About

Claudio Floridia was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1971, completed a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of São Paulo (1995), a master's degree in Geophysics from the Federal University of Bahia (1998), and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2003). He was a researcher at the CPQD Research and Development Center, Campinas, Brazil (2005-2023), specializing in fiber optic systems and sensors, including Bragg grating (FBG), distributed sensors, optical voltage/current sensors, and spectroscopy techniques with applications in the electrical, oil and gas, civil structures and railway transport sectors. Dr. Floridia has authored 100+ journal and conference articles, holds 23 patents (2 in the US), and has 10+ pending patents. He contributed to CIGRE Brazil's Low Power Instrument Transformers group (2020-2021). He is currently an assistant researcher at the Center for Applied Photonics - INESCTEC in Porto, Portugal