Claudia Arcidiacono

Biography

In 1993 he graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Catania with 110 votes in 110 and praise and proposals for the IRFIS awards and the Order of Engineers of the Province of Catania. In December 1993 he obtained the Licensing for the Engagement Profession and joined the Engineer Register of the Province of Catania. Since November 1993 he has collaborated with the main ongoing research at the Department of Construction and Territory of today's DiGeSA department of the University of Catania, contributing both to the theoretical insights and to the setting up and development of experimental activities, participating in the teaching activity and contributing to the enhancement of scientific and laboratory equipment. Since December 1994 he has been a member of the IAIA (Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering) and was Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Association for the four year period 2006-2009. As part of the EU Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) research program, it has been included in the joint publications program and participated in the mobility program by conducting a study and research stay from March to May 1996 at the DLO Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (IMAG-DLO) in Wageningen in the Netherlands. In 1998 he obtained the title of Doctor of Research in "Agricultural Construction and Landscape Design". Temporary technical worker within the POM Project for the Management of University Diplomas, from 16/09/98 to 15/10/01. Researcher from 1/8/2000 to 31/07/2001 regarding the research program "Soilless cultivation systems for the innovation of the production process in Sicilian sericulture". University Researcher from November 1, 2002 to November 30, 2006. Since December 1, 2006 he is Associate Professor at today's DiGeSA. From 2001 to 2011 he has held teaching activities at the detached offices of Ragusa and Caltagirone of the Faculty of Agriculture in Catania, holding courses in Computer Science , Analysis and Planning of Agricultural and Forest Systems , Graphic Design and Graphic Techniques , Materials and Techniques for Rural Buildings and Buildings for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture . Since 2012 he has held the courses of Rural Construction Design in the Degree in "Agricultural Sciences and Technologies" and GIS and Telerilevamentoin the Degree in "Preservation of the Territory, the Environment and the Landscape" of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Catania, based in Catania. From 2010 to 2012 she has been Coordinator of the PhD in "Agricultural Engineering" of the University of Catania, for which she has been active since 1998 in the organizational and didactic activities of the course and in her internationalization. She is a member of the College of Professors since 2008 and tutor of doctoral degrees. He is a member of the faculty college of the Doctorate of International Research in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science at the University of Catania. Since 2012, she is the scientific director of the ECDL-GIS Test Center at the University of Catania. Since 1993 he has participated in research projects funded by MURST, CNR, POM, POP, EU. He is currently responsible for the project Objective 3 (OR3) of the regional project titled "Innovative methodologies for the fight against citrus tristeza". Has experience in operating the operating systems, the most widely used graphics and data management programs, and programming programs, major programming languages, programming software (Mathematica), software for thermofluidodynamic simulation (Fluent), software for GIS and image processing (ArcGis, QGis, Erdas Imagine, Feature Analyst), process / product life cycle analysis software (SIA) and software for calculating and verifying structures. Excellent knowledge of the English language for which he obtained the "Cambridge First Certificate in English" with the highest grade (grade A); good knowledge of the French language is written and spoken. 

Research Interest

In general, studies carried out by Claudia Arcidiacono and its results obtained and published in scientific journals and national and international congress events, altogether in more than 70 memories, about half of them in national and international journals, can be grouped into the following topics: Buildings and plants for the vegetable farms; Recovery and reuse of traditional rural architectural heritage; Buildings and installations for livestock; Buildings and installations for the processing and preservation of agricultural products; Analysis, planning and monitoring of rural areas. Initially, research and doctoral dissertation focused on the analysis of physical processes within greenhouses (heat exchange, ventilation, etc.) in relation to cultivation practices (soil solarization, seasonal cultivation). Research has recently been focused on deepening the main image processing methodologies for image classification and feature extraction from digital images. These studies initially focused on image analysis of agricultural soil and most recently focused on the problem of localization of animals within housing environments to monitor their behavior by applying real-time monitoring systems on video image analysis and RFID systems.