Bob Coïsson was born in val
Pelis (Ousitanio)
in 1943. He studied at the Ginnasio "Machiavelli" (with N.Bichi), at
the
Liceo "Dante" (in particular history of art with M.Tosi) in Firenze
where
he got the Diploma di Maturita` Classica in 1961. He studied physics at
the Universita` di Firenze
(Dept.
of physics) , (in particular general physics with M.Mandò,
algebra
with R.
Magari and
particle physics with C.Chiuderi, and worked also a few months as a
secondary
school teacher and as a lorry driver) and got the Laurea in Fisica in
1966,
with a thesis on laser technology in collaboration with R.Pratesi,
P.Burlamacchi,
G.Redaelli and G.Toraldo. In 1967 he went to a voluntary workcamp at
San Cristobal Ecatepec de
Morelos , in
the
surroundings of Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico);
then in 1968-69 he was lecturer at the Institut Polytechnique de
Conakry
(Guinea),
where he taught physics laboratory and general physics, and worked on
village
energy resources and applied physics curriculum development with
L.Behanzin;
in 1969-70 he was in Kpekedu
(Guinea) on a programme to develop physics
laboratory teaching in guinean upper secondary schools. From 1971
t o
1977
he was employed at the Universita` di Lecce (Italia) (Dept.
of physics) , where he taught physics laboratory and
electromagnetic
waves, and did research on high voltage technology and high current
electron
beams with G.Brautti. From 1977 he has been mainly at the University of
Parma (Italia), teaching physics laboratory and general physics. He has
also done research on synchrotron radiation at CERN
in
1981 with A. Hofmann (it was the first observation of synchr. rad. from
protons), and at Stanford in
1986
with H. Winick (and spent shorter periods also at ESRF
Grenoble, LURE Orsay, BINP
Novosibirsk,
NRLS Hefei, KEK
Tsukuba and IMS
Hanoi). He participated to the project of the European
Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) .
Has been in the Editorial Board of the journal Industrial Metrology.
He is qualified as Expert in Radiation Protection.
His research interests have been on the properties of synchrotron
radiation
sources, synchrotron radiation from protons, particle beam monitoring,
free electron lasers, optical coherence theory, laser technology,
propagation
of waves in periodic structures, fibre optic components, physics
teaching.
Present research
projects include the study and use of spatial coherence properties
of synchrotron radiation, applications of white light interferometry to
measurements and communications, teaching of fundamentals of fibre
optics
technology, etc.
Member of SPIE , CAI
,
ANPEQ ,
Languages spoken: French, Italian,English, Spanish
（和一点儿汉语）
Computer languages used: Matlab, Scilab, Maple.
Hobbies: Photography, Trekking and Mountaneering, Ski, Music,
Horticulture,
Cultural anthropology, Linguistics, Diabetology. (for some of these
subjects
see the links page).
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