Role and academic position: Full Professor of Machine Design
Research activity: Structural integrity assessment of mechanical and aeronautical components and systems using Structural Health Monitoring methodologies; Identification of low and high velocity impact damage of components and structures; Calibration of constitutive laws for metallic materials; Assessment of fatigue and crack behavior of aeronautical components and systems; Fatigue design in the presence of defects.
World Top 2% Scientists member (2% of researchers in the world with the best bibliometric indices relating to scientific publications, developed by Stanford University USA).
Publications: Author of over 280 articles in international journals and international and national conferences (H-index: 36).
Research funding and technology transfer: Coordinator of European projects EDA HECTOR “HElicopter fuselage Crack moniToring and prognosis through on-board sensOR”, ASTYANAX “Aircraft fuSelage crack monitoring sYstem And progNosis through on-boArd eXpert sensor network”, SAMAS (SHM application to Unmanned Aircraft Systems), SAMAS 2 (Structural Health and Ballistic Impact Monitoring and Prognosis on to Military Helicopter), BATTAGE “Prognostic Health Management Methods For Structural Li-Ion Batteries For Aeronautical Applications”; project unit manager in DE-LIGHT DE-Icing System for LIGHT-Intermediate Class Helicopters, Lombardy Region-MIUR; scientific manager of the projects of the Ministry of Defense within the National Military Research Plan 2011 and 2017 SUMO “Development of a predictive model for ballistic impact” and SUMO 2 “Development of an analytical, numerical and experimental methodology for the design of multilayer composite ballistic protections”; manager of various industrial research projects in different technological sectors (total budget of coordinated projects of the last 5 years over 10 MEuro).
Scientific reviewer activity: Reviewer of regional and national projects in the aerospace and mechanical field (PRIN 2010-2011 and FIRB 2012 calls, PON “R&C” 2007-2013); expert selected by MIUR.
Academic management roles: Deputy Director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2017 to 2019, member of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2013 to date, Head of the Machine Design and Vehicle group, Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2013 to date.
Recent teaching activity: Advanced Machine Design, Machine Design 2 and Machine Design course (in English), Design of mechanical components and systems, Fundamentals of Machine Design.