Jorge Portí Durán

Jorge Portí Durán received the M.S: and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He is with the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Granada since 1990, where he is now full professor.

His teaching activity was initially involved with several subjects, outstanding among which are General Physics for the Degree in Mathematics and Statistical Physics for the Degree in Physics. Since 1993 to present, he has taught different courses in Physics for Architects and published several textbooks concerning these subjects. Since 2010 until now he teaches the subject Analytical Mechanics and Mechanics of Continuum Media in the Degree in Physics. Since 1996 up to now he has been involved with different Post-Doctoral and Master courses. Currently he teaches the subject Supplementary Mathematics and Physics in the master entitled Physics: Radiation, Nanotechnology, Particles and Astrophysics and the Master entitled Teaching Compulsory and Pre-University Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching.

His research deals with numerical modelling of propagating phenomena, mainly of electromagnetic nature, but he has also contributed to acoustic problems modelling. His works include applications the numerical algorithms, Moments Method and Finite Difference method, both in the time domain. However his main contribution concentrates in the Transmission Line Modelling (TLM) numerical method. TLM is a relatively recent method to which he has contributed in his formulation and also in its widening its applications in fields such as: antenna modelling, electromagnetic invisibility, optimization of radiation problems among others. His present research is devoted to the numerical and experimental study of natural electromagnetic phenomena in planetary atmospheres.

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