Pellegrino’s
general area of research is the mechanics of lightweight structures, focusing
on packaging, deployment, shape control and stability. He is currently working
on novel concepts for future space telescopes, spacecraft antennas, and
space-based solar power systems. He is an expert on analysis methods for
stratospheric balloons.
Carrera’s
main research topics are composite materials, finite elements, plates and
shells, postbuckling and stability, smart structures, thermal stress,
aeroelasticity, multibody dynamics, and the design and analysis of non-classical lifting
systems.
Demasi’s
main research interests are in the fields of Composite Structures,
Computational Solid Mechanics, Static and Dynamic Aeroelasticity, Steady and
Unsteady Aerodynamics, Reduced Order Models for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Problems,
Unconventional Wing Configurations, Aeroelasticity of Flapping Wings.
De
Rosa’s main involvements areas are applicability of the energy methods for the
linear systems, use of finite element approach with energetic unknowns,
influence of the sensors on the structural and acoustic measurements,
aero-elasticity and hydro-elasticity of non-lifting plates.
Iaccarino’s
main research interests are the use of computing and data to solve problems in
energy, biomedicine, aerodynamics, propulsion, design, and the multiphysics
simulations, uncertainty quantification and exascale computing.
Magin’s
research interests are hypersonics, atmospheric entry flows, thermal protection
materials, space debris, meteor phenomenon, air-breathing electric propulsion,
kinetic theory, asymptotic fluid solutions, collisional-radiative mechanisms,
gas-surface interaction, catalysis, ablation, pyrolysis, melting, evaporation,
porous media, nonequilibrium plasmas, radiation, rarefied gas effects, multiphysics
computational methods, computational fluid dynamics, stochastic particle
methods, deterministic Boltzmann solvers, uncertainty quantification methods,
Bayesian inference, model validation.
Sakamoto’s
main research areas are Structural dynamics, Geometrically nonlinear finite
element methods and other computational structural analysis methods, Space
structures design, especially design of gossamer systems (membrane and cable
space structures), Attitude determination and control systems for spacecraft,
Systems engineering and project management for small systems/projects.
Calvi has
contributed to several space projects, such as Spacehab, MPLM, Columbus, GOCE.
In 2011 he was appointed Mechanical Lead Engineer of Sentinel-3. He has
contributed to several ECSS documents. He was chairman, technical manager and
co-author of the “Spacecraft Mechanical Loads Analysis Handbook”. He was
lecturer in Spacecraft Mechanical Loads Analysis at the ESTEC Training Centre.
Nowadays he is retired.
- Francesco Picano, University of Padua
The main research interests concern computational fluid dynamics with application to aerodynamics, environmental and biological flows. In particular, the main focus relates to the development and use of computational approaches tailored for high-performance computing facilities in order to contribute to the simulations of complex systems, such as supersonic, multiphase, turbulent flows and fluid-structure interaction problems.
