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ANTONIO C. BRUNO

 

  PERSONAL DATA

Born: May 23,1958 
Citizen: Brazil 
Fax: + 55 21 512-3222 
E-mail: acbruno@fis.puc-rio.br

  EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • Post-doctoral: Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. 1991 - 1992.

  • Ph.D.: Institute of Physics of S&o Carlos, University of Sgio Paulo and Istituto di Elettronica dello Stato Solido, CNR, Rome, Italy. 1987 - 1990. 

  • M.Sc.: Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. August 1981 - 1984. 

  • EE: Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. 1976 -1981.

AWARDS

  • Pew Latin American Fellows Award, The Pew Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A 1991.

  • International Center for Theoretical Physics Fellowship for Training and Research in Italian Laboratories, Trieste, Italy, 1987.

POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 1996 - 

  • Research Engineer, Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. 1984-1996 

  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A. September 1993, May - June 1994. 

  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. June -July 1994. 

  • Visiting Researcher, Istituto di Elettronica dello Stato Solido (IESS), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy. 1987 - 1988. 

  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. August 1984. 

  • Project Engineer, Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio cle Janeiro. 1981 -1984.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Research and development of SQUIDs for detection of weak magnetic fields

  • Magnetic techniques for nondestructive testing of materials

  • SQUID instrumentation for biomagnetism

PATENTS

  • "Magnetic Imaging of Paintings Using a SQUID", with Orest Symko (U. of Utah) and Paulo Costa Ribeiro (PUC-Rio). U.S.A. 1992.

  • "Contactless Measurement of Effective Resistivity of Human Body with a SQUID", with Orest Symko (U. of Utah) and Paulo Costa Ribeiro (PUC-Rio). U.S.A. 1992.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. Measurements of Surf ace-breaking Flaws in Steel Pipes Using a SQUID Susceptometer in an Unshielded Environment, C. Hall Barbosa, A. C. Bruno, G. S. Kohner, J. P. Wikswo, Jr., A. P. Ewing, Y. P. Ma and C. S. Camerini (accepted Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation).

  1. Boundary Integral Equations for Modeling Arbitrary Flaw Geometries in Electric Current Injection NDE, A. P. Ewing, C. Hall Barbosa, T. A. Cruse, A. C. Bruno and J. P. Wikswo, Jr. (accepted Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation).

  1. A Cellular Automaton Computer Model for the Study of Magnetic Detection of Cardiac Tissue Activation during Atrial Flutter, E. Costa Monteiro, L. C. Miranda, A. C. Bruno and P. Costa Ribeiro (accepted IEEE Transactions on Magnetics).

  1. Image Reconstruction of Spherical Inclusions in Ferromagnetic Structures Using the Generalized Inverse, A. C. Bruno, C. Hall Barbosa, E. Andrade Lima, G. S. Kohner (accepted IEEE Transactions on Magnetics).

  2. Imaging of Flaws in Magnetically Permeable Structures Using the Generalized Inverse on Leakage Fields, A. C. Bruno, Journal of Applied Physics vol. 82, 5899 (1997).

  1. Tesla/Volt Calibration Method for Integrated Planar SQUID Gradiometers, A. C. Bruno, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 7, 2760 (1997).

  1. Image Processing Techniques to Remove Depth Bias Effects in Magnetic Source Images of Deep Cracks, E. Andrade Lima, A. C. Bruno, and J. Szczupak, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 16, 797 (1997).

  1. Automation of Electric Current Injection NDE by Neural Networks, C. Hall Barbosa, A. C. Bruno, M. Vellasco, M. Pacheco, and C. S. Camerini, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 16, 789 (1997).

  1. Electric Current Injection NDE Using a SQUID Magnetometer, A. C. Bruno, C. Hall Barbosa and L. F. Scavarda, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 8, p. 165 (1996).

  1. Minimum-Norm Least-Squares Inverse for Magnetic Flux Leakage Image Reconstruction, A. C. Bruno, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 15, p. 911 (1996).

  1.  Imaging Flaws Under Insulation Using a SQUID Magnetometer, A. C. Bruno, C. Hall Barbosa, J. E. Zimmerman, P. Costa Ribeiro, E. Andrade Lima, L. F. Scavarda, C. Kelber, J. Szczupak and C. S. Camerini, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 15, p. 2219 (1996).

  1.  Measurements of Surface-breaking Flaws in Ferromagnetic Plates by Means of an Imaging SQUID Susceptometer, A. C. Bruno, A. P. Ewing and J. P. Wikswo, Jr., IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 5, 2482 (1995).

  1. Image Processing Techniques for NDE SQUID Systems, C. R. Hall Barbosa, A. C. Bruno, L. F. Scavarda, E. Andrade Lima, P. Costa Ribeiro, C. Kelber IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 5, 2486 (1995).

THESIS ADVISOR

  • Carlos Roberto Hall Barbosa (Ph.D., 1995 -)

  • Eduardo Andrade Lima (Ph.D. 1997 -)

  • Ricardo Schifini Gladschtein (Ph.D. 1998 -)

  • Paula Haas Ornelas (M.Sc., 1998 -)

  • Eduardo Andrade Lima (M.Sc. 1997)

  • Carlos Roberto Hall Barbosa (M.Sc., 1995)

REFEREE

  • Journal of Applied Physics

  • Applied Superconductivity

  • Superconductor Science and Technology

  • IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

 

 

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