A bit about myself

I was interviewed by our marketing and information department when I was appointed professor: the transcript of the interview is displayed on the TU Delft Aerospace Engineering website Profile of a Prof.

Editorial Boards of International Journals

•   Associate Editor of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA Journal since 2015.

•   Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials since 2015.

•   Special Guest Editor of Progress in Aerospace Sciences in 2015.

•   Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Crashworthiness since 2005.

Honors and Awards

•   American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow 2012.

•   Fulbright Grant in the category Research Scholar, academic year 2006/07.

•   Young Researcher Fellowship given during the “First M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics”,Massachusetts Institute of Technology., Cambridge (USA), June 2001.

•   TMR Marie Curie Research Training Grant given by the programme Training and Mobility of Researchers of the European Union, 1998.

•   Amelia Earhart Fellowship 1996/97 given by Zonta International Foundation to young women who perform research in aeronautical engineering or in sciences related to aeronautical studies.

Personal webpage

You can find my group webpage here

International Technical Committees

• Executive Council Member of the International Committee on Composite Materials since 2015.
  
  
• Member of Board of DEWIS - Delft Women In Science at Delft University of Technology since 2015.
  
  
• Member of Composites Working Group of NAFEMS - The International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community since 2014.
  
  
• International Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Structures Technical Committee since 2009.
  
  
• Evaluator and expert for FP7 and H2020 on behalf of the European Commission since 2007.
  
  
• Member of the Composite Materials Handbook CMH-17 (formerly MIL-HDBK-17) from 2006 to 2014.
  
  
• Member of the Working Group for European Space Agency (ESA) ECSS-E-30-24 Buckling Handbook from 2005 to 2010.
  
  
• Collaborator for CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) Initiative, an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers, from 2007 to 2012.

Biography

Academic Appointments

January 2015 - Present: Full Professor of Aerospace Structures, and Chairholder of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

November 2012 - January 2015: Full Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA.

May 2006 - Present: Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

May 1999 - April 2006: Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Education

Politecnico di Milano, Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.

Politecnico di Milano, Laurea cum laude in Aeronautical Engineering.

Research Activity at International Institutions

September - November 2010: Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

October 2006 - March 2007: Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

June - December 1998: EU Research Assistant at DLR (German Aerospace Center) in Braunschweig, Germany, through a TMR Marie Curie Research Training Grant given by the programme Training and Mobility of Researchers of the European Union.

Projects

•   European Project “More Affordable Aircraft through eXtended, Integrated and Mature nUmerical Sizing (MAAXIMUS), April 2008 - September 2016.

•   European Project “One-shot Manufacturing on large scale of 3D up graded panels and stiffeners for lightweight thermoplastic textile composite structures (MAPICC 3D)”, December 2011 - November 2015.

•   European Project “New Robust DESIgn Guidelines for Imperfection Sensitive Composite Launcher Structures (DESICOS)”, February 2012 - September 2015.

•   European Project “Dynamics in Aircraft Engineering Design and Analysis for Light Optimized Structures (DAEDALOS)”, November 2010 - April 2014. Coordinator of the Project.

•   Project “COmposite materials Damage under Multi AXial loading (COD MAX)” in collaboration with the Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, funded by Regione Lombardia, October 2010 - April 2012.

•   Several projects with Ferrari Gestione Sportiva on Crashworthiness of Composite Structures, in the years 1999-2007.

•   Erasums Mundus Programme "DOCET / EQF-CDIO Correspondence model for the recognition and EnhancemenT of engineering degrees", December 2008 - May 2010.

•   European Project "Improved material exploitation at safe design of composite airframe structures by accurate simulation of collapse (COCOMAT)", January 2004 - October 2008.

•   Roberto Rocca Project, collaboration between MIT and Politecnico di Milano, 2005/06.

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