Primary activity: Optical Diagnostics for Cutural Heritage
-Study and development of optical instrumentations, new measurement methodologies, analysis and visualization of digital data.

Image Analysis
– IR and color high definition reflectography
– Multispectral UV fluorescence
– Iperspectral high definition imaging
– Thermography

3D survey
– Triangulation Methods
– Projection Methods
– Conoscopic micro-profilometry
– Time-of-flyght methods
– Photogrammetry

Data analysis
– Processing of imaging and 3D survey data
– Data integration and visualization


Main experiences acquired: Optical Diagnostics for Cutural Heritage (from 1998)
-Study and development of optical instrumentations, new measurement methodologies, analysis and visualization of digital data.

Image Analysis
– IR and color high definition reflectography
– Multispectral UV fluorescence
– Iperspectral high definition imaging
– Thermography

3D survey
– Triangulation Methods
– Projection Methods
– Conoscopic micro-profilometry
– Time-of-flyght methods
– Photogrammetry

Data analysis
– Processing of imaging and 3D survey data
– Data integration and visualization

Nonlinear Optics (from 1993 to 1998)
– Experimental study on 2D pattern formation in optical nonlinear system. Selection and competition among different symmetry structures. Mode locking and phase dynamics in pattern selection.

Quantum Optics (1993)
– Study on the phase locking in a distribuited coupling three slab CO2 laser

Applied Optics (from 1990 to 1993)
– Study and development of an optical instrument for the granulometric analysis of mineral particles in the range 5-500 microns (contract SIM Italian Mines Society)
– Study and development of an optical tachimeter for car velocity measurement (contract CRF FIAT Research Center)

Vision Science (1990)
– Study on: the display legibility, the fuctional visual field definition, the image quality and the color vision.

Thermal fluid convection (from 1988 to 1990)
– Experimental study of the symmetry transitions and the defects role in the Raileigh-Bénard pattern formation.
– Experimental study on the relation among the temperature field fluctuation spectra in turbulent regimes in the Raileigh-Bénard convection.

Research Groups:
Heritage Science

Others Funded Projects in which he/she participates:
Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 63
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 58
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 40
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 4
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 17
  –   Abstract, are: 32

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2024-04-14
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 142
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 21.852
  –   H-INDEX: 22   G-INDEX: 52   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 10 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor