Curriculum vitae et studiorum

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1 Curriculum vitae et studiorum Personal informations Surname First name Address Farinelli Ruben via Gramicia 32, I 44100, Ferrara, Italy Telephone Mobile: E mail Citizenship Italian farinelli@fe.infn.it Date of birth August, 1, 1975 Mother tongue Name and address of employer Other languages Italian INAF IASFC, via U. La Malfa 153, I 90146, Palermo, Italy Physics Department, Ferrara University via Saragat 1, I 44100, Ferrara, Italy English: Excellent level French: Average level Post doc experience 2011 Position held Non tenure track research position on SFXTs at INAF IASFC, Palermo, Italy Non tenure track research position in High Energy Astrophysics at the Physics Department of Ferrara University, Italy Main field of research X ray Binaries Gamma Ray Bursts

2 Main activities and responsibilities Data reduction and analysis of observations performed with X ray satellites (RXTE, BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, Swift) Magneto hydrodynamical simulations of the boundary layer of accretion disks in X ray binary systems hosting a neutron star or a black hole using FLASH (joint project with team at UNAM, Mexico) Radiative transfer problems in X ray binaries and Gamma Ray Bursts: theory, numerical solutions and Montecarlo simulations Development of numerical models for the XSPEC package CompTB already available at website Other models GRBCOMP for prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (Titarchuk et al. 2011, ApJ submitted, Frontera et al. 2011, in prep.) COMPMAG for cylindrical accretion onto polar cap of magnetized NS (Farinelli et al. 2011, in prep.) Membership Peer review activities Member of the scientific team of the DUAL mission, proposed in response to the ESA second Cosmic Vision call Referee of Astronomy & Astrophysics, PASJ and Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Education and training Date December 20, 1999 Title awarded Graduation in Astronomy at the Bologna University Title of the thesis Osservazioni con HST del nucleo dell'ammasso globulare NGC 2808 Evaluation 110/110 Cum Laude Advisor Prof. Pierluigi Battistini Co advisors Prof. Flavio Fusi Pecci Dott. Michele Bellazzini Date January 29, 2003 Title awarded PhD in Physics at the Ferrara University Title of the thesis Spectral study of Low Mass X Ray Binaries with BeppoSAX Evaluation Very good Advisor Prof. Filippo Frontera External committee member Prof. Luigi Stella

3 Official University Courses Academic year 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08 Faculty Engineering, Ferrara University Position help Contract Professor Title of the course Numerical applications of Classical Mechanics Academic year 2005/06 Faculty Pharmacy, Ferrara University Position held Contract Professor Title of the courses Preliminary Mathematics Preliminary Physics Academic year 2007/08 Faculty Physics, Ferrara University Position held Contract Professor Title of the course High Energy Astrophysics Students advisor activities at the Physics Department of the Ferrara University 2007/ / /03 Comptonization in ultra strong magnetic fields: a theoretical and numerical approach Identificazione con INTEGRAL di sorgenti serendipity viste con lo strumento PSD a bordo di BeppoSAX La natura delle binarie X di piccola massa ad alta luminosita': il caso di GX 3+1 osservata con INTEGRAL

4 Lecturer activity to PhD Students Ferrara, May 2010 Nizza, September 2010 Invited lecture for ICRANet/IRAP PhD Invited lecture for Erasmus Mundus IRAP PhD Informatics skills and competences Operating system Linux High level knowledge of the features of Linux, including hard disk partitioning, system configuration and upgrades, networking, source and binary S/W installation, scripting High level knowledge and managing of the astronomical FITS file format High level programming with C and Perl languages also using support from the CFITSIO and Gnu Scientific Library Astronomical software: FTOOLS, XSPEC, XIMAGE, XRONOS Graphical tools: IDL, QDP, GIMP, GNUPLOT Basic knowledge of HTML and Bash Operating system Windows Frequent use of Powerpoint and Word Joint national and international approved scientific proposals for funds and satellite observations 2009, PRIN MIUR Gamma Ray Bursts: dai progenitori alla Fisica del processo dell'emissione "prompt" P.I. Filippo Frontera 2007, PRIN INAF Bulk Motion Comptonisation models in X ray binaries: from phenomenology to physics P.I. Massimo Cocchi

5 1. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (A08), 2010 (Co PI), Data rights for To0 The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J : from A to Z 2. Chandra Proposal ID # (AO11), 2009 (Co PI) Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 2 x 20 ksec (ToO) 3. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO7), 2009 (Co PI) The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J :from A to Z Key Programme Observation 4. Chandra Proposal ID # (AO11), 2009 (Co PI) Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 2 x 20 ksec (ToO) 5. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO7), 2009 (Co PI) The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J :from A to Z Key Programme Observation Role: Co PI 6. Chandra Proposal ID # (AO10), 2008 (Co PI) Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 20 ksec (ToO) 7. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO6), 2008 (Co PI) Hard X ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs in the Galactic Centre Key Programme Observation 8. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO6), 2008 (Co PI) Hard X ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs in the Galactic Disk Key Programme Observation 9. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO6), 2008 (Co PI) Hard X ray emission from Cyg X 2 Key Programme Observation 10. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO5), 2007 (Co PI) Hard X ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs Key Programme Observation 11. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO5), 2007 (Co PI) Hard X ray emission from Cyg X 2 Key Programme Observation 12. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO 5 Key Programme 2), 2007 (PI) Searching with INTEGRAL for possible counterparts of unresolved X ray sources observed with the PDS onboard BeppoSAX North Ecliptic Pole Key Program 13. Chandra Proposal ID # (AO9), 2007 (Co PI) Investigating New Integral sorgenti with Chandra Observing time: 20 ksec (ToO) 14. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO4), 2006 (Co PI) Hard Xray emission from persistent NS LMXBs Key Programme Observation 15. RXTE Proposal ID #90022, 2004 (Co PI) Persistent bright LMXBs in the Galactic plane Observing time: 252 ksec 16. RXTE Proposal ID #90022, 2003 (Co PI) Persistent bright LMXBs in the Galactic plane Observing time: 72 ksec

6 Oral contributions to international meetings Meeting place and date Title of the presentation 12th Italian Korean Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics ICRANET Pescara July 4 8, 2011 Invited talk Upscattering spectral formation model for the prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts IASF Bologna September 8, 2010 Invited talk On the X ray and gamma ray emergent spectrum of super Eddington explosion of very massive stars. Application to spectral appearances of gamma ray bursts CNOC Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti Santa Margherita di Pula (CA), Italy September 22 25, 2009 The 12 th Marcel Grossman Meeting Paris, France July 12 12, 2009 The X ray Universe 2008 Granada, Spain May 27 30, th CNOC (Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti) San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy September 11 14, th Italian Sino Workshop International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Pescara, Italy July 20 29, 2007 INTEGRAL Consortium Meeting INTEGRAL Science Data Center Geneva, Switzerland April 17 18, 2007 Comptonization in ultra strong magnetic fields. Numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation and application to the neutron star case Transition layer in accretion disk around compact objects as origin of production of hard X ray emission A new Comptonization model for low magnetized accreting neutron stars in LMXBs Transition layers around compact objects (black holes and neutron stars): Evolution of their hydrodynamical structure and size as a function of the mass accretion rate Transition layers around compact objects (black holes and neutron stars): Evolution of their hydrodynamical structure and size as a function of the mass accretion rate A new Comptonization model for XSPEC: first results on a sample of LMXBs

7 11 th Marcel Grossman meeting on General Relativity Berlino, Germany July 23 29, th INTEGRAL Workshop "The obscured Universe" Moscow, Russia July 2 8, 2006 The multicolored landscape of compact objects and their explosive origin Cefalu', Italy June 11 24, 2006 Internal INTEGRAL Science Workshop ESTEC, The Netherlands January 18 21, th CNOC (Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti) Padova, Italy December 2 4, th INTEGRAL Workshop "The INTEGRAL Universe" Monaco di Baviera, Germany February 16 20, 2004 Evolution of X ray spectra of Neutron Star LMXBs: two blackbody like components as a signature of NS, accretion disk and transient hard X ray tails as a Comptonization signature Average hard X ray emission from neutron star LMXBs: a view with INTEGRAL The X ray spectrum of the bursting atoll source 4U observed with INTEGRAL Two years of INTEGRAL Core Program observations of the bright bursting LMXBs GX 3+1: discovery of a variable non thermal comptonization component Long time averaged high energy spectral properties of a sample of LMXBs observed with INTEGRAL INTEGRAL observations of four Neutron Star Low mass X ray Binaries: GX 3+1, GX 354 0, GX 349+ and the Rapid Burster

8 Scientific divulgation Liceo Classico Celio Rovigo 2005 Liceo Scientifico P. Paleocapa Rovigo May 5, 2006 Accademia dei Concordi Rovigo, December Lectures of General Astronomy Public conference entitled Sapere Scientifico e Formazione dello studente europeo Invited talk La ricerca scientifica, oggi, nelle esperienze degli ex alunni del Paleocapa Celebrations for 20 years of the Rovigo Astrophyl Group Invited talk L'Universo alle alte energie: storia dell'astrofisica dei raggi X