DISI Seminar seminar
Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 10:30
A102 Via Sommarive, 5
Ovidio Mario Bucci
This lecture reviews the possibilities offered by the advent of Nanothecnologies for regulating the interaction between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems with unprecedented flexibility and specificity. In particular, we discuss how the exploitation of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Magnetic Fields can lead to significant advances in clinical and diagnostic applications, and to the opening of a completely new scenario: the true remote control of nanomachines and biological systems.
About the speaker
Ovidio Mario Bucci was born in Civitaquana, Italy, on November 18, 1943. He graduated summa cum laude in Electronic Engineering at Universiy of Naples in 1966 and got the Libera Docenza in Theory and Technique of Electromagnetic Fields (allowing to become a tenured university professor) in 1971. He was an Assistant Professor at the Istituto Universitario Navale of Naples, 1967–1975, then Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Naples. He was Director of the Department of Electronic Engineering, 1984–86 and 1989–90, Vice Rector of the University of Naples, 1994–2000, Director of the CNR Institute of Electromagnetic Environmental Sensing (IREA) 2001-2010. He also was President of the National Research Group of Electromagnetism, of the MTT-AP Chapter of the Centre-South Italy Section of IEEE, Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Microwaves and Antennas (CIRMA). He is the author or coauthor of more than 370 scientific papers, mainly published on international scientific journals or proceedings of international conferences. His scientific interests include scattering from loaded surfaces, reflector and array antennas, efficient representations of electromagnetic fields, near-field far-field measurement techniques, inverse problems and non invasive diagnostics, biological applications of nanoparticles and electromagnetic fields. Among others, He was a recipient of the International Award GUIDO DORSO for Scientific Research, 1996, and of the Presidential Gold Medal for Science and Culture, 1998. He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 1993, and Member of the Academia Pontaniana.
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