EARNED DEGREES AND EMPLOYMENT

- Laurea (cum laude) in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1988; - Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1993; - 1993-1995: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, then Adjunct Assistant Professor, Scientific Computation Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA; - 1996-2001: Ricercatore, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; - Since 2001: Associate Professor of Flight Mechanics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Interests and areas of expertise: - Flight mechanics and aeroelasticity of rotorcraft vehicles; - Wind energy, design, aeroelasticity and active control of wind turbines; - Flexible multibody dynamics, with particular emphasis on the modeling of rotary wing vehicles and wind turbines, and numerical methods for the solution of algebraic-differential equations; - Control, with particular emphasis on adaptive predictive control, neural control, identification methods, trajectory optimization, control of unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs); - Aerodynamic load prediction methods, including Discontinuos-Galerkin, stabilized and multi-scale methods, automatic unstructured mesh adaption, deforming grids for moving boundary problems. Publications: Editor of 1 book; author and co-author of 80 publications (of which 5 under review) in peer-reviewed international journals and book chapters; 1 plenary lecture; 4 invited keynote lectures; 140 publications in conference proceedings; 2 patents (as of February, 2009). Cheeseman Award for best paper at the 31st European Rotorcraft Forum, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial boards: - Multibody System Dynamics (Springer), Editorial Board Member, since 2007. Scientific committees: - Agusta-Westland, member of the "Research & Innovation Steering Committee", since 2005; - IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, member of the "Technical Committee on Multibody Dynamics", since 2005; - American Helicopter Society, member of the "Education Committee", since 2005; - American Helicopter Society, member of the "Dynamics Committee", 2003-2004. Visiting appointments: - Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2003-2004. Visiting Associate Professor, 2007. Adjunct Associate Professor, 2005-2006. Visiting Scholar 1998-1999. - Visiting Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Wind Technology Center, Boulder, CO, USA, 2008. - Visiting Associate Professor, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2004. - Visiting Associate Professor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Livermore, CA, USA, 2002. - Visiting Scientist, ICASE, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley, Hampton, VA, USA, 2001. - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, 1996. Organization of conferences: - Chair, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Politecnico di Milano, 25-28 June 2007. - Co-chair, 10th International Workshop on Aeroelasticity of Rotorcraft Systems, D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 3-5 November 2003. - Co-Chair, International Workshop on Anisotropic Grids: Generation, Adaption and Error Estimation, MOX Modeling and Scientific Computing, Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Brioschi", Politecnico di Milano, 21 June 2002. Other organizational activities: - Co-organizer of mini-symposia at: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Warsaw, Poland, 29 June - 2 July, 2009; VIII World Congress of Computational Mechanics, WCCM VIII, Venezia, Italy, 30 June - 5 July, 2008; Third M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 14-17 June, 2005; ECCOMAS Conference on Advances in Computational Multibody Systems, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, 21-24 June, 2005; 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2004, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 24-28 July, 2004; VI World Congress of Computational Mechanics, WCCM VI, Beijing, China, 5-10 September, 2004. - Member of the local organizing committee: VIII World Congress of Computational Mechanics, WCCM VIII, Venezia, Italy, 30 June – 5 July, 2008. Member of the scientific committee at: COMPDYN 2009, Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece, 22–24 June, 2009; ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Warsaw, Poland, 29 June - 2 July, 2009; III European Conference on Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-8 June 2006; Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN), Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, 13-15 June 2007; EUROMECH Colloquium 495, Advances in Simulation of Multibody System Dynamics, Bryansk, Russia, 18-21 February 2008. - Chair or co-chair of several sessions in international conferences. Reviewer for the following international journals: Applied Mathematical Modeling; Applied Numerical Mathematics; ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control; ASME Journal of Mechanical Design; Central European Journal of Physics; Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering; Computing and Visualization in Science; Engineering with Computers; IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; International Journal of Control; International Journal of Engineering Science; International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering; International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics; International Journal of Solids and Structures; Journal of Aerospace Engineering; Journal of Aircraft; Journal of the American Helicopter Society; Journal of Biomechanical Engineering; Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics; Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics; Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics; Multibody System Dynamics; SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing; ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik.