Personal data:   Born in Ferrara the 25th of April 1968 Address: via Borgoleoni 126                       44100 - Ferrara - Italy  Home telephone: 0532-205763  Fax n°: 0532-768602 / 781810 E-Mails: 1) foddis@axpfe1.fe.infn.it                     2) ilt@ing12.unife.it

• Scientific high school diploma obtained in 1987 at "A. Roiti" high school, with score 56/60;
• Degree in Physics obtained in 1994 at Ferrara University, with score 110/110 and honours.

Subject and title of the degree thesis: Fundamental forces, check of Newton's law in geophysical scale with a superconducting gravimeter GWR.
• Master in Physics obtained in 1997 at Ferrara University developing a LABView software which controls an acoustic monitoring system on two oil pipelines in a ERG refinery in Priolo, Sicily.
• Diploma of the Training course for Technicians in Acoustics obtained in 1997 at the Engineering Department of Ferrara.
• The following “short courses” at the University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), England:
                1) Engine and Vehicle Noise & Vibration Control;
                2) Noise & Vibration advanced course;
                3) Mechanical Vibration Measurement Techniques.

• English:       Read: Excellent
                        Written: Excellent
                        Spoken: Very good
• German and French:  Scholastic

• Operating systems: WINDOWS,  MS-DOS, UNIX.
• Languages: FORTRAN, BASIC, C, HTML, VISUAL BASIC.
• Developing systems: LABVIEW 4.0 (included the GPIB/IEEE 488.2 and Serial I/O interfacing protocols), MATLAB, ACCESS 2.0, EXCEL.

April 1996 – now
Free-lance activity as software programmer; the last project was a LABView 4.0 virtual instrument for monitoring two oil pipelines to look for possible leakages (it is used in an ERG refinery in Priolo, Sicily). It was developed in collaboration with the University of Ferrara and with Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche.

October 1994 – now
Collaboration with the  private laboratory DATA PRAXIS on several techno-scientific projects and computing works (the last one is a BBS for the fish market, still operating at the Camera di Commercio di Ferrara at the ITAPAC number 25320125);

July 1997 – September 1997
Collaboration with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) of the University of Southampton (England) working on a project called "Development of a LabView 4™ Virtual Instrument to acquire digital data from a TEAC RD-135T DAT Data Recorder, using a GPIB-1284CT Parallel-IEEE 488.2 controller and a TEAC GP-350 GPIB Interface.”

January 1996 – June 1997
Collaboration with the Engineering Department of Ferrara University as supervisor of an Inter-Laboratory Test, funded by the European Community,  called "Intercomparison of laboratory measurements of airborne sound insulation of walls”.

January 1994 – September 1995
Collaboration with theCEMOTER laboratory of Ferrara (belonging to National Research Council) working on a National Instruments LABVIEW system, in order to manage several instruments particularly for the characterization of earing aids.

October-November 1995
Consultation activity in computing subject for OMBA firm (Vicenza - Italy) at its building site in Sines (Portugal).

November 1994
Participation to a scientific international expedition in Brazil for an experiment of fundamental physics during a total eclipse, as responsible of the signal processing system (the only italian researcher in the group).

Travelling, climbing, several sports (basketball, cyclism, tennis, swimming), computer.