems, modeling of chemical and biochemical processes, development of nonlinear control systems.

- Development of estimators, such as the geometric observer and the extended Kalman filter, for the reconstruction of the states of a system. The estimators have been applied to distillation columns, crystallization and polymerization processes, chemical and biochemical reactors.

- Development of software sensors for online monitoring of non-measurable (or difficult-to-measure) variables, such as crystal size distribution during a crystallization process and rheological properties.

- Mathematical modeling, dynamic analysis, monitoring and control of activated sludge treatment plants.

- Mathematical modeling and characterization of the effect of noise (intended as model uncertainty or as the effect of fluctuations present in a real system) on mathematical models describing the behavior of typical chemical and biochemical processes. 

- Mathematical modeling, dynamic analysis, monitoring and control of an anti-solvent crystallization system.

- Dynamic analysis and process control for the separation of multicomponent mixtures.

- Analysis of experimental data and modeling of degradation processes for the removal of pollutants.

Number of Scopus indexed documents = 73, H-index = 15, No. of citations = 562 (Author ID 6602887001, values updated on 21/04/2023).

 

(Update 21/04/2023)