Riccardo Tomasello is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, where he has also been a fixed-term researcher (RTB) from 2021 to 2024.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and a master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Messina. He obtained his PhD (Doctor Europaeus) in Systems Engineering and Computer Science in 2016 from the University of Calabria.
He was a research fellow at the University of Perugia (2016–2017) and at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas in Heraklion, Greece (2018–2021), where he also coordinated the "ThunderSKY" project (http://thundersky.iacm.forth.gr).
His main research activity concerns the theoretical study and micromagnetic modeling of spintronic devices (spin-coupled nano-oscillators, spin-transfer-torque MRAM magnetic memories, microwave detectors, energy harvesters), with particular attention to the micromagnetic analysis of the static and dynamic properties of skyrmions.
He is the author of over 85 publications in international journals, including articles in Nature Electronics and Nature Communications.
He actively collaborates with more than 10 experimental groups around the world and has been a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA), the University of California, Irvine (USA), the University of Salamanca (Spain), and Bogazici University (Turkey).
He received the Best Poster Award at the 61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (New Orleans, USA, 2016), the Young Researcher Award at the 2nd IEEE Conference on Advances in Magnetics (La Thuile, Italy, 2018), and the Young Researcher Award (2019) from the IEEE Magnetic Society Italy Chapter.
He has given more than 15 invited talks, organized and chaired numerous sessions and symposia at major international conferences on magnetism, magnetic materials, and nanotechnology, and was co-chair of the international conference "Trends in Magnetism 2025" in Bari, Italy.
He has participated in numerous national and international projects, including the coordination of the "SkySens" project (SKYrmion-based magnetic tunnel junction to design a temperature SENSor, reference: 841ac5ab, https://www.petaspin.com/skysens/) as part of the PRIN 2022 call for proposals – Research Projects of National Interest (Prot. 20222N9A73), and participation in the European project "MetacMed" (Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications), a European Doctoral Network funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program.
Prof. Tomasello has been a member of the IEEE since 2014 and a Senior Member since 2023. He is also a member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Italy Chapter, where he serves as Treasurer (https://r8.ieee.org/italy-nano/), of the IEEE Magnetic Society, and is also Communication Officer of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Magnetism (https://www.aimagn.org/associazione/giunta/).
At the Polytechnic University of Bari, he teaches the course "Theory of Electrical Circuits" in the three-year degree courses in Mechanical Engineering (from 2021 to 2024), Medical Systems Engineering (from 2022), and Computer and Automation Engineering (from 2024), as well as the course "Micromagnetic Modeling" at the doctoral school (SCUDO) (from 2023 to 2025).
He has supervised more than 20 thesis students and 2 doctoral students.
He was an elected member of Department Board Electrical and Information Engineering for the three-year periods 2021–2024 and 2024–2027, as representative of researchers and associate professors, respectively.