Raffaele PERSICO
Professori Associati
Geofisica applicata (GEOS-04/B)
Contacts
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- raffaele.persico@unical.it
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Raffaele Persico is associate professor in Geophysics at the University of Calabria. He has been researcher at CNR and fellow professor in Probability and Statistics at the International Telematic University Uninettuno. He is permanent member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference of the Ground Penetrating Radar (ICGPR) and is president of the Italian Association of the GPR (Associazione Italiana del Georadar). He was Chair of the 13th ICGPR, co-chair of the 4th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), publication chair for the 15th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium and he is vice-chair for the 10th IWAGPR conference, to be held in Malta on July 2021.
His main research activities are devoted to e.m. inverse problems, GPR data processing, GPR investigation of cultural heritage, GPR systems, TDR probes.
The most important project to which he took part were AITECH (Applied Innovation technologies for Diagnosis and Conservation of Built Heritage), PROMETEOS (PROdotti, MEtodologie e TEcnologie Originali e Sostenibili per la diagnosi, la conservazione e la comunicazione dei beni culturali) and TDRpro project (Design of Time Domain Reflectometer, within the band TOFSA). Currently, he is Chair for the Italian side of the Bilateral Italy-Malta project.
Raffaele Persico is Associate Editor of Geophysical Prospecting, Near Surface Geophysics, GPR Journal. He has also been Guest Editor of several special issues on international journals. The last one in temporal order is Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Theory and Applications, Remote Sensing, edited by Pier Matteo Barone, Raffaele Persico and Salvatore Piro, currently in progress (July, 1st, 2020).
Raffaele Persico has received the Christiaan Huygens Medal 2020 from the European Geoscience Union EGU (https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/christiaan-huygens/). He has published 4 books, 2 patents and 86 papers on international journals and 160 conference papers.
Curriculum Vitae of Raffaele Persico
Education
• Degree in Electronic Engineering, summa cum laude, achieved in 1996 at the University of Naples Federico II, with a final dissertation in Optoelectronics entitled “Contactless Characterization of Semiconductors” (tutor prof. Antonello Cutolo).
• Professional qualification achieved by the “esame di stato”, performed still at University Federico II in 1996.
• Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering achieved at Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (tutor prof. Rocco Pierri) in 1999, discussing a final dissertation entitled “Inversion algorithms for electromagnetic diagnostics: Applications to materials and buried objects".
Further formation courses
• Summer School in Boinville le Gaillard (France) on wavelets organised by the Ecole d’Ete d’Analyse Numerique in 1997.
• Course “Campi elettromagnetici: Rischi e protezione” organised by the faculties of Engineering and Medicine and Surgery of the University of Napoli Federico II, with final examination, in 2001.
Career
• Fellow Student under a research contract at Seconda Università for one year in 2000, with a final dissertation entitled “Algoritmi per la Diffusione Inversa Elettromagnetica per la Diagnostica Ottica ed alle Microonde”.
• Research Scientist at the Consortium of Research on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems (CO.RI.S.T.A.), in 2000.
• Research Scientist at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the National Council of Researches (CNR), in 2002.
• Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeological Heritage - Monuments and Sites (IBAM-CNR), in 2007.
• Research Scientist at the Institute of Science for Cultural Heritage (ISPC-CNR) in October 2019.
• Associate Professor at the University of Cosenza, from December 31, 2019 up to current date.
• Fellow Professor in Probability and Statistics at the International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU, from 2014 and up to current date.
Research projects
• “Centro di Competenza Regionale della Regione Campania per il Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale” (AMRA), for the technological transfer to enterprises of research know how relative to GPR prospecting (2002-2003).
• AITECH (Applied Innovation technologies for Diagnosis and Conservation of Built Heritage) project, financed by the Puglia region (Italy) in the framework of the Application “Realizzazione di Reti di Laboratori Pubblici di Ricerca”, published on the Official bulletin of the Puglia Region, n. 29 of the 21st February 2008. Period 1/01/2009 - 2/12/2013.
• PROMETEOS (PROdotti, MEtodologie e TEcnologie Originali e Sostenibili per la diagnosi, la conservazione e la comunicazione dei beni culturali). The project PROMETEOS has been financed by the Puglia Region in the framework of the application “Bandi per Partenariati di Ricerca”, published on the Official Bullettin of the Puglia Region n. 123 of the 4th August 2011. Period 1/01/2013 – 22/04/2014
• PON SMART CITIES, whose financing was approved on September 28th 2012. Period 1/1/2013 – 30/11/2015.
• PRIN project “Storia e Archeologia dei paesaggi rurali in Italia fra Tardoantico e Medioevo. Sistemi integrati di fonti, metodi e tecnologie per uno sviluppo sostenibile”, within which is was a member of the Research Unit “Metodologie innovative per la ricostruzione dei paesaggi di Terra d’Otranto” whose scientific responsible was Dr. Maria Teresa Giannotta of IBAM-CNR). Period 23/10/2012 – 28/02/2016
• Project DIPLOMAzia, financed by DCGS of MAE. Period 28/10/2013 – 30/11/2014.
• European Cost Action TU1208, within which Raffaele Persico has been Leader of the Project 1.1 “Design, realization and optimization of innovative GPR equipment for the monitoring of critical transport infrastructures and buildings, and for the sensing of underground utilities and voids” (http://gpradar.eu/about/activities/working-group-1.html). Period 2014-2017.
• LIEMP (Reti di Laboratori Pubblici di Ricerca: Laboratorio per l’efficienza energetica abitativa e la tutela monumentale), financed by the Puglia Region. Period 1/06/2014 – 28/02/2017
• TDRpro: Design of Time Domain Reflectometer, within the band TOFSA, financed by the University of Malta. Raffaele Persico joined a team chaired by prof. Charles Sammut of the University of Malta for this project. 2017-2018.
• Bilateral project CNR-University of Malta “Noninvasive investigations for enhancing the knowledge and the valorization of the cultural heritage”. Raffaele Persico is the Chair person for the CNR, together with Dr. Sebastiano D’Amico that is the Chair person for the University of Malta. 2018-2019.
• Progetto per “La notte dei ricercatori”, UE-H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018 (2018-2019): European Research Night - Apulia (ERN-Apulia), Grant No. 818783, EC funding: Partners: UniSalento, UniBA, PoliBA, UniFG, CNR, INFN, IIT, ENEA, IRCCS-DeBellis.
• Progetto PON: Innovazioni per l'elaborazione dei dati nel settore del Patrimonio Culturale IDEHA, finanziato dal MIUR, (project approved but not started yet).
• Bando Innonetwork Regione Puglia: Progetto: Sistema Avanzato di Monitoraggio AmbiEntale (SAGACE) codice M7X3HL2, (project approved but not started yet).
• Progetto STRIT, Strumenti e Tecnologie per la gestione del Rischio delle Infrastrutture di Trasporto, nell’ambito del progetto STRESS, 2014.
Research Activities
The research activity of Raffaele Persico has been developed in the field of the Inverse Scattering, Nondestructive Testing (NDT), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR). He has investigated both linear and nonlinear scattering models, theoretical and practical aspects related to the GPR prospecting and the GPR data processing, hardware of GPR systems (especially stepped frequency) and some aspects of TDR investigation. He has directed or taken part into many GPR measurement campaigns in Italy, Malta, Turkey and Perù, especially applied to cultural heritage, working among other things on the insertion of noninvasive imaging results within the 3D virtual reconstruction of historical monuments, so achieving virtual excavations in monuments of interest. He has also processed with advanced methods data gathered by other institutions in Italy, England, Scotland and Norway. The problems of the positioning of the instrument and of the rejection of the interferences in the framework of GPR prospecting have been afforded too.
Achievements and appointments
• National scientific habilitation in Electromagnetism of second level achieved in 2017 (Settore Concorsuale 09/F1, the habilitation holds from March 31st 2017 to March 31st 2023)
• National scientific habilitation in Geophysics of second level achieved in 2017 (Settore Concorsuale 04/A4, the habilitation holds from April 4th 2017 to April 4th 2023)
• Member of the council for the management of the Ph.D. courses (Consiglio di Dottorato) of the International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU.
• Currently President of the “Associazione Italiana del Georadar”.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the assignment of the International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar.
• Member of the Direction Committee of the European GPR Association from 2009 to 2017
• Together with his colleague Giovanni Leucci, he is the Scientific Responsible person for the Laboratory of Applied Geophysics to Archaeological and Monumental Heritage and then of the Institute of Science Applied to Cultural Heritage, up to December 31, 2019.
• President of the Committee for the Protocol between the Municipality of Lecce and the seven Institutes present on the Territory, from December 2019 up to January 2020.
• National scientific habilitation in Geophysics of first level achieved in 2020 (Settore Concorsuale 04/A4, the habilitation holds from January 14th 2020 to January 14th 2029)
Roles in National and International Conferences
• Co-Chair of the 4th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), Naples, Italy, 2007.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the XVII Italian Meeting of Electromagnetism (RINEM), Lecce, Italy, 2008.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the first Workshop on Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Management, Rome, Italy, 2008.
• General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Lecce, Italy, 2010. From that moment permanent member of the International Advisory Committee of this biennial international event.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 15th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2014.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 8th IWAGPR conference, Florence, 2015.
• Publication Chair at the 15th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium, Lecce, Italy 2015
• Convener of the session “Innovative instrumentation and data processing methods in near surface geophysics” at the EGU Meeting, together with Salvatore Piro and Neil Linford, Vienna, Austria, 2016.
• Together with other colleagues, organizer of the 35th GNGTS (Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida) Conference held in Lecce, Italy, 2016.
• Convener of the session “Innovative instrumentation and data processing methods in near surface geophysics” at the EGU Meeting, together with Salvatore Piro and Neil Linford, Vienna, Austria, 2017.
• Member of the Scientific Committee and co-organizer of a session within the conference Metrology for Archaeology 2017, Lecce, Italy, 2017.
• Convener of the session “Innovative instrumentations, techniques, geophysical methods and models for near surface geophysics, cities and transport infrastructures” at the EGU Meeting, together with, Salvatore Piro, Neil Linford, Jean Dumoulin, Jan Vilhelm, Francesco Soldovieri, Felice Carlo Ponzo, Mario Marchetti, Vienna, Austria, 2018.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 17th International Conference on Ground penetrating Radar, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 2018.
• Convener of the session “Innovative instrumentations, techniques, geophysical methods and models for near surface geophysics, cities and transportation infrastructures” at the EGU Meeting, together with, Salvatore Piro, Felice Carlo Ponzo, Mario Marchetti, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
• Convener of the sesson “Innovative instrumentations, techniques, geophysical and remote sensing methods, material characterization, models and ICT tools for the smart and resilient cities of the future, together with Ilaria Catapano, Iman Farhat, Melda Kucukdemirci, Salvatore Piro, Vincenzo Lapenna, Giuseppina Padeletti, Filippos Vallianatos.
• Vice chair of the International Workshop on Ground Penetrating Radar 2021,to be held in Valletta, Malta, in June 2021.
Within the above-mentioned conferences, Raffaele Persico has served also several times as session-Chair and member of the Jury for Awards for young researchers.
Activities as Associate Editor
Raffaele Persico is member of the Editorial Board of the following International and National journals:
• Geophysical Prospecting, ed. European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers (EAGE), impact factor at February 2018, 1.846.
• Near Surface Geophysics, ed. EAGE, impact factor at February 2018, 1.293.
• Ground penetrating Radar, ed. TU1208 GPR association.
• Mistral Service-Books, ed. Mistral
Raffaele Persico has been Guest Editor for the following special issues:
1. GPR – Tomography, Imaging and Modeling, Near Surface Geophysics, vol.6, no. 6, edited by Lorenza Crocco, Raffaele Persico, Francesco Soldovieri, 2008.
2. Archaeogeophycics: Advanced Application of GPR Method for Archaeological Prospection, Near Surface Geophysics, edited by Salvatore Piro, Brian Damiata and Raffaele Persico, 2012.
3. Innovative Microwave Devices, Methods and Applications, Radio Science, edited by Luciano Tarricone, Luca Catarinucci, Giuseppina Monti and Raffaele Persico, 2016.
4. Radar Systems for the Societal Challenges, Remote Sensing, edited by Francesco Soldovieri and Raffaele Persico, 2017.
5. Recent Multitopic Geophysical Investigations Bollettino Italiano di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, edited by Dario Slejko and Raffaele Persico, 2017.
6. Recent Progress in Ground Penetrating Radar, Remote Sensing, edited by Raffaele Persico and Fernando Teixeira, 2019.
7. Geophysics and Remote Sensing in Archaeology and Monumental Heritage, edited by Giovanni Leucci, Lara De Giorgi and Raffaele Persico, Sensors, 2019.
8. Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Theory and Applications, Remote Sensing, edited by Pier Matteo Barone, Raffaele Persico and Salvatore Piro, 2020.
Raffaele Persico has been Guest Editor for the following proceedings:
1. Proceedings of the 2007 4th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR2007, Francesco Soldovieri, Lorenzo Crocco, Raffaele Persico, editors, p. 1-308, IEEE Productions, Piscataway NJ, 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-0886-5
2. Proceedings of the 2010 XIII International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2010, Lorenzo Crocco, Luciana Orlando, Raffaele Persico, Massimiliano Pieraccini, editors, p. 1-981, IEEE Productions, Piscataway NJ, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4605-6
Seminars and didactic activities
• Nine video lessons in Probability and Statistics held at the International Telematic University Uninettuno, 2016.
• “Georadar method: basic concepts and typical applications”, within the Summer school ESA on “Remote Sensing Applications for the Study and Observation of Archaeological Sites”, 3-5 June 2013, Matera, Italy.
• “Microwave tomography for the focusing of buried targets”, seminar held at the Catholic University of Louven (Belgium) on July 5th 2014, within the XV International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
• “The First EuroGPR International School on GPR”, a course of 15 hours chaired together with Dr Alan Jones of the Pipehawk within the annual EAGE Conference of Near Surface Sensing, Athens, Greece, September 15-16h 2014.
• Three lessons in the office of Lecce of IBAM-CNR within the project DIPLOMAzia, in 2015.
• Four lessons within the Training School on Ground Penetrating Radar for Civil Engineering and Archaeology, held in Valletta, Malta, on January 25-29 2016.
• “Geophysics and Remote Sensing for Archaeology”, international school chaired together with Francesco Soldovieri and Nicola Masini, Pompei (Naples), Italy, May 9-13, 2016.
• Two lessons within the international school “Electromagnetic Modelling techniques for ground penetrating Radar”, organised by the University of Split together with the Cost Action TU1208, November 9-12, 2016.
• “Gathering and processing GPR data” tutorial held with Paolo Papeschi of IDSgeoradar and Giovanni leucci of IBAM-CNR within the 3rd Conference on metrology for archaeology, Lecce, Italy, October 23-25, 2017.
• Two lessons within the Summer School “Musei progettati, musei realizzati- fonti materiali e fonti documentarie per la conoscenza del patrimonio industriale”, San Cesario di Lecce (Italy) July 12-14, 2011.
• Fifteen hours of lesson within the formative course “Cultura e Formazione” financed by the Basilicata (Az. 7/AP/09/2009/RIF/REG CUP G35E11000240009), Potenza, Italy, September-October 2012.
• Three lessons within the national school “Scuola Nazionale Scienza e Beni Culturali, dall'Analisi Non Invasiva alla Ricostruzione 3D", organized by the University of Messina, Messina, Italy, 19-23 September 2016.
• Coordinator with Vincenzo Lapenna and Francesco Soldovieri and lecturers of three lessons within the national school “Il Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): aspetti metodologici ed applicazioni innovative nei settori della Geologia, dell’Ingegneria Civile e dei Beni Culturali”, organized by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, IBAM-CNR, IMAA-CNR, IREA-CNR, Ordine dei Geologi della Regione Basilicata, Tito scalo (PZ) May 18- 19, 2017.
• Coordinator with Paolo Papeschi and Massimo Coli and lecturer for two lessons within the national school “Il Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): aspetti metodologici e tecnologici ed applicazioni innovative”, organized by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, University of Florence, IBAM-CNR, IREA-CNR, Ordine dei Geologi della Regione Toscana, Florence, Italy, November 28-29, 2017.
• “Uso del GEOradar nelle applicazioni di Ingegneria Civile e conservazione dei Beni Architettonici ed Archeologici”, school organized by the University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy, January 29-February 1, 2018.
• Three lessons within the national school “Il Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): prospezioni integrate ed elaborazione dati”, organized by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, University of Salento, IBAM-CNR, Ordine dei Geologi della Regione Puglia, Bari, Italy, February 9-10 2018.
• Coordinator together with Prof. L. Pajewski and lecturer (two lessons) within the “Training School on Ground Penetrating Radar for civil engineering and cultural heritage management” Rome, Italy, May 14-18, 2018.
• Coordinator and lecturer of one lesson within the school “Sistemi georadar: modalità d’uso, antenne, aspetti pratici e teorici”, organized by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, IBAM-CNR, University of Trento-Eledia Research Centre, Order of the Geologists of the Veneto Region, Mestre (Venezia), Italy, September 13-14, 2018.
• Coordinator and lecturer of one lesson within the school “Raccolta ed elaborazione dati georadar: considerazioni pratiche ed applicazioni particolari”, organised by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, Centro di Formazione Tecnica Progetto PSC, IBAM-CNR, ITABC-CNR, American University of Rome, IDSgeoradar srl, Boviar srl, Modena, Italy, March 15-16 2019.
• Coordinator and lecturer of one lesson within the school “Indagini non invasive per applicazioni archeologiche: il georadar e le altre tecniche.”, organised by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, University of Palermo, IBAM-CNR, Palermo and Solunto, Italy, July 18-20, 2019.
• Coordinator of the school Tecniche di indagine non invasiva per i beni culturali, organised by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, University of Palermo, IBAM-CNR, Catania, Italy, December 11-13, 2019.
• Coordinator and lecturer for one lesson within the International School “GPR and Electromagnetics for Sensing Soil, Objects and Structures: Forward Modelling, Inversion Problems and Practical Aspects”, organised by Associazione Italiana del Georadar and sponsored by EuMA, Lecce, Italy, January 29th-February 1st, 2020.
Revision Activities
Raffaele Persico has done revisions for FIR projects, on appointment of the Italian Ministry for the Research and the University (MIUR) and for a proposal of an European Cost Action. Moreover, he is reviewer for several international journals and national and international conferences, among which:
Near Surface Geophysics (EAGE)
IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
IEEE Transaction of Antennas and Propagation
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Journal of Geophysics and Engineering (IOP)
Inverse Problems (IOP)
Journal of Optical Society of America part A (OSA)
Central European Journal of Geosciences (CEJG)
International Journal of Archaeology
Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER)
Remote Sensing (MDPI)
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computedr-Aided Engineering (Wiley)
International Journal on Antennas and Propagation (Hindawi publishing Corporation)
International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR)
International Conference on Ground penetrating Radar (GPR)
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Riunione Nazionale di Elettromagnetismo (RINEM)
Bollettino Italiano di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata, OGS
Archaeological Prospecting, Wiley on line library
Divulgative Seminars and Workshops
Raffaele Persico has co-organised and/or has given talks in several interdisciplinary workshops and educational seminaries. Among these, here the following ones are reported:
1) He chaired, together with the philosopher Giorgio Rizzo, the Seminar “Le scienze dopo un secolo di relatività. Valutazioni e prospettive”, organized by prof. Mario Signore and held in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) on June 13, 2005, on the occasion of the centenary of the theory of the special relativity.
2) He chaired the Workshop “Il Polo dei Laboratori IBAM a Lecce tra Ricerca e Innovazione: Servizi per le Istituzioni, le Imprese e il Terriotorio”, held in Lecce, Italia, in the Castle Carlo V on November 18-19 2013.
3) He was lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Seminar “Lo Scienziato che Mise in Contatto le Genti. Per il Centocinquantenario delle “equazioni” di J. C. Maxwell.”, organized by prof. Mario Signore and held in Lecce, Italy, on June 16, 2014. The Seminar was on the occasion of 150 years from the publication of the Maxwell’s equations.
4) He held the seminary “Onda su onda: un mare di frequenze e di applicazioni elettromagnetiche: Fenomenologie ondulatorie classiche” in the framework of the “Notte dei Ricercatori”, Lecce, Italy, September 27, 2019.
5) He chaired the seminary-debate “Survey ed indagini non invasive nei siti archeologici italiani: regolamenti e prospettive”, organised by Associazione Italiana del Georadar, Lecce, Italy, January 31st, 2020.
Ph.D. Courses
Raffaele Persico has been member of the Ph.D. committee (Collegio di Dottorato) of the International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU.
Raffaele Persico has been member of the Jury for the Defense of a Ph.D. Thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain La Nueve, Belgium, on October 3rd 2018 and then members of the Jury for the final disseratation on November 28th 2018. Candidate Dr Jana Jezova, title of the thesis: Toward microwave sensing of tree trunks: instrumentation and radargram interpretation.
Raffaele Persico has been co-tutor of a Ph.D. course of the XXIV cycle, entitled “La prospezione georadar nel campo dei Beni Culturali; messa a punto di nuove tecniche e tecnologie e comparazioni con sistemi tradizionali”, performer under a convention between the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the IBAM-CNR (tutor prof. Marcello Ciminale of the University of Bari, Ph.D. Student Loredana Matera). The Ph.D. course has been focused on the prototypal reconfigurable GPR devised by IBAM-CNR together with IDS Corporation and University of Florence in the framework of the project AITECH. The Ph.D. Thesis of the Ph.D. Student has been accepted for publication by Mistral Service-Books.
Raffaele Persico has been official reviewer for the PhD theses of several PhD students, in particular on appointment received by the Sapienza University of Rome and of the University of Camerino.
Degree theses
Raffaele Persico has been tutor or co-tutor of several degree theses with the International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU, the Second University of Napoli, the University Federico II of Napoli and the University of Salento. Among them, the most important have been:
1) Tomografia a microonde per la Ricostruzione di oggetti sepolti con proprietà magnetiche, candidate Silvio de Rosa, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor Dr. Francesco Soldovieri, Academic Year 2005-2006, Second University of Napoli.
2) Simulazione di antenne a spirale mediante un codice agli elementi finiti, candidate Angela Cardillo, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor prof. Adriana Brancaccio, Academic Year 2004-2005, Second University of Napoli
3) Applicazioni di algoritmi di inversione lineare per la diagnostica sub-superficiale, candidate Antonio Caianiello, tutor prof. Giovanni Leone, c-tutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2003-2004, Secondy University of Napoli.
4) Imaging 2D e inversione tomografica di dati GPR nell’area di Pontecagnano (SA), candidate Raffaele Castaldo, tutor prof. Maurizio Fedi, cotutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2005-2006, University of Napoli Federico II.
5) Applicazione alle prospezioni georadar di un algoritmo di diffusione inversa per oggetti con proprietà magnetiche, candidate Antonia Tamborino, tutor prof. Sergio Luigi Negri, co-tutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2010-2011, University of Salento
6) Studio del campo irradiato da un'antenna appoggiata su un mezzo dielettrico, candidate Franco Perrini, tutor prof. Adriana Brancaccio, co-tutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2003-2004, Second University of Napoli.
7) Ricostruzioni tomografiche in configurazione multimonostatica in condizioni realistiche” candidate Francesco Vaia, tutor Dr. Francesco Soldovieri, co-tutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2004-2005, Second University of Napoli.
8) Simulazione di antenne bow-tie per la prospezione sottosuperficiale”, candidate Antonietta D’Alterio, tutor prof. Giovanni Leone, co-tutor Raffaele Persico, Academic Year 2004-2005, Second University of Napoli.
9) Software di Acquisizione per Strumentazione Georadar, candidate Christian Boris Tchatchuoua Tchanko, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor Dr. Emmanuel Wiesbeck, Academic year 2016-2017, International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU.
10) Misure delle caratteristiche dielettriche e magnetiche di un materiale omogeneo mediante TDR, candidate Anna Costigliola, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor Dario Assante, Academic year 2016-2017, International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU.
11) Visualizzazione in tempo reale dei dati acquisiti mediante un georadar riconfigurabile prototipale, candidate Filippo Brigatti, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor Emanuel Weitschek, Academic year 2016-2017, International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU. En extract of the thesis has been successively published on Tu1208 GPR journal.
12) Un sistema di monitoraggio per il corretto posizionamento di antenne georadar ad alta frequenza, candidate Melania Rao, tutor Raffaele Persico, co-tutor Emanuel Weitschek, Academic year 2017-2018, International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU.
Achieved Awards
1) The paper “Detection of Fractures from GPR data: the case history of the cathedral of Otranto”, by G. Leucci, R. Persico e F. Soldovieri, published on Journal of Geophysics and Engineering (vol. 4, 2007) has been awarded by the same journal with the “Best Paper Award” for the best papers of the last ten years.
2) The paper “Effects of the Background Removal in Linear Inverse Scattering, IEEE Trans. on Geos. and Rem. Sens., vol. 46, n. 4, pp. 1104-1114, April 2008” has been acknowledged through an invitation to present a resume published on the CNR highlights for the biennial 2008-2009.
3) Raffaele Persico has been inserted as one of the reference authors in the on-line GPR Anthology of the European GPR Association, for which he has also cured a bibliographic selection on inverse problems applied to GPR prospecting (see. http://www.eurogpr.org/joomla/ under the curtain menu “scientific literature”)
4) His paper “R. Persico, R. Bernini and F. Soldovieri, The role of the measurement configuration in inverse scattering from buried objects under the Born approximation, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and propagation, vol. 53, n. 6, pp. 1875-1887, 2005” has been inserted in the on line bibliography of EuroGPR among the “classic papers” in the literature regarding the GPR.
5) Raffaele Persico has been awarded with the Christiaan Huygens Medal by the EGU (Geosciences Instrumentation & Data Systems Division) in 2020.
Main Measurement Campaigns
Raffaele Persico has directed or taken part to measurement campaigns on many sites of cultural interest both in Italy and abroad. Moreover, he has also elaborated data gathered by people form Italian and Foreign Universities and Research Institutions. Among the investigated monuments and the archaeological sites, the following ones are mentioned:
1) The Roman and Byzantine archaeological site of Hierapolis in Turkey
2) The Lambayeque archaeological site of Ventarron in Perù
3) The medieval archaeological site of Ballachulish in Scotland
4) The Roman villa of Baracombe in England
5) The Viking remains of Torget, in the current town of Trondhaim, in Norway
6) The entire Co-cathedral of St. John, Valletta, Malta
7) The Ninfeum of the Agrotti Botanical Garden, Floriana, Malta
8) The church of the Jesuits in Valletta, Malta
9) The cliff close to the Entufia Tower, close to the Golden Bay, Malta
10) The Madliena Tower in Pembroke, Malta
11) The court of the church of Santa Maria in Birkikara, Malta
12) The Red Tower (or St. Agatha Tower), in Malta.
13) The hall of the 500 in Palazzo Vecchio, Folrence, Italy
14) The Messapic archaeological site of Manduria (Taranto, Italy)
15) The Messapic and Roman archaeological site of Egnazia (Brindisi, Italy)
16) The Messapic archaeological site of San Vito dei Normanni (Brindisi, Italy)
17) The Messapic archaeological site of Muro Leccese (Lecce, Italy)
18) The Peucetian urban archaeological site of Ruvo di Puglia (Bari, Italy)
19) The Etruscan-Sannitic archaeological site of Pontecagnano (Salerno, Italy)
20) The Roman archaeological site of Cales (Caserta, Italy)
21) The Roman Villa of Vagnari at Gravina di Puglia (Bari, Italy)
22) The renaissance crape of the ex hospital of the Holy Spirit (Lecce, Italy)
23) The baroque church of Saint John Baptist (Lecce, Italy)
24) The baroque church of Sant’Antonio della Piazza (Lecce, Italy)
25) The area of the “pozzelle” in Zollino, Lecce, Italy
26) An area at “Masseria Glora”, in the outskirts of Zollino, Lecce, Italy
27) The ex templar Church of San Giovanni al Sepolcro (Brindisi, Italy)
28) The baroque crape of San Sebastiano (Lecce, Italy)
29) The Romanesque basilica of San Nicola (Bari, Italy)
30) The baroque basilica of Santa Croce (Lecce, Italy)
31) The Romanesque cathedral of Matera (Matera, Italy)
32) The Romanesque cathedral of Otranto (Lecce, Italy)
33) The XVIII century cathedral of Tricarico (Potenza, Italy)
34) The medieval (modernised during the Spanish domination) masonries of Gallipoli (Lecce, Italy)
35) The Matrix church of Saint John Baptist in Parabita (Lecce, Italy), of medieval origin
36) The ex chuch of the Humility in Parabita (Lecce, Italy), whose origin dates back to the XV century
37) The old town centre of Matera, in particular San Rocco square, (Matera, Italy)
38) The old town centre of Mesagne (Brindisi, Italy)
39) The Church of the Purgatory in Gravina di Puglia (Bari, Italy)
40) The Lucan archaeological site of Timmary (Matera, Italy)
41) The Lucan and Oscan-Sannitic archaeological site of Oppido Lucano (Potenza, Italy)
42) The cathedral of Gravina di Puglia and the relative “Soccorpo” in Gravina di Puglia (Bari, Italy)
43) The Roman archaeological site of the late antique age of Cutrofiano (Lecce, Italy)
44) The area of the railway of Montalto (Cosenza), investigated for preventive archaeology purposes.
45) The medieval remains of Contrada Malcantone, near Otranto (Lecce, Italy)
46) The area surrounding the chapel of Santa Maria di Vereto, Patù (Lecce, Italy)
47) The Sactuary of San Pancrazio in Albano Laziale, Rome, Italy
48) The entire co-cathedral of St. John (main nave, all the lateral chapels excluded the chapel of Aragon already previously prospected and included the chapel of the Grand Masters), Valletta, Malta
49) Two areas in the Roman archaeological site of Aquinum, in Aquino, Frosinone, Italy
50) Four areas within the Greek archaeological site of Gela, Caltanissetta, Italy.
51) The three rupestrian churches of San Falcione, Sant’Agnese and Madonna delle Croci, in the outskirts of Matera, Italy.
Patents
1. N. Masini, R. Persico, F. Soldovieri, “Sistema GPR stepped frequency riconfigurabile”, Italian Patent n. 0001395231 of September 5th 2012.
2. R. Persico, G. Leucci, G. Quarta, M. De Donatis, G. Gennarelli, F. Soldovieri, “Sistema GPR per la prospezione di Colonne”, Italian Patent n. 0001428337 of April 24th 2017.
Invited Talks and/or papers
1) R. Persico, Tempo della fisica e tempo dell’anima. Due tempi o due modalità di un tempo unico? Seminario tenuto presso l’Accademia degli Studi Italo Tedeschi di Merano in occasione del convegno su “Tempo della scienza, tempo della storia, tempo dell’Uomo”, 2004.
2) R. Persico, Il Progresso Scientifico: Alcune Valutazioni e Prospettive nel centenario della teoria della Relatività Ristretta, Idee, Anno XXI, n. 61, pp. 33-41, January-April 2006
3) N. Masini , M. Ciminale , R. Lasaponara, R. Persico, Integrated approach to archaeogeophysics: methodological issues, applications and new perspectives, Proc. of 19th International Geophysical Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, November 2011.
4) R. Persico, F. Soldovieri, GPR and Microwave Tomography in Archaeology Prospecting and Cultural Heritage Diagnostics, Proc. of 19th International geophysical Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, November 2011.
5) R. Persico, F. Soldovieri, Recent Issues Relevant to GPR Prospecting, Proc. EMTS, August 2010, Berlin, Germany.
6) R. Persico, F. Soldovieri, Dati del georadar facili da interpolare, Hilights of CNT for the years 2008-2009, page 118, edited by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
7) R. Persico, J. Sala, F. Soldovieri, “Linear methods for GPR data processing on large scale, The Sixth International Conference on “Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulations”, Antalya (Turkey), May 21-26 2012.
8) R. Persico Presentation of the book Introduction on Ground Pentrating Radar: Inverse Scattering and data processing, at the EGU Assembly, Vienna, April 28th 2014.
9) R. Persico, Le equazioni di Maxwell: un crocevia della scienza e non solo, Idee, ed. Milella, in print, 2015.
10) R. Persico Presentation of the book Introduction on Ground Penetrating Radar: Inverse Scattering and data processing, within the XV International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, July, 4th 2014.
Books
1) R. Persico, Introduction to Ground Penetrating Radar: Inverse Scattering and data processing. Wiley, 2014, ISBN 9781118305003.
2) R. Persico, A. Provenzano, C. Trela, M. Sato, K. Takahashi, S. Arcone, S. Koppenjan, L.G. Stolarkzyk, E.C. Utsi, S. Ebihara, K. Wada, E. Pettinelli, L. Pajewski, Recommendations for the safety of people and instruments in GPR and Near Surface Geophysical Prospecting, EAGE, 2015, ISBN 9789462821620.
3) Catalogue of GPR test sites, edited by L.Pajewski, R. Persico, X. Derobert, ISBN 9788888173009; DOI: 10.978.8888173/009, 2017.
4) Innovative Instrumentation and Data Processing Methods in Near Surface Geophysics, edited by R. Persico, S. Piro and N. Linford, Elsevier, 2018. ISBN 978-0-12-812429-1.
Chapters of books
1) F. Soldovieri, L. Crocco, R. Persico, "Tomografia a microonde mediante elaborazione di dati georadar", in Spazio tecnologico della ricerca: Ricognizione delle tecnologie per il patrimonio culturale,a cura di A. Ferrari e P. Vigato, UNI Service Editrice, 2007, ISBN/ISSN: 8861780997.
2) R. Persico, La diagnostica di strutture e reperti impostata come problema elettromagnetico inverso, in “Il Dialogo dei saperi-Metodologie integrate per i Beni Culturali”, ISBN: 9788849519112, 2010.
3. G. Leucci, N. Masini, R. Persico, F. Grasso, “Prospezioni Georadar nella ex Chiesa di San Sebastiano a Lecce”, in “Le Pentite di San Sebastiano” sottotitolo. Arte, devozione e carità a Lecce, Edizioni Esperidi, Monteroni di Lecce, Italy, ISBN 978-88-97895-11-4, 2013
4. R. Persico, M. Biscione, L. Matera, N.Masini, “Technological Innovation for the conservation and security of the Cultural Heritage”, in A Decade for Centuries edited by Daniele Malfitana, ISBN 978-88-89375-10-5, Catania, Italy, 2014.
5. E. Geraldi, G. Leucci, N. Masini, R. Persico, “On-Site non invasive diagnostics and monitoring for the study, conservation and restoration of historical built heritage”, in A Decade for Centuries edited by Daniele Malfitana, ISBN 978-88-89375-10-5, Catania, Italy, 2014.
6. Guido Manacorda, Raffaele Persico, Howard F. Scott, Design of Advanced GPR Equipment for Civil Engineering Applications, in Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar, edited by A. Benedetto and L. Pajewski, Springer, pp. 3-39, ISBN: 978-3-319-04812-3, 2015.
7. Motoyuki Sato, Raffaele Persico, Ground Penetrating Radar : technologies and data processing issue for applications, within the volume “Sensing the Past” edited by Nicola masini and Francesco Soldovieri, Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-50518-3.
8. R. Persico, A. Cataldo, E. De Benedetto, Time domain reflectrometry: Current uses and new possibilities, in “Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics: Instrumentation, Application and Data Processing Methods”, Elsevier, 2018. ISBN 978-0-12-812429-1.
9. E. Eide, N. Linford, R. Persico, J. Sala, Advanced SFCW GPR systems, in “Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics: Instrumentation, Application and Data Processing Methods”, Elsevier, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12-812429-1.
10. R. Persico, GPR data acquisition and processing Part 1: basic theory, in Multidisciplinary Approaches to Study and Preserve Cultural Heritage, edited by Sebastiano D’Amico, Springer, in print, 2020.
11. R. Persico, GPR data acquisition and processing Part 2: some case histories, in Multidisciplinary Approaches to Study and Preserve Cultural Heritage, edited by Sebastiano D’Amico, Springer, in print, 2020.
Raffaele Persico has pubblished about 85 papers on journals and 160 communications to conferences. For more details on this please see the session "Pubblicazioni".
Main bibliographic indexes after Google Scholar, updated to May 12th 2020
indexed works 268
quotations: 2239
h-index: 29
g-index: 42
hI, norm 14
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