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EMCS President Joe Butler presents a "Certificate of Recognition" to Salvatore Celozzi for his contributions to Technical Committee 9 on Computational Electromagnetics. Mr. Celozzi received the award at the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Washington, DC. |
Salvatore Celozzi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1964. With the goal of receiving a sound theoretical basis, he began pursuing a Physics degree, then, after two years, changed to Electrical Engineering, getting the degree cum laude in 1988, from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". His thesis was on signal transmission on multiconductor power cable networks. During his first two years at the University, he had the privilege to be a student of Professor Luciano De Vito, an outstanding educator and mathematician, whose impressive lectures he has never forgotten.
In those years, an academic career became an attractive alternative to the professional activity of his father and grandfather, who were both electrical engineers. After the degree, he spent 15 months in the Army Corps of Engineering as a lieutenant assigned to the wire-guided missiles section.
He started to collaborate with professors Mauro Feliziani and Marcello D'Amore. Then he got his Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering. His doctors thesis was on the direct time-domain analysis of multiconductor line networks. In that period he became indebted and grateful to professor George Costache and Dr. Fred Tesche, for their kind availability and willingness to assist a young, inexperienced and broken-English-speaking researcher.
Salvatore won the competition to become Researcher in 1991 and since the academic year 1989-90 he has been involved in teaching activities for the courses of Electrotechnics for degrees in Electrical, Avionic and Environmental Engineering. In 1998 he became associate professor of Electrotechnics, at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Initially, his research activity was addressed to the development of accurate simulation models of multiconductor cables and finite element codes for the solution of EMC problems. Then, he started to consider shielding his main interest, according to his
I. All electrical things are EMC suffering.
II. Electromagnetic fields are the cause of EMC suffering.
III. Freedom of EMC suffering consists in the complete extinguishing of EM fields.
IV. SHIELDING constitutes one method for reducing EM fields.
He thinks that his major contributions to shielding theory have been the evaluation of the shielding effectiveness in IEEE 299 loop-to-loop configuration in exact form, putting in evidence the limits and the errors of the analogy with transmission lines (the paper was presented in 1998 at the IEEE Symposium held in Denver and won the Best Paper Award), and the time domain analysis of ferromagnetic shields under near field excitation, modelling hysteresis.
Also of some interest has been the explanation of the reasons why it may happen that, at power frequency, aluminium is more effective than high permeability materials (the paper was given at the International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering in 1997 and was awarded as Best Paper for the EMC sub-topic).
He has published nearly 70 papers, most of them in reviewed journals or in proceedings of international conferences, and two books of exercises of Electrotechnics, written in collaboration with professors Andreotti, Fabricatore and Verolino, all belonging to the University of Naples Federico II.
During the years Salvatore has participated in a number of EMC research projects coordinated by professor D'Amore, in collaboration with either academic and/or industrial partners. Now he is involved in two projects concerning the mitigation of EMI inside the Parliament Building and the simulation of the electromagnetic pollution due to the high-speed railway system under construction in Italy.
Salvatore has been an IEEE member since 1991 and he is now a Senior Member. His IEEE memberships include the EMC, Antennas and Propagation and Magnetics Societies. He founded the EMC Chapter of Central and South Italy Section in 1997, serving as Chair since then. In 2000, at the IEEE Symposium held in Washington D. C., he was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for his contribution to the activities of the TC-9 Technical Committee on Computational Electromagnetics. He also chaired sessions at the Austin (1997), Denver (1998) and Seattle (1999) IEEE International EMC Symposia, and is a member of TC-4.
In the past, from 1995 to 2000, he served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility for papers related to shielding, because of the reciprocal esteem and friendship with the Editor-in-Chief, the late Dr. Motohisa Kanda.
He is Vice-Chairman of the International Symposium EMC EUROPE 2002, to be held in Sorrento, Southern Italy, on September 9-13, 2002.
Salvatore is happily married to Michela, Judge of the Military Court. They enjoy travelling around the world and listening to classic music (Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms are their favourite composers). Salvatore may be reached at celozzi@elettrica.ing.uniroma1.it EMC