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Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I

C1428EHA Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

e-mail: dcs@df.uba.ar

telephone:+54 11 4576-3390/94 ext.809

fax: +54 11 4576-3357

Curriculum Vitae

QUALIFICATIONS

• Physics Degree, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, May 1992.

• PhD at Universidad de Buenos Aires, area Physical Science, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, September 1997.

THESIS COMPLETED

Graduation Thesis

Title: "Surface impedence calculation of a corrugated perfect conductor"

Thesis Advisor: Professor Ricardo A. Depine.

PhD Thesis

Title: "Modal theories for the study of electromagnetic scattering by corrugated surfaces".

Thesis Advisor: Professor Ricardo A. Depine.

TEACHING BACKGROUND

• Professor of Physics at Ciclo Básico Común, UBA, since April 2005.

• Instructor of Practical Problems, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA, between September 1996 to date in the following subjects: Physics 2 (for chemistry students), Physics 2 (for physics students), Physics 2 (for Biology and Geology students) Theoretical Physics 1, and "Photonic Crystals" (postgraduate course).

• Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA, between September 1993 and August 1996 in the following subjects: Physics 2 (for physics students), Physics 2 (for chemistry students) and Physics 1 (for biology and Geology students).

• Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA, between September 1992 and August 1993 in the following subjects: Physics1 (for physics students) and Physics 2 (for Chemistry students).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• Independent  Researcher at Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), since January 2008, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA.

• Adjoint Researcher at Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), November 2003- December 2007, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA.

• Assistant Researcher at CONICET, August 2001- October 2003, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA.

• Visiting Researcher at Electric and Computer Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA: February 2002.

• Visiting Researcher at Electromagnetic Communication Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, USA: August 1999.

• Visiting Researcher at Electromagnetic Communication Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, USA: December 1997 – February 1998.

• Postdoctoral scholarship holder, CONICET: April 1996 - March 1998, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA. Director: Professor Ricardo A. Depine.

• Scholarship holder, CONICET Advanced: April 1994 - March 1996, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA.
• Director: Professor Ricardo A. Depine.

• Initiation scholarship holder, CONICET: April 1992 - March 1994, Physics Department, FCEyN, UBA.
• Director: Professor Ricardo A. Depine.

PUBLICATIONS

Papers published in international journals with referee

2008-2010

- Francisco Medina, Francisco Mesa and Diana C. Skigin, “Extraordinary transmission through arrays of slits: a circuit theory model”, IEEE Trans. on Microwaves Theory Tech. 58, 105-115 (2010).

- Marina Inchaussandague, Diana Skigin, Cecilia Carmaran and Sonia Rosenfeldt, “Structural color in Myxomycetes”, Opt. Express 18, 16055-16063 (2010). Artículo seleccionado por el Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics (VJBO vol. 5, iss. 2).

- Miguel Beruete, Miguel Navarro-Cía, Diana C. Skigin and Mario Sorolla, “Millimeter-wave phase resonances in compound reflection gratings with subwavelength grooves”, Opt. Express 18, 23957-23964 (2010).

- Marcelo Lester, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Blaze produced by a dual-period array of subwavelength cylinders”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11, 045705 (2009).

- Miguel Navarro-Cía, Diana C. Skigin, Miguel Beruete, and Mario Sorolla, “Experimental demonstration of phase resonances in metallic compound gratings with subwavelength slits in the millimeter wave regime”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 091107 (2009).

- Diana C. Skigin, “Transmission through subwavelength slit structures with double period: simple model for the prediction of resonances”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11, 105102 (2009).

- Claudio I. Valencia and Diana C. Skigin, “Anomalous reflection in a metallic plate with subwavelength grooves of circular cross section”, Appl. Opt. 48, 5863-5870 (2009).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Rigorous formulation for electromagnetic plane-wave scattering from a general-shaped groove in a perfectly conducting plane: comment”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 25, 1165-1166 (2008).

- Marcelo Lester, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Control of the diffracted response of wire arrays with double period”, Appl. Opt. 47, 1711-1717 (2008).

2005-2007

- Marcelo Lester and Diana Skigin, “Coupling of evanescent s-polarized waves to the far field by waveguide modes in metallic arrays”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 9, 81-87 (2007).

- Ricardo A. Depine, Ángela N. Fantino, Susana I. Grosz and Diana C. Skigin, “Phase resonances in obliquely illuminated compound gratings”, Optik Int. J. of Light and Electron Optics 118 (1), 42-52 (2007). También en http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507113.  

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Diffraction by dual-period gratings”, Appl. Opt. 46, 1385-1391 (2007).

- L. B. Scaffardi, M. Lester, D. Skigin and J. O. Tocho, “Optical extinction spectroscopy used to characterize metallic nanowires”, Nanotechnology 18, 315402 (2007).

 - Diana C. Skigin, Hung Loui, Zoya Popovic and Edward Kuester, “Bandwidth control of forbidden transmission gaps in compound structures with subwavelength slits”, Phys. Rev. E 76, 016604  (2007). También en http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702207.

 - Diana C. Skigin, Ricardo A. Depine, Juan A. Monsoriu and Walter D. Furlan, “Diffraction by fractal metallic supergratings”, Opt. Express 15, 15628  (2007).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Narrow gaps for transmission through metallic structures gratings with subwavelength slits”, Phys. Rev. E 74, 046606 (2006). Seleccionado por el Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 14, (17) (2006) http://www.vjnano.org/nano/.

- Diana C. Skigin and Marcelo Lester, “Study of resonant modes of a periodic metallic array near a dielectric interface: evanescent-to-propagating coupling via surface plasmon excitation”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 8, 259-267 (2006).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Resonances on metallic compound transmission gratings with subwavelength wires and slits”, Opt. Commun. 262, 270-275 (2006).

- Ángela N. Fantino, Susana I. Grosz and Diana C. Skigin, "Shape resonances in nested diffraction gratings", Optik Int. J. of Light and Electron Optics 116, (1), 22-30 (2005).

- Diana C. Skigin, "Eigenmodes of index-modulated layers with lateral PMLs", Optik Int. J. of Light and Electron Optics 116, (7), 343-350 (2005).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Transmission resonances in compound metallic gratings with subwavelength slits”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 21, 217402 (2005). Seleccionado por el Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 12, (22) (2005) http://www.vjnano.org/nano/.

2000-2004

- Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin, "Resonant modes of a bottle-shaped cavity and their effects in the response of finite and infinite gratings", Phys. Rev. E 61, 4479-4490 (2000).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Surface shape resonances and surface plasmon polariton excitations in bottle-shaped metallic gratings", Phys. Rev. E 63, 046608 (2001).

- Angela N. Fantino, Susana I. Grosz and Diana C. Skigin, "Resonant effects in periodic gratings comprising a finite number of grooves in each period", Phys. Rev. E 64, 016605 (2001).

- Susana I. Grosz, Diana C. Skigin and Angela N. Fantino, “Resonant effects in compound diffraction gratings: influence of the geometrical parameters of the surface”, Phys. Rev. E 65 (5), 056619 (2002).

- Diana C. Skigin, Ángela N. Fantino and Susana I. Grosz, “Phase resonances in compound metallic gratings”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5, S129-S135 (2003).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Use of an anisotropic absorber for simulating electromagnetic scattering by a perfectly conducting wire”, Optik 114 (5) 229-233 (2003).

1993-1999

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Equivalent surface impedance of perfectly conducting lamellar gratings: a numerical calculation", Optik 94, Nro. 3, 114-122 (1993).

- Diana C. Skigin, Miriam L. Gigli, Marina E. Inchaussandague, Néstor E. Bonomo and Claudio I. Valencia, "Reflection of light at a slab containing electrically small dielectric spheres", Int. J. of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 14, Nro. 6, 1323-1339 (1993).

- Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin, "Scattering from metallic surfaces having a finite number of rectangular grooves", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, Nro. 11, 2844-2850 (1994).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Enhancement of antispecular orders from metallic gratings with rectangular grooves", Optik 101, Nro. 2, 63-72 (1995).

- Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin, "Antispecular effects in conical diffraction from deep reflection gratings", J. Mod. Opt. 43 (3), 453-468 (1996).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "R-matrix method for a surface with one groove of arbitrary profile", Opt. Commun. 130, 4-6, 307-316 (1996).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "The multilayer modal method for electromagnetic scattering from surfaces with several arbitrarily shaped grooves", J. Mod. Opt. 44, 1023-1036 (1997).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "The R-matrix method applied to the SIBC for diffraction gratings of arbitrary profile", Optik 105, 165-174 (1997).

- Juan C. Plá, Julio C. Durán, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Ray tracing vs. electromagnetic methods in the analysis of antireflective textured surfaces: a first approach", Optik 107, 141-144 (1998).

- Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin, "Multilayer modal method for diffraction from dielectric inhomogeneous apertures", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, 675-683 (1998).

- Ana M. Ruedin, Diana C. Skigin and Rémi Vaillancourt, "Computer solution of the scattering problem for a groove in a metallic plane using the modal method", Computers Math. Applic. 35, 98-119 (1998).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Modal theory for diffraction from a dielectric aperture with arbitrarily shaped corrugations", Opt. Commun. 149, 1-3, 117-126 (1998).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Scattering by lossy inhomogeneous apertures in thick metallic screens", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, (8), 2089-2096 (1998).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Modal method for scattering by arbitrarily shaped multivalued surfaces", J. Mod. Opt. 45, (9), 1821-1843 (1998).

- Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Resonant enhancement of the field within a single cavity in a ground plane: comparison for different rectangular shapes", Phys. Rev E 59 (3), 3661-3668 (1999).

- Diana C. Skigin, Vladimir V. Veremey and Raj Mittra, "Superdirective radiation from finite gratings of rectangular grooves", IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propag. 47 (2), 376-383 (1999).

- Claudio I. Valencia, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Resonant excitation of the electromagnetic field within a bivalued groove ruled on a highly conducting surface", Opt. Commun. 172, 125-137 (1999).

Book chapters

- Francisco Medina, Francisco Mesa, Ricardo Marqués and Diana Skigin, “Extraordinary transmission as an impedance-matching problem”, Chapter 24 in Applications of Metamaterials, Filippo Capolino ed., Taylor and Francis CRC Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-42005-423-1.

- Diana C. Skigin, “Phase resonances and gaps in the transmission response of metallic wire gratings”, in Optics and Electro-Optics Research, Vol. 254, Chapter 5, pp. 163-193. Albert V. Berzilla ed., Nova Science Publishers Inc., NY (en prensa) ISBN: 978-1-60021-682-4.

In Conference Proceedings

1. Juan C. Plá, Julio C. Durán, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Ray tracing vs. electromagnetic methods in the analysis of antireflective textured surfaces", Proceedings of the 26^th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Anaheim, USA, September 1997, p. 187.

2. Diana C. Skigin, Vladimir V. Veremey and Raj Mittra, "Superdirective radiation from finite groove gratings", Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, USA, June 1998, p. 2174.

3. Diana C. Skigin, Vladimir V. Veremey and Raj Mittra, "High-Q resonances in finite gratings", Proceedings of the 1998 JINA International Symposium on Antennas (Journées Internationales de Nice sur les Antennes), Niza, France, November 1998, p.137.

4. Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Scattering of light by identical cavities ruled on a highly conducting surface", 18th. Congress of the International Commission for Optics (ICO), San Francisco, USA August 1999, p.591.

5. Diana C. Skigin, Susana I. Grosz and Ángela N. Fantino, "Resonant effects in compound diffraction gratings", in 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and the 7th latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Their Applications, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 4419, p.769-772 (2001).

6. Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin, "Resonant cavities + surface plasmons = 2 selective processes in electromagnetic scattering from rough surfaces", in 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and the 7th latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Their Applications, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 4419, p.769-783 (2001).

7. Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, "Numerical study of the eigenmodes of selective microdevices with multivalued corrugations", in 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and the 7th latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Their Applications, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 4419, p.792-795 (2001).

8. Diana C. Skigin, Ángela N. Fantino and Susana I. Grosz, “Phase resonances in compound metallic gratings”, in ICO XIX: Optics for the quality of life, Proc. SPIE 4829, p. 287-288 (2002).

9. Ángela N. Fantino, Susana I. Grosz and Diana C. Skigin, "Resonant modes in nested diffraction gratings", in 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and the 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 5622, p. 1405-1410 (2004).

10. Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Resonant response of metallic compound gratings with subwavelength slits”, in Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory, p. 71-76 (2006). 

11. Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Resonant and dynamical properties of compound gratings with metamaterials”, in Proceedings of Metamaterials 2007, p. 292-295 (2007).

12. Francisco Medina, Diana C. Skigin, Francisco Mesa and Ricardo Marqués, “Extraordinary optical transmission phenomena to the light of microwave field theory”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory, p. 31-35 (ISBN: 978-1-4244-2284-5; IEEE Cat.: CFP08761-PRT), Odesa, Ucrania (2008).

13. Francisco Medina Mena, Diana C. Skigin and Francisco Mesa Ledesma, “Modelo de circuito para la transmisión extraordinaria a través de ranuras”, Actas del XXIII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI) en CD-ROM (libro de resúmenes p. 113, ISBN: 978-84-612-6290-8; artículo 4 páginas en CD-ROM con ISBN: 978-84-612-6291-5), Madrid, España (2008).

14. M. Navarro-Cía, D. C. Skigin, M. Beruete and M. Sorolla, “Experimental demonstration of phase resonances in metallic compound gratings with subwavelength slits in the millimeter wave regime”, Proceedings of Metamaterials 2008 en CD-ROM, p. 730-732 (ISBN: 978-84-9769-229-8), (2008).

15. Mauro Cuevas, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Surface polariton enhanced transmission in metamaterial wire gratings”, Proceedings of Metamaterials 2008 en CD-ROM, p. 470-472 (ISBN: 978-84-9769-229-8), (2008).

16. Marcelo Lester, Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine, “Control of the electromagnetic response of dual-period arrays”, Proceedings of Metamaterials 2008 en CD-ROM, p. 718-720  (ISBN: 978-84-9769-229-8), (2008).

17. Francisco Medina, Diana C. Skigin and Francisco Mesa, “Extraordinary transmission through slits from a microwave engineering perspective”, in Proceedings of the 38^th European Microwave Conference, p. 702-705 (ISBN: 978-2-87487-006-4), (2008).

18. Francisco Medina, Francisco Mesa and Diana C. Skigin, “Anomalous reflection in metallic structures with subwavelength grooves: a circuit theory model”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 10), p. 217-220, (2010).

19. Ana E. Luna, Diana C. Skigin, Marina Inchaussandague and Arturo Roig Alsina, “Structural color in beetles of South America”, in SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, “The Nature of Light: Light in Nature III”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 7782, 778205 (8 pages), (2010).

AWARDS OBTAINED

• Young Scientist Award to attend the XXIV General Assembly of URSI (International Union of Radio Science), Kyoto, Japan, August 1993.

• 1998 Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award to attend the 1998 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, United States, June 1998.

• ICO Fellowship to attend the XIX Conference of the International Commission for Optics, Florence, Italy. August 2002.

• Researcher grant to attend the conference Metamaterials 2007, Rome, Italy, October 2007.

• Technological and Scientific Production Award, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1995.

INVITED TALKS

- “Scattering electromagnético en superficies corrugadas”, LIARA (Research Lab of the Navy of the Argentinian Republic), April 1996.

- “Scattering en superficies rugosas”, Coloquia at the Physics Dept., FCEyN, UBA, October 1997.

- "Difraction accoring to Maxwell", 1st Optics Workshop, 83rd Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Physical Society, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1998..

- “Resonant scattering from surfaces with embedded cavities'', Electric Engineering Department, PennState University, United States, September 1999.

- "Let´s shed some light on surfaces”, Tandar Lab, National Commission of Atomic Energy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1999.

- "Superdirectivity and phase resonances”, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States, February 2002.

- "Resonant phenomena in surfaces with embedded cavities”, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States, February 2002.

- "Research lines of the Applied Electromagnetics Group", FCEyN, UBA, October 2005.

- "Enhanced transmission and other wonders of Nature", Coloquia at the Physics Dept., FCEyN, UBA, April 2009.

- Colour in natural structures", Postgraduate Course on Laser and Optics in Science and Engineering (LOCI 2009), Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas, La Plata, Buenos Aires, October 2009.

- "Metamaterials", V Optics and Photonics Workshop (TOPFOT), Mar del PLata, Buenos Aires, November 2009.

RESEARCH PROJECTS ADVISOR

- "Resonant effects on difraction gratings". Period: 2000. Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires.

- "Phase resonances in compound gratings". Period: 2003. Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires.

- "Study of the electromagnetic response of natural photonic structures" (PIP 112-200801-01880). Period: January 2009- December 2011. Institution: CONICET.

HUMAN RESOURCES TRAINING

PhD Thesis

Scholarship holders Advisor

- Doctoral Scholarship from Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cinetífica y Tecnológica granted to Lic. Ana Luna for the period May 2008- April 2011.

- Jacques Hung Loui, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA, to develop rogorous electromagnetic methods for studying the scattering by complex metallic structures. Period: April 2005 - July 2005.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL RECORDS

- FOMEC scholarship to do research in the Electromagnetic Communication Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, United States, February 2002.

- Chairperson of the Session “Metamaterials 1”, in the 10th International Conference on Near-field Optics and Related Techniques, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2008.

- Member of the Argentinian Physical Society (AFA) since 1993.

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