Surname First name

Date of birth

Farinelli Ruben

August 1, 1975

Citizenship

Italian

Name and address

of employer

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova

Foreign languages

Certificate in Advanced Language, Council of Europe Level C1

July 1, 2013

March  31, 2014

April 1, 2012

June 30, 2013

Scientist position at the Integral Science Data Center (ISDC)

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Postdoc position on Gamma Ray Bursts

Physics Department, University of Ferrara, Italy

January 1, 2011

December 31, 2011

Postdoc position on Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients

INAF-IASF of Palermo, Italy

September 1, 2003 December 31, 2010

Postdoc position in High Energy Astrophysics

Physics Department, University of Ferrara, Italy

2015/16

Physics Department of Ferrara University

Course of  High Energy Astrophysics

2007/08

Physics Department of Ferrara University

Course of  High Energy Astrophysics

Engineering Faculty of Ferrara University

Course of Numerical applications of Classical Mechanics

2006/07

Engineering Faculty of Ferrara University

Course of Numerical applications of Classical Mechanics

2005/06

2004/05

Pharmacy Faculty of Ferrara University

Courses of  Preparatory Mathematics and Preparatory Physics

Engineering Faculty of Ferrara University

Course of Numerical applications of Classical Mechanics

2007/08

2004/05

2002/03

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 luminosità:

il caso di GX 3+1 osservata con INTEGRAL

Ferrara, May 2010

Nizza, September 2010

Invited lecture for ICRANet/IRAP PhD

Invited lecture for Erasmus Mundus IRAP-PhD

October 21, 2014

June 12, 2015

March 24, 2014

May 31, 2014

January 24, 2012

March 31, 2012

Mathematics and Physics at economics and social senior high school “G. Carducci”, Ferrara

Mathematics and Physics at economics and social senior high school “G. Carducci”, Ferrara

Mathematics and Physics at economics and social senior high school “G. Carducci”, Ferrara

November 29, 2011

December 15, 2011

Mathematics and Physics at classical education senior high school “L. Ariosto”, Ferrara

March 8, 2000

June 10, 2000

Mathematics and Science at I.T.A. “A. Serpieri”, Bologna

2003

PhD in Physics at Ferrara University

Title of the thesis

Spectral study of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries with BeppoSAX

Evaluation: very good

Advisor: Prof. Filippo Frontera

1999

Graduation in Astronomy at 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

Binary systems

LMXB, SFXT, XRPS

Gamma Ray Bursts

Radiative transfer

Data reduction and analysis of observations performed with

X-ray satellites (RXTE, BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, Swift, XMM)

Development of numerical codes for the X-ray spectral

formation and application to data

Theoretical and observational studies of the prompt emission

Theory, numerical solutions and Montecarlo simulations

General Relativity

and extended theories

of gravity

Scientist on duty

(ISDC period)

Ray-tracing algorithms

Compact stellar structures in f(R)-gravity

Running a quick-look analysis of the INTEGRAL data within few

hours to detect new and  unexpected sources, monitoring the

instruments  and dealing with triggers from the INTEGRAL Burst

Alert System. The Scientist on duty is primarily responsible

for monitoring the scientific output of the INTEGRAL

instruments and reacting quickly to problems or scientific results

Peer-review

Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, PASJ,

Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica and

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Models for the X-ray

spectral fitting package

XPEC

Official release since v. 12.8.0

COMPMAG: thermal and bulk Comptonization for cylindrical

accretion onto the polar cap of a magnetized neutron star

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu/xspec/manual/XSmodelCompmag.html

COMPTB: thermal and bulk Comptonization in subrelativistic

spherical  accretion simmetry

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu/xspec/manual/XSmodelComptb.html

Contributed web page

GRBCOMP: thermal and bulk Comptonization in subrelativistic

outflows

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu/xspec/models//grbcomp.html

Linux and Mac OS

Windows

Programming languages

Astronomical

and scientific S/W

Graphical tools

Web design

Hard-disk partitioning tools                                                            System configuration and upgrades

Source and binary S/W installation

Networking

Word, Powerpoint, managing for installation of programs and

updates

C, Python, Perl, Bash

High-level programming, also using interfaces with the

CFITSIO  and Gnu Scientific Library

FTOOLS, XSPEC, XRONOS, MATHEMATICA

All tools necessary to face several problems of mathematical

methods of physics (e.g., PDEs, systems of ODEs)

High-level knowledge and managing of the astronomical

FITS file format

GNUPLOT, QDP, IDL

Joomla! CMS

Meeting place and date

Title of the talk

XXI SIGRAV meeting

Alessandria, September 15-19 2013

Numerical solutions of the Lane-Emden equation

in f(R)-gravity

CNOC

Congresso Nazionale Oggetti

Compatti

Ferrara, September 17-19 2013

On the stability of the thermal Comptonization index

in NS LMXBs in their different spectral states

III Congresso Nazionale GRB

Napoli, September 20-22, 2012

Theoretical study of the peak energy vs. luminosity correlation in GRBs with Montecarlo simulations

Royal Institute of Technology

Stockholm, June 13,  2012

Invited talk

Upscattering spectral formation model for the prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts

Second Ferrara Workshop on
X-ray Astrophysics up to 511 keV

Ferrara, September 14-16, 2011

Spectral evolution of the X-ray nova XTE J1859+226 during its outburst observed by BeppoSAX and RXTE

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

Comptonization in ultra-strong magnetic fields. Numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation and application to the neutron star case

The 12^th Marcel Grossman Meeting

Paris, France, July 12-12, 2009

Transition layer in accretion disk around compact objects as origin of production of hard X-ray emission

The X-ray Universe 2008

Granada, Spain, May 27-30, 2008

A new Comptonization model for low-magnetized accreting neutron stars in LMXBs

CNOC

Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti

San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy

September 11-14, 2007

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

4^th Italian-Sino Workshop

International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

Pescara, Italy

July 20-29, 2007

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

INTEGRAL Consortium Meeting INTEGRAL Science Data Center

Geneva, Switzerland

April 17-18, 2007

A new Comptonization model for XSPEC: first results on a sample of LMXBs

11^th Marcel Grossman meeting on General Relativity

Berlin, Germany

July  23-29, 2006

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

6^th INTEGRAL Workshop

"The obscured Universe"

Moscow, Russia

July 2-8,  2006

Average hard X-ray emission from neutron star LMXBs: a view with INTEGRAL

The multicolored landscape of compact objects and their explosive origin

Cefalu', Italy

June 11-24, 2006

The X-ray spectrum of the bursting atoll source 4U 1728-34 observed with INTEGRAL

Internal INTEGRAL Science Workshop ESTEC, The Netherlands

January 18-21, 2005

Two years of INTEGRAL Core Program observations of the bright bursting LMXBs GX 3+1: discovery of a variable non-thermal comptonization component

CNOC

(Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti)

Padova, Italy

December 2-4, 2004

Long time-averaged high-energy spectral properties of a sample of LMXBs observed with  INTEGRAL

5^th INTEGRAL Workshop

"The INTEGRAL Universe"

Monaco di Baviera,  Germany

February 16-20, 2004

INTEGRAL observations of four Neutron Star Low mass X-ray Binaries: GX 3+1, GX 354-0, GX 349+ and the Rapid Burster

Official position

Public conferences

Scientific Director of the Astronomical Observatory

“V. Bazzan” of Rovigo (Italy)

L’Universo ai raggi X e l’astrofisica delle alte energie

Festa dell’Astronomia, Legnago, May 15-16, 2015

L’Universo ai raggi X e l’astrofisica delle alte energie

Liceo Scientifico  “P. Paleocapa” Rovigo, October 23, 2012

L'Universo alle alte energie: storia dell'Astrofisica dei

raggi X

Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo, December 10, 2007

Sapere Scientifico e Formazione dello studente europeo

La ricerca scientifica, oggi, nelle esperienze degli ex

alunni del Paleocapa

Liceo Scientifico “P. Paleocapa” Rovigo, May 5, 2006

Lectures to high-school students

Course of General Astronomy

Liceo Classico “Celio, Rovigo, 2005