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Marcello Farina was
born in Treviglio, Italy, in 1978.
He received the Master
degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 from the Politecnico
di Milano. His thesis was focused on modeling and control
of a Dish Stirling solar engine (Advisor: Prof. Sergio Bittanti).
He has worked
(December 2003-March 2004) at the Italian metrological primary Institute “Istituto Nazionale Ricerche in Metrologia” (former “Istituto Nazionale Galileo
Ferraris”), Turin (Italy) on the subject “application
of control theory to atomic clock timescale generation”.
He has been visiting
scholar (March 2005-February 2006, as Marie Curie fellow) at the Institute for
Systems Theory and Automatic Control (IST), University of Stuttgart, Germany,
under the supervision of Prof. Frank Allgöwer. He
obtained the Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2007 with grade A with a
thesis titled “Observer design and
parameter identification for mass-action biochemical reaction networks” (Advisor:
Prof. Sergio Bittanti) from Politecnico
di Milano.
He has held a Post-Doc
position at Politecnico di Milano (2007-2009).
Since November 2009 he
is Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Ricercatore a tempo determinato: November 2009-January 2011;
Ricercatore a tempo indeterminato: since February 2011).
Marcello Farina is
Marie Curie fellow, and he has been associated to the Italian National Research
council, CNR (year 2009).
Scholarhips and awards:
·
“Giorgio Quazza” Prize for
the best Master Thesis on Automatic Control at Politecnico
di Milano in 2003.
·
“Marie Curie”
fellowship from EU in the framework of the program Control Training Site (CTS),
contract number HPMT-CT-2001-
·
Sovvenzione Globale
INGENIO fellowship (Prot.
N. A0000210), from Regione Lombardia e Fondo Sociale Europeo in 2007.
·
Annual research assistantship at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di
Milano (June 2007-May 2008) for the reasearch “modeling and identification in systems biology”.
·
Two-year research assistantship at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di
Milano (June 2008-May 2010) for the research “State estimation algorithms for
distributed and large-scale systems based on moving horizon observers”.
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