Gustavo Sibona

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Personal Data

Name: Sibona, Gustavo Javier

Place and date of birth: Córdoba, Argentina, May 7th 1967

Citizenship: Italian - Argentinian

Marital Status: Divorced, three children

Languages: Spanish (mother language), English (very good), Italian (good), German (good).


 

Academic Degrees

Bachiller Mercantil. Instituto Secundario ''La Salle'', Córdoba (ARG), 1984.

Licenciado en Fi'sica. Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (ARG), 1990.


Thesis: "Neutron Interaction with Polymethylmethacrylate (Plexiglas)"

PhD in Physics, National University of Córdoba (ARG), 1998.


Thesis: "Diffusion-Controlled Reactions in Condensed Matter"
 
 

Academic Positions

Teacher assistant. FaMAF, National University of Córdoba (ARG). 1/8/1991 - 28/2/1999.

Assistant Professor. National Tech. University, Buenos Aires (ARG). 1/3/1999 - 31/12/2001

Research Assistant. University of Augsburg (GER). 2002 - 2004

Visiting Professor. University of Houston (USA). 15/1/2004 - 15/4/2004.

Postdoctoral Fellow. Max Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Dresden (GER). 2005.

Investigador Adjunto. CONICET. Cordoba (ARG). 2006 - today.

 
 

Direction of students

E. Leis. First degree thesis in Applied Science. Oct 2001.


Thesis: "Sim. of a System of Brownian Particles (bacteria) with Internal Energy Depot".

D. Gargiulo. First degree thesis in Applied Science. Dec 2001.


Thesis: "Numeric Simulation of a Brownian Particle in the Electrolysis Process".

F. Vallejos. First degree thesis in Applied Science. Jul 2004.


Thesis: "Application of a Neural Network Model as a Didactic Resource".
 

Main Fellowships and Grants:

Fellowship of the National Atomic Agency. Balseiro Institute, Bariloche 1987 - 1990.

University Award 1995 as teaching assistant, National University of Córdoba.

Research grant from the National University of Córdoba to travel to Puerto Rico and USA (American Physical Society 1997 March Meeting).

Research grant from the National University of Córdoba for the project: Diffusion and Competition in Biophysics and Condensed Matter.

DAAD Research Fellowship at the Fachhochschule Esslingen, Germany. (January to march 2000).

SECYT-DAAD Cooperation program DA0603. Project: Modelling of biological complex systems: study of dynamical epidemiology, and tumour and cancer growth.(2007-2008).


 

Number of Communications in Scientific Meetings: 53.


 

List of International Publications

1. Experimental Neutron Data: Sigmma (E) of Teflon (Polytetrafluorethylene) in the epithermal neutron range
   P. Prado, J. Dawidowski, J.R. Granada, R.E. Mayer, G.J. Sibona, G. Cuello.
   IAEA EXFOR Nuclear Data Section (1991).


2. Experimental Neutron Data: Sigma (E) of Plexiglas (Polymethylmethacrylate) in the thermal range
   G.J. Sibona, R.E. Mayer, J.R. Granada, C. Bonetto, P. Prado
   IAEA EXFOR Nuclear Data Section (1991).


3. Thermal Neutron Cross Section and Diffusion Parameters for Plexiglass
   G.J. Sibona, R.E. Mayer, V.H. Gillette, C. Bonetto and J.R. Granada.
   Ann. Nucl. Energy 18, 689 (1991)


4. A Correlated Majority Model
   G.J. Sibona, C.E. Budde and D.P. Prato.
   Physica A 214, 1 (1995). (PDF)


5. The Depletion Region for Diffusion-Controlled Reactions in a Field
   C.A. Condat, G. J. Sibona and C. E. Budde.
   Physical Review E 51, 2839 (1995). (PDF)


6. Stochastic escape processes from a non-symmetric potential normal form
   M.O. Caceres, C. E. Budde and G. J. Sibona.
   Journal of Physics A 28, 3877 (1995). (PDF)


7. Field and Dimensionality Effects in Trapping Reaction Kinetics
   G.J. Sibona, C. E. Budde and C. A. Condat.
   Physica A 231, 317 (1996). (PDF)


8. Diffusion- and Drift-Controlled Reactions in two and three Dimensions
   G.J. Sibona, C. E. Budde and C. A. Condat.
   Physical Review E 54, 6232 (1996). (PDF)


9. Steady State in two Dimensional Diffusion-controlled Reactions
   C.A.Condat, G.J.Sibona and C.E.Budde.
   J.Stat.Phys. 89, 369 (1997).


10. Trapping Reactions in a Field
    C.A. Condat and G.J. Sibona
    Recent Research Developments in Statistical Physics 1, 61 (2000)
    Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, India. ed. S. G. Pandalai.


11. A Simple Model for the Interaction Between Tripanosoma Cruzi and its Antibodies During Chagas Infection.
    S. Cossy Isasi, G. J. Sibona and C. A. Condat
    Journal of Theoretical Biology 208, Num. 1, 1-13 (2001). ISSN: 0022-5193 (PDF)


12. Noise - enhanced Mechanical Efficiency in Microorganism Transport.
    C.A. Condat and G.J. Sibona
    Physica A 316, 203 (2002). (PDF)


13. Dynamic Analysis of a Parasite Population Model.
    G.J. Sibona and C.A. Condat
    Physical Review E 65, 31918 (2002). (PDF)
    also in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Vol 3, Issue 6


14. Difusion in a Model for Active Brownian Motion.
    C.A. Condat and G.J. Sibona
    Physica D 168-169, 235 (2002). (PDF)


15. The numerical analysis of some systems of differential equations arising from molecular dynamics.
    A. Revnic, R.H.W. Hoppe and G.J. Sibona.
    Studia Univ. "Babes-Bolyai", Vol. XLVIII, 3, 133 - 140, (2003). (PDF)


16. Numerical simulation of the production process of layered materials.
    G.J. Sibona, S. Schreiber, R.H.W. Hoppe, B. Stritzker and A. Revnic.
    Material Science in Semiconductor Processing 6, 71 (2003). (PDF)


17. Parasite - antibody competition in Chagas disease.
    C. A. Condat, S. Cossy Isasi and G. J. Sibona
    Comments on Theoretical Biology 8, 587-607 (2003). (PDF)


18. Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
    S.Schreiber, B.Stritzker, R.H.W.Hoppe and G.J.Sibona
    In Bubbles, Jaws, Moose Tests, and More: The Wonderful World of Numerical Simulation.
    Ed. H Bungartz, R.Mundani and A.C.Frank. Springer VideoMATH. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005).
    ISBN: 3-540-22075-5.


19. Dynamics of the Antibody - T.cruzi Competition during Chagas Infection: Prognostic Relevance of Intracelular Replication.
    G. J. Sibona, C. A. Condat and S. Cossy Isasi
    Physical Review E (Rapid Communication) 71, 020901R (2005) (PDF)


20. Evolution of Microorganism Locomotion Induced by Starvation
    G.J. Sibona
    Physical Review E 76, 011919 (2007). (PDF)


21. Relevance of Intracellular Replication to the evolution of Chagas Disease
    G.J. Sibona, C.A. Condat, and S. Cossy Isasi
    In: Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I.
    A. Deutsch, L. Brusch, H. Byrne, G. de Vries and H.-P. Herzel (eds).
    Birkhauser, Boston, 299-308 (2007) (PDF)


22. Heterologous Infection During Chagas' Disease
    G.J. Sibona, C.A. Condat, and S. Cossy Isasi
    In AIP CP913: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics.
    O. Descalzi, O.A. Rosso, and H.A. Larrondo (eds). AIP New York (2007).
    ISBN: 978-0-7354-0421-2. (PDF)


23. Numerical simulation of ion beam assisted deposition of thin cubic boron nitrid films
    R.H.W. Hoppe, G.J. Sibona, A. Revnic and D. Schweitzer.
    Submitted to Computing and Visualization in Science (2006). (PDF)


24. Molecular Dynamics simulations of fullerene carbonization using composite symplectic integrators.
    G.J. Sibona, R.H.W. Hoppe and A. Revnic.
    Submitted to Journal of Numerical Mathematics (2006). (PDF)


25. Epidemic dynamics and endemic states in mobile agent .
    F. Peruani and G.J. Sibona.
    Submitted to Physical Review E (2007). (PDF)




 

List of Publications without Refereeing

1. Multiestate Random Walk Model for the Ionization Distribution Function Applied to Microanalysis
   G.J.Sibona, C.B.Briozzo, C.E.Budde.
   Reporte, Secyt - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1993.


2. Control of a Double Pendulum With A Neural Network.
   G.J. Sibona.
   Report, Fachhochschule Esslingen, 2000.


3. The object oriented code MD++ for molecular dynamics simulations. Release 2.02.
   A. Revnic and G.J. Sibona.
   Report, University of Augsburg, 2002. (PDF)