Claudio Floridia

Claudio Floridia was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1971, completed a BA in Physics from the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1995, a Master's degree in Geophysics from the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, in 1998, and a Ph. in Physics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil in 2003. Since 2005, he has been a researcher at the Research and Development Center in Telecommunications at CPQD, Campinas, Brazil. He has been involved with fiber optic systems and sensors such as fiber Bragg grid (FBG) sensors, distributed sensors, optical voltage and current sensors, fiber optic based spectroscopy techniques, among others, with applications in the electrical sector, oil and gas industry, monitoring of civil structures and rail transport system. He has also been involved in OSNR measurement techniques, polarization phenomena in optical fibers, PMD, PDL and performance monitoring for telecommunication systems. Dr. Floridia is the author of more than 90 articles in journals and conferences. He holds 2 US patents, 8 granted patents in Brazil and over 18 additional patents are pending in Brazil. It is affiliated with CIGRE. He joined CIGRE Brasil's Low Power Instrument Transformers (LPIT) workgroup in 2020. He is currently vice-coordinator of the Integrating Laboratory of the National System of Photonics Laboratories (Sisfóton), an initiative of the MCTI Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)