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Marcello D'Amore |
Marcello D'Amore was born in Mesagne (South Italy) in 1942. He received the degree in Electrical Engineering in 1966 and the post-graduate degree in nuclear engineering in 1970, from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From 1967 until 1969, he served the army in aeronautics and then was a researcher at the Center for Nuclear Studies (CNEN) in Rome. He was appointed assistant at the University of Rome in 1970, assistant professor in 1974 and full professor of Electrotechnics in 1980. He was the first head of the Electrical Engineering Department at "La Sapienza" from 1983 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1995, and Director of the Ph.D. course of Electrical Engineering from 1984 until 1985. He presently teaches the courses of electrotechnics and electromagnetic compatibility for the degree in electrical engineering. He is President of the Electrical Engineering Degree Committee and is Director of the EMC Master since 1999.
At the beginning of his research activity, his main interests focused on the study of electromagnetic interference radiated from the corona phenomenon on high-voltage lines; he also developed procedures for the simulation and analysis of the propagation phenomena of impulsive currents on multiconductor transmission lines above a dissipative ground. The developed models have been used successively for the analysis of wide-spectrum signal propagation on power line networks. During this period, he has been in touch with members of the IEEE Power Society Sub-Committee "Corona and Field Effects", and in particular with Professor Janischewskyi, against whom he played a very strenuous table-tennis match at the University of Toronto, similar to the one he played against a young Chinese researcher during the '92 IEEE EMC Symposium in Beijing.
He has been coordinator of numerous research programs supported by the Ministry of the University, the National Research Council (CNR), ENEL, ENEA and several Industries. He has been the first President of the National Group of Electro-technics, from 1984 until 1990, a scientific referee of the European Commission for the evaluation of scientific projects within the "Science" Program from 1985 until 1991, and within the "Training and Mobility of Researchers" Plan in 1995. He has been member of the National Committee nos.35 and 36 of CIGRE, and of the IEEE Sub-Committee "Corona and Field Effects" from 1980 until 1990.
The acquired expertise about the transmission line theory was the basis of numerous research projects on EMC topics concerning in particular the susceptibility of complex electrical networks, with non linear loads, excited by EMP sources. The interest aroused in the EMC community by the studies developed in both the frequency- and time-domains is demonstrated by the Best Paper Award that he received in 1993 and 1997 at the IEEE International Symposium on EMC.
He has also devoted strong effort to research concerning the shielding of low and radio-frequency EM fields. The paper concerning the shielding of power frequency magnetic field received the Best Paper Award during the 1997 International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering in Montreal. The research studies concerning the shielding have also been focused on the characterization of the EM performances of composite materials for aircraft applications. Presently he is involved in a research program concerning the certification by EM simulation of an aircraft made of metallic and composite material, stricken by a direct lightning.
Marcello has been Chairman of the International Symposia, EMC ROMA '94, '96, '98. The first international symposium on EMC was organized successfully in Rome in 1994, thanks to the great development of the EMC industry in the early 90s, to the experience that he acquired in the management of the EMC European Project, and to the encouragement coming from numerous EMC research groups. The success allowed the organization of the symposia in 1996 and 1998. The obtained results have also been reached thanks to the collaboration of the Pro-fessors participating in the European Project, and to Dr. Motohisa Kanda, Dr. Fred Tesche and Professor James Wait. From Dr. Kanda, Marcello has also received useful suggestions in order to improve his tennis game. Successively, after the third conference, EMC ROMA became EMC EUROPE in order to move around in Europe.
He participates with Professors Marvin and Catrysse on the European Project Erasmus, which supports student stages at the Universities of Rome, York and Oostenda. He is has been Chairman of the EMC Group of the National Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (AEI) since 1992, and of the CEI Committee "Human Exposure to High Frequency EM Fields" since 1993. He founded the Inter-Universities Center of EMC Research, in which the Universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Ancona, and L'Aquila, together with the Polytechnic of Turin and the Naples Naval Institute participate.
He joined the IEEE in 1972 and was elected IEEE Fellow in 1990 "for the development of simulation and analysis models to evaluate transmission line corona on communication channel performance." He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC; he was guest editor and co-editor of the Special Issues of the IEEE Transactions on EMC entitled, respectively, "EMC Research in Italy" (1996) and "Lightning" (1998). He is the author of more than one hundred scientific papers published in international journals or in the proceedings of international symposia, and of a two-volume book of electrotechnics.
Marcello is married and has two daughters; his wife and the eldest daughter are judges, the youngest one is a lawyer. This explains the reason why Marcello at home is always in the minority. According to Marcello, he is "a good tennis player, a slow down-hill skier, a discrete dancer, and a mediocre singer." EMC