Croce Alessandro
Full Professor
Croce Alessandro
Full Professor
I’m a Full Professor of Flight Mechanics at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology here at the Politecnico di Milano.I have been proudly working in the renewable energy sector for more than 20 years.
My research focuses are in the area of system integration, multibody aero-servo-hydro-elastic modeling, Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Optimization (MDAO) with applications to holistic wind turbine design, flight mechanics, wind tunnel testing, and airborne wind energy - flight mechanics and design. On these topics, I have co-authored about 150 publications in peer-reviewed international journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings.
I represent Politecnico di Milano within the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE, https://www.eawe.eu/ ↗). I serve as Associate Editor of Wind Energy Science (https://www.wind-energy-science.net/ ↗), am a Board Member of Airborne Wind Europe (https://airbornewindeurope.org/ ↗), and coordinate the POLI-Wind Laboratory, the wind energy laboratory within the Aerospace Department.
In 2018, I had the honor of serving as Chairman of the International Conference The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE2018, http://www.torque2018.org/ ↗) .
Research labs
POLI-Wind - Wind Energy Lab
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Research projects
HORIZON EUROPE | AWETRAIN - Airborne Wind Energy TRAining for Industrialization Network
Project detailsHORIZON EUROPE | SUDOCO - Sustainable resilient data-enabled offshore wind farm and control co-design
Project detailsHORIZON EUROPE | TWEET-IE - Twin Wind tunnels for Energy and the EnvironmenT - Innovations and Excellence
Project detailsHORIZON EUROPE | MERIDIONAL - Multiscale modelling for wind farm design, performance assessment and loading
Project detailsH2020 | FLOAWER - Floating Wind Energy Network
Project detailsH2020 | CL-WINDCON - Closed Loop Wind Farm Control
Project detailsSEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME | AVATAR - AdVanced Aerodynamic Tools for lArge Rotors
Project detailsSEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME | INNWIND.EU - Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications
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Magazine articles
UN SOFFIO DI INNOVAZIONE E SOSTENIBILITÀ AL FESTIVAL DELLA SCIENZA DI GENOVA
05/11/2025
TWEET-IE PROJECT CLOSING EVENT
20/10/2025
SOSTENIBILITÀ: IL RUOLO DEI MATERIALI NELLE TECNOLOGIE AEROSPAZIALI E NELLE ENERGIE RINNOVABILI
08/10/2025
IL DAER SI RACCONTA ALL'ALUMNI POLIMI DAY 2025
04/10/2025
Filippo Trevisi wins the EAWE Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award
28/08/2025
DAER SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
11/07/2025
CERTIFICAZIONE DI IMPIANTI AERONAUTICI
09/05/2025
OPENDAY25: COSTRUISCI IL TUO FUTURO @POLIMI
01/04/2025
NEW OPEN PHD POSITION IN WIND FARM OPTIMIZATION AND OPERATION
31/03/2025
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF WIND TURBINE WAKES FOR MULTI-SCALE GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
05/12/2024
DAER SUMMER SCHOOL 2024
15/07/2024
PoliMI @ AWEC2024
07/05/2024
BUILD2FLY PROJECT: TWO FRENCH STUDENTS FLY ACROSS EUROPE WITH THE AIRPLANE THEY BUILT THEMSELVES
07/05/2024
OPENDAY 2024: BUILD THE FUTURE
07/04/2024
PASSION IN ACTION: PRIMA EDIZIONE DEL CORSO DI "FONDAMENTI DI ACROBAZIA AEREA"
05/04/2024
NEW HORIZON EU PROJECT SUDOCO ON WIND FARM CONTROL
26/10/2023
ALESSANDRO CROCE, KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT ENCIT2022
06/11/2022
LE “TORRI” E LE “NAVI” CON LE “ALI”
17/10/2022
OPENDAY POLIMI 2022
02/04/2022
KICK-OFF FOR FLOATING WIND ENERGY NETWORK (FLOAWER)
16/12/2019
GREEN ECONOMY
05/08/2019
OPENDAY POLIMI 2019
06/04/2019
THE SCIENCE OF MAKING TORQUE FROM WIND (TORQUE 2018)
20/06/2018