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Surname First name Farinelli Ruben
Curriculum vitae et studiorum
Personal informations
Address via Gramicia 32, I­44100, Ferrara, Italy
Telephone 0039­0532­97436 Mobile: 0039­348­3397737
E­mail farinelli@fe.infn.it
Citizenship Italian
Date of birth August, 1, 1975
Mother tongue Italian
Name and address of employer INAF­IASFC, via U. La Malfa 153, I­90146, Palermo, Italy
Physics Department, Ferrara University
via Saragat 1, I­44100, Ferrara, Italy
Other languages English: Excellent level
French: Average level
2011
Position held
Post­doc experience
Non tenure­track research position on SFXTs at INAF­IASFC, Palermo, Italy
2003­2010 Non tenure­track research position in High Energy Astrophysics
at the Physics Department of Ferrara University, Italy
Main field of research X­ray Binaries
Gamma Ray Bursts

Main activities and
responsibilities
Membership
Peer­review activities
Data reduction and analysis of observations performed with
X­ray satellites (RXTE, BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, Swift)
Magneto­hydrodynamical simulations of the boundary layer of accretion
disks in X­ray binary systems hosting a neutron star or a black hole
using FLASH (joint project with team at UNAM, Mexico)
Radiative transfer problems in X­ray binaries and Gamma Ray Bursts:
theory, numerical solutions and Montecarlo simulations
Development of numerical models for the XSPEC package
CompTB already available at website
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/newmodels.html
Other models
GRBCOMP for prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts
(Titarchuk et al. 2011, ApJ submitted, Frontera et al. 2011, in prep.)
COMPMAG for cylindrical accretion onto polar cap of magnetized NS
(Farinelli et al. 2011, in prep.)
Member of the scientific team of the DUAL mission, proposed in response
to the ESA second Cosmic Vision call
Referee of Astronomy & Astrophysics , PASJ and Revista Mexicana de
Astronomia y Astrofisica
Date December 20, 1999
Education and training
Title awarded Graduation in Astronomy at the 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
Co­advisors Prof. Flavio Fusi Pecci
Dott. Michele Bellazzini
Date January 29, 2003
Title awarded PhD in Physics at the Ferrara University
Title of the thesis Spectral study of Low Mass X­Ray Binaries with BeppoSAX
Evaluation Very good
Advisor Prof. Filippo Frontera
External committee member Prof. Luigi Stella

Official University Courses
Academic year 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08
Faculty Engineering, Ferrara University
Position help Contract Professor
Title of the course Numerical applications of Classical Mechanics
Academic year 2005/06
Faculty Pharmacy, Ferrara University
Position held Contract Professor
Title of the courses Preliminary Mathematics
Preliminary Physics
Academic year 2007/08
Faculty Physics, Ferrara University
Position held Contract Professor
Title of the course High Energy Astrophysics
Students advisor activities at the Physics Department
of the Ferrara University
2007/08
2004/05
2002/03
Comptonization in ultra­strong 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 luminosita':
il caso di GX 3+1 osservata con INTEGRAL

Ferrara, May 2010
Nizza, September 2010
Operating system Linux
Operating system Windows
Lecturer activity to PhD Students
Invited lecture for ICRANet/IRAP PhD
Invited lecture for Erasmus Mundus IRAP­PhD
Informatics skills and competences
High­level knowledge of the features of Linux, including hard­disk
partitioning, system configuration and upgrades, networking, source
and binary S/W installation, scripting
High­level knowledge and managing of the astronomical FITS file format
High­level programming with C and Perl languages also using support
from the CFITSIO and Gnu Scientific Library
Astronomical software: FTOOLS, XSPEC, XIMAGE, XRONOS
Graphical tools: IDL, QDP, GIMP, GNUPLOT
Basic knowledge of HTML and Bash
Frequent use of Powerpoint and Word
Joint national and international approved scientific proposals
for funds and satellite observations
2009, PRIN­MIUR
Gamma Ray Bursts: dai progenitori alla Fisica del processo dell'emissione "prompt"
P.I. Filippo Frontera
2007, PRIN­INAF
Bulk Motion Comptonisation models in X­ray binaries: from phenomenology to physics
P.I. Massimo Cocchi

1. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #0830091 (A08) , 2010 (Co­PI), Data rights for To0
The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J1701­462: from A to Z
2. Chandra Proposal ID # 11400197 (AO11), 2009 (Co­PI)
Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 2 x 20 ksec (ToO)
3. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO7), 2009 (Co­PI)
The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J1701­462:from A to Z Key Programme Observation
4. Chandra Proposal ID # 11400197 (AO11), 2009 (Co­PI)
Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 2 x 20 ksec (ToO)
5. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # (AO7), 2009 (Co­PI)
The evolution of Comptonization in XTE J1701­462:from A to Z Key Programme Observation Role: Co­PI
6. Chandra Proposal ID # 10400008 (AO10), 2008 (Co­PI)
Investigating New Integral Sources with Chandra Observing time: 20 ksec (ToO)
7. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # 0630021 (AO6), 2008 (Co­PI)
Hard X­ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs in the Galactic Centre Key Programme Observation
8. INTEGRAL Proposal ID # 0633011 (AO6), 2008 (Co­PI)
Hard X­ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs in the Galactic Disk Key Programme Observation
9. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #0632000 (AO6), 2008 (Co­PI) Hard X­ray emission from Cyg X­2
Key Programme Observation
10. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #0530003 (AO5), 2007 (Co­PI)
Hard X­ray emission from persistent NS LMXBs Key Programme Observation
11. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #0532004 (AO5), 2007 (Co­PI) Hard X­ray emission from Cyg X­2
Key Programme Observation
12. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #053101 (AO­5 Key Programme 2), 2007 (PI)
Searching with INTEGRAL for possible counterparts of unresolved X­ray sources observed with
the PDS onboard BeppoSAX North Ecliptic Pole Key Program
13. Chandra Proposal ID #09400414 (AO9), 2007 (Co­PI)
Investigating New Integral sorgenti with Chandra Observing time: 20 ksec (ToO)
14. INTEGRAL Proposal ID #0430021 (AO4), 2006 (Co­PI)
Hard Xray emission from persistent NS LMXBs Key Programme Observation
15. RXTE Proposal ID #90022, 2004 (Co­PI)
Persistent bright LMXBs in the Galactic plane Observing time: 252 ksec
16. RXTE Proposal ID #90022, 2003 (Co­PI)
Persistent bright LMXBs in the Galactic plane Observing time: 72 ksec

Oral contributions to international meetings
Meeting place and date Title of the presentation
12th Italian­Korean Symposium on
Relativistic Astrophysics
ICRANET­Pescara
July 4­8, 2011
IASF­Bologna
September 8, 2010
CNOC
Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti
Santa Margherita di Pula (CA), Italy
September 22­25, 2009
The 12 th Marcel Grossman Meeting
Paris, France
July 12­12, 2009
The X­ray Universe 2008
Granada, Spain
May 27­30, 2008
5 th CNOC
(Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti)
San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy
September 11­14, 2007
4 th Italian­Sino Workshop
International Center for Relativistic
Astrophysics
Pescara, Italy
July 20­29, 2007
INTEGRAL Consortium Meeting
INTEGRAL Science Data Center
Geneva, Switzerland
April 17­18, 2007
Invited talk
Upscattering spectral formation model for the prompt emission of
Gamma Ray Bursts
Invited talk
On the X­ray and gamma­ray emergent spectrum of super­
Eddington explosion of very massive stars. Application to spectral
appearances of gamma­ray bursts
Comptonization in ultra­strong magnetic fields. Numerical
solution of the radiative transfer equation and application to the
neutron star case
Transition layer in accretion disk around compact objects as origin
of production of hard X­ray emission
A new Comptonization model for low­magnetized accreting
neutron stars in LMXBs
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
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
A new Comptonization model for XSPEC: first results on a sample
of LMXBs

11 th Marcel Grossman meeting on
General Relativity
Berlino, Germany
July 23­29, 2006
6 th INTEGRAL Workshop
"The obscured Universe"
Moscow, Russia
July 2­8, 2006
The multicolored landscape of compact
objects and their explosive origin
Cefalu', Italy
June 11­24, 2006
Internal INTEGRAL Science Workshop
ESTEC, The Netherlands
January 18­21, 2005
4 th CNOC
(Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti)
Padova, Italy
December 2­4, 2004
5 th INTEGRAL Workshop
"The INTEGRAL Universe"
Monaco di Baviera, Germany
February 16­20, 2004
Evolution of X­ray spectra of Neutron Star LMXBs: two
blackbody­like components as a signature of NS, accretion disk
and transient hard X­ray tails as a Comptonization signature
Average hard X­ray emission from neutron star LMXBs: a view
with INTEGRAL
The X­ray spectrum of the bursting atoll source 4U 1728­34
observed with INTEGRAL
Two years of INTEGRAL Core Program observations of the bright
bursting LMXBs GX 3+1: discovery of a variable non­thermal
comptonization component
Long time­averaged high­energy spectral properties of a sample of
LMXBs observed with INTEGRAL
INTEGRAL observations of four Neutron Star Low mass X­ray
Binaries: GX 3+1, GX 354­0, GX 349+ and the Rapid Burster

Liceo Classico “Celio”
Rovigo 2005
Liceo Scientifico
“P. Paleocapa” Rovigo
May 5, 2006
Accademia dei Concordi
Rovigo, December 10 2007
Scientific divulgation
Lectures of General Astronomy
Public conference entitled
Sapere Scientifico e Formazione dello studente europeo
Invited talk
La ricerca scientifica, oggi, nelle esperienze degli ex alunni
del Paleocapa
Celebrations for 20­years of the Rovigo Astrophyl Group
Invited talk
L'Universo alle alte energie: storia dell'Astrofisica dei raggi X