Speaker
Description
Professor Stefano Sfarra attained a Ph.D. title in mechanical, management and energy engineering at the University of L’Aquila (UNIVAQ), Italy, in 2011. Following the achievement of the Ph.D., he was a research fellow at UNIVAQ until 2017, before becoming a researcher in October of the same year.
He carried out research and teaching periods abroad at prestigious institutions all over the world. He was also an invited-scientific researcher at Tomsk Polytechnic University (Tomsk, Russia), as well as a member of several scientific committees at international conferences.
He is also an editor of Infrastructures (MDPI), and Sensors (MDPI). Since December 2020, he is the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the Quantitative InfraRed Thermography (QIRT) Journal (Taylor & Francis). He is deeply involved in the non-destructive evaluation and characterization of materials, especially using optical and infrared vision non-destructive testing techniques, numerical simulations centered on heat transfer phenomena (by Comsol© Multiphysics), development of ad hoc scripts in Matlab©environment, and inverse thermal modelling.
In these research areas, Prof. Sfarra authored or co-authored more than 300 papers in Journals and International Conferences. He also have written seven chapters in Books. He is currently acting as a reviewer of around 50 scientific journals; he is principal investigator, collaborator and local contact person in international research projects.
He is also a member of Associazione MASTER, Associazione Italiana della Fisica Tecnica and Associazione Italiana Proprietà Termofisiche.
He received many awards, mainly focused on scientific recognition.
In October 2020, he became associate professor at UNIVAQ. He has been an adjunct professor at Laval University (Canada).
Infrared thermography for cultural heritage inspection and evaluation
During this short course, a review on the use of ‘infrared vision’ (and in particular of IRT) for the inspection of cul¬tural heritage objects is provided. In particular, a series of experiences done by the speaker together with esteemed colleagues is discussed, the contribution of mock-ups is stressed, and the main current activities of the bilat¬eral Italy-China research project for “science and technology cooperation” (Italian unit: University of L’Aquila, P.I. Prof. S. Sfarra; Chinese unit: Harbin Institute of Technology, P.I. Prof. H. Zhang), titled “sCHans – Solar loading infrared thermog-raphy and deep learning teCHniques for the noninvAsive iNSpection of precious artifacts” (promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and co-financed by the Ministry of University and Research, grant number PGR02110) is illustrated.
