Russell Farrugia
Research Support Officer I
Mr Russell Farrugia received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical
Engineering in 2012 with First Class Honours. He successfully
completed an M.Sc. by research in Mechanical Engineering under
the supervision of Prof. Tonio Sant and Dr Daniel Micallef in 2014.
In the past he has been employed as a student engineer with
Methode Electronics and in 2012 was chosen for a summer
studentship at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research.
Currently he is employed with the University of Malta as a Research Support Officer on the
LAB4MEMS project launched by the ENAIC Joint Undertaking. His work involves the finite
element modelling of novel piezoelectric MEMS devices for mobile antenna applications. His
research interests include computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and
renewable energy.
Publications:
1.
Farrugia R., Sant T., Micallef D.: ‘Investigating the Aerodynamic Performance of an
Offshore Floating Wind Turbine’, in the International Conference on Aerodynamics
of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013.
2.
Farrugia R., Grech I., Casha O., Micallef J. and Gatt E.: 'Performance analysis of an RF
MEMS TPoS Resonator using FE modelling', Design, Test, Integration and Packaging
of MEMS/MOEMS Symposium (DTIP 2015), Montpellier, France, April 2015.
3.
Farrugia R., Grech I., Casha O., Micallef J., Gatt E., Ellul I., Duca R. and Borg. I.:
'Investigation of warpage in wafer-level molding: measurements and FE analysis',
Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS Symposium (DTIP 2015),
Montpellier, France, April 2015.