Carlo A. Borghi was born in Massa Lombarda on March 17^th, 1951. He received his M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1976 and his PhD in Technical Sciences from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1982. In February 1983 he joined the Faculty of Engineering in Bologna as a researcher. Since 1987 he has been a professor at the University of Bologna in the Field of Electrical Engineering.

He started his research activity in 1976 at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the University of Bologna working in the field of magnetohydrodynamic energy conversion. From March 1978 to October 1982 he was at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Direct Energy Conversion Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering. There he was responsible for a research project on the ionization-relaxation phenomena in a noble gas plasma of an MHD generator. The results of this research allowed him to discuss a PhD dissertation on June 1^st, 1982.

In February 1983 he became a researcher at the University of Bologna, Institute of Electrical Engineering. From 1987 he has been a professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna, first as an associate professor, then as a full professor of Electrical Engineering. He is involved both in teaching and in research activities. He has given courses to graduate and post-graduate students in the fields of Electrical and Plasma Engineering. He is a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD school in Electrical Engineering and has been responsible, as tutor, for several PhD students following their research works. Several of them became researcher and associate professor in Electrical Engineering.

The research activities of prof. Borghi at the University of Bologna are related to Plasma Engineering, Magnetohdrodinamidynamics, Electrical propulsion, Electromagnetic Design Optimization, and Mathematical Models for Electromagnetics and for Electrodynamic and Fluid-Dynamic Coupled Problems. He contributed to these sectors with experimental activities, theoretical investigations and numerical and modeling studies. He is author or co-author of more than 140 publications on these subjects.

Prof. Borghi has been responsible for many research projects of CNR (National Council of Researches of Italy), of MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Researches), ASI (Italian Space Agency) and ENEA. He is or was co-ordinator of some co-operation research projects supported by the mentioned institutions . He has been active in research contracts with private companies. He has been responsible for the Italian side for several international co-operation projects. He has been reviewer for many international journals on Plasma Science and Electromagnetics. He has been invited as a panelist in round table discussions organized during conferences. He has been member of the editorial board of several international conferences (CEFC and Compumag). He has been member of the 12^th, 13^th and 14^th International Conference on MHD. He has organized the ILG-MHD International workshop on Magnetohydrodynamic Applications – State of the Art, which has been held in Bologna. He has been lecturer of the lecture series Introduction to Magneto-Fluid dynamics for Aerospace Applications at the von Karmann Institute of Brussels.

He is vice-president, of the Board of Directors of the International LIAISON Group on Magnetohydrodynamic Electrical Power Generation.  He is secretary of the Technical Committee 25 “Quantities and Units, and their Letter Symbols” of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and recently he has been elected chairman of the Technical Committee 1 “Terminology” of IEC. He is an international member of the AIAA Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Technical Committee.  He is a member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), of APS (The American Physical Society) and of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics).

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