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David Orlando Rodriguez Duarte

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Ricercatore a tempo determinato Legge 240/10 art.24-a
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni (DET)

  • Componente Centro Interdipartimentale PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab

Profilo

Keywords

Antennas and propagation
Applied electromagnetics
Microwave imaging

Biografia

He works toward a Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), with the applied electromagnetics group. He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow involved in the modeling and designing microwave imaging systems for cerebrovascular diseases as part of the European project EMERALD. His research interest includes antenna design and microwave imaging systems for medical applications.

Settore scientifico disciplinare

IINF-02/A - Campi elettromagnetici
(Area 0009 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione)

Competenze

Settori ERC

PE7_6 - Communication technology, high-frequency technology
PE7_11 - Components and systems for applications (in e.g. medicine, biology, environment)
PE7_3 - Simulation engineering and modelling

SDG

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Reti di ricerca

  • EMERALD (2018-2021). Partecipazione

Didattica

Collegi dei Corsi di Studio

Insegnamenti

Corso di laurea magistrale

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Ricerca

Dottorandi

  • Francesco Ardo'. Corso in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (41o ciclo, 2026-in corso)
  • Alex Ramiro Masaquiza Caiza. Corso in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (40o ciclo, 2024-in corso)
    Antennas, electromagnetic devices, propagation and radars
    Biomedical devices and applications
    Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) and EM simulation
  • Martina Gugliermino. Corso in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (39o ciclo, 2023-in corso)
    Argomento della ricerca: Studio campi EM in medicina: caratterizzazione materiali per phantom e algoritmi monitoraggio ictus.
    Antennas, electromagnetic devices, propagation and radars
    Biomedical devices and applications

Altre attività e progetti di ricerca

Applied electromagnetics for microwave sensing, imaging, and bio-integrated systems. This research line focuses on the development of electromagnetic methods, devices, and measurement strategies for sensing, imaging, and monitoring complex lossy media, including biological tissues, biomimicking materials, agro-industrial samples, plants, and biohybrid systems.

The activity combines antenna and microwave device design, near-field measurements, dielectric characterization, S-parameter calibration, numerical modeling, and inverse-scattering methods. Particular attention is given to the design of robust and experimentally validated microwave systems capable of operating in realistic scenarios, where the target under investigation is heterogeneous, dispersive, lossy, and often only partially known.

In the biomedical field, this research includes microwave sensing and imaging approaches for medical applications, with emphasis on brain monitoring and stroke follow-up. The objective is to exploit the dielectric contrast between healthy and pathological tissues to develop non-ionizing, portable, and potentially low-cost technologies that can complement existing diagnostic and monitoring tools.

In the agro-industrial and environmental fields, the research explores microwave-based sensing strategies for monitoring materials, biological samples, and complex organic media. These activities are oriented toward non-invasive characterization, quality control, process monitoring, and sustainable sensing solutions.

A growing part of this research line focuses on bio-integrated electromagnetic systems and living antennas. This direction investigates how living organisms and biological structures, such as plants, can be integrated with electromagnetic and bioelectronic interfaces to act as sensing, communicating, or responsive elements. The long-term vision is to develop natural technology integration strategies in which living systems are not only monitored by external devices but become active components of distributed sensing and communication platforms.

Overall, the research aims to connect applied electromagnetics, microwave engineering, biomedical sensing, agro-industrial monitoring, and bio-integrated technologies into a unified framework for sensing and interacting with complex living and non-living systems.

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