FULLCOMP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science
Dr. Houssein Nasser is currently a research scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D degree in signal processing in 2006 from Université de Rennes, France. Dr. Nasser has been a visitor scientist for one year at Active Structural Laboratory, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. The research interests of Dr. Nasser include modelling-based design of piezoelectric transducers for structural health monitoring and active control applications with emphasis on experimental aspects. He has been the principal investigator of FNR research project MAFICOMECH (C08/MS/17) and one ongoing FNR research project (CO11/MS/1228375). He supervised two Ph.D. students. Dr. Nasser has co-authored about 26 Scopus referenced papers and he published one European patent on unidirectional piezoelectric transducer (EP2549556A1).
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- Assistant Professor at Politecnico
Dr. Marco Petrolo is an assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino. He works in the MUL 2 group, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Petrolo's research activity deals with the structural analysis of composite lifting surfaces; refined beam, plate and shell models; component-wise approaches, damage analysis, and axiomatic/asymptotic analyses. He is author and co-author of some 90 publications, including two books and 40 journal articles (h index = 17, Scopus). He has been involved in the coordination of some European projects, including the Marie Curie project FULLCOMP.
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- Member of the Head of the Composites Group at the Institute of Structural Analysis of Leibniz Universität Hannover
Dr. ir. Eelco Jansen is a senior faculty member, head of the Composites group at the Institute of Structural Analysis of Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2009. Formerly he was an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Structures Group. His area of research is the analysis of composite materials and structures, and he has a particular experience in buckling and nonlinear vibration analysis of structures.
Professor Erasmo Carrera introduced the CUF (Carrera Unified Formulation) as a tool to build a new framework in which beam, plate, and shell theories can be developed for metallic and composite multilayered structures under mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic loadings. He has authored some 500 publications, including books and international journal papers, with h-index of 38 (Scopus). He is a Highly Cited Researcher (top 100 Scientist) by Thompson Reuters in two sections, engineering and materials. During the last two decades, he has supervised tens of PhD and MSc students. Furthermore, he has recently coordinated two European Projects and organized two international conferences on composite structures. Carrera is the chief organizer of the next Italian Congress of aeronautics and astronautics.
"Composite Materials and Structures in Aerospace Engineering", edited by E. Carrera, include some keynote contributions on composite structures presented in the FullComp Minisymposium at the AIDAA 2015 conference held on 17-19 Nov 2015, Turin. Available here. Composite structures are massively exploited in many engineering fields. For instance, the state-of-the-art civil aircraft (B787...
Frederic Dau is graduated from ENS Cachan in France. He obtained successfully the so-called Agregation diploma (the main diploma from ENS Cachan, ranked 17th out of 76 successful candidates on all France) allowing to teach in University and Engineering schools. At the same time, he also obtained his advanced studies degree in mechanical engineering (equivalent of today master of sciences) ending top of his class. He received his PhD in 2004 from ENSAM Paris, France for his work on a new C1 shell finite element with double curvature based on a refined model for linear and nonlinear problems of structural composites. He has been recruited as associate professor in 2007 at ENSAM Bordeaux, France and promoted to the highest rank in this corps in 2012. He holds now the position of head of research projects in his laboratory and is a very active member of various scientific councils and committees. He remains also very involved in innovative education projects. More details can be found here.
Dr. Giunta received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 2008 at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently senior R&D engineer at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. Over the last years, he has been working on the development of advanced methods and tools for the multi-scale thermo-piezo-mechanical modelling and simulation of composite, sandwich and functionally graded materials and structures (beams, plates and shells) accounting for failure. He also has been working on the finite element method as well as meshless approaches. He has been the principal investigator of the FNR CORE project FUNCTIONALLY (C09/MS/05). He supervised two Ph.D. students. Dr. Giunta serves as peer reviewer for several international journals and national funding agencies. Amongst the others, he has co-authored about 40 Scopus referenced papers and a book on higher-order beam models. His full CV can be found here.
Georgios Balokas holds two undergraduate degrees, one from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a second from the School of Civil Engineering; both from the respective departments of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also earned his MSc degree in Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures from the same university in 2015. As a student he dealt with computational analysis and implementation of composite materials in wind turbine blades within his undergraduate dissertations and he also published several relative papers. His MSc dissertation is about the seismic risk assessment and the modeling of frame structures using stochastic finite elements. In the past, he has been occupied as a structural design engineer and an analyst and participated in several structural engineering projects in Greece. A detailed CV can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgebalokas
Ibrahim Kaleel is a PhD student at Politecnico di Torino under the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network project FULLCOMP. He earned his Master of Science degree in Computational Engineering from Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Germany in 2015. He undertook his master thesis at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany on the topic: "Numerical Simulation of Micro-scale Contact Models using FEM". Additional research activities in the field of FEM and machine learning were also undertaken at Institute of Static and Dynamic and Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum. He completed his Bachelor degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India. As a part of the bachelor degree, he undertook his final project in Honeywell Technology Solutions Limited, Bangalore. He has also participated in exchange programs, competitions and conferences across Europe and USA. His research activity as a part of FULLCOMP project includes development of numerical frameworks for classical and nano composites based on Carrera Unified Formulation.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at Arts
Dr. Girardot is an assistant professor at Arts et Métiers and the Institute of mechanics and engineering (I2M) in Bordeaux, France. After his PH.D. in 2014 in the field of the laser/matter interaction and a two years fellowship dealing with the mechanical behavior of weaving based reinforcement composites, his research activities focuses now on the dynamic mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials, especially those where non-linear contacts and fragmentations occur. Both experimental (gas gun, drop tower, dynamic fracture) and numerical (particle methods, proper generalized decomposition) developments are set to contribute significantly to the understanding of the phenomena occurring in materials such as textiles, entangled and organic-based composites materials.
Li Guohong is a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Torino, and a member of the FullComp team as an ESR under the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network. He earned his master's degree in Aircraft Design at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 2014, with a thesis on simulation of composite stiffened panels with defects, sponsored by Aviation Industry Corporation of China. He also participated in several research projects on buckling/post-buckling and failure analysis of composite structures during his postgraduate period, in cooperation with AVIC, COMAC, et al. He worked as FEA Engineer at Tenneco China Engineering Centre (Shanghai) for one year (2014-2015), responsible for product validation through numerical simulation techniques. He got his bachelor's degree in Engineering Mechanics at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2007. His research activity as part of the FullComp project will be focused on the development of variable, mixed, linear and nonlinear kinematic shell formulations including thermal, igrothermal, piezo and magnetic effects.
Lorenzo Cappelli is a Ph.D. student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers and a member of the FullComp team under the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network. He has prepared his Bachelor thesis about "Basic simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems - FSI". Then, he has obtained his Master of Science degree "cum laude" on Aerospace Engineering with Aeronautical Structure specialization by performing the Master of Science thesis on "Aerodynamic optimization of a large PrandtlPlane configuration", in the University of Pisa. Then, a continuous cooperation with the University of Pisa has been carry on, in order to develop the Master thesis studies, by applying the PrandtlPlane aerodynamic optimization method to the P180 Avanti II aircraft of Piaggio Aerospace industries. Lorenzo Cappelli has worked also for several months as Aerospace Engineer with specialization in Structures in an engineering consulting company and the job consisted both in analytical and numerical computations (FEM and Multibody Dynamics Simulations), with a continuous cooperation with the team members; moreover, experimental tests were often carry on, in order to validate the numerical results. The main fields of studies were in aeronautical, automotive and industrial automation.
Dr. Montemurro received his Ph.D. in Mechanics in 2012 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI France for his work entitled "Optimal Design of Advanced Engineering Modular Systems through a New Genetic Approach" wherein he developed a new genetic algorithm for dealing with optimisation problems with "a variable number of design variables". Formerly (2012-2013) he was full-time assistant professor at the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (Université de Lorraine) and member of theoretical and applied mechanics and energetics laboratory (LEMTA) at GIP-InSIC. From September 2013 he is associate professor at Arts et Métiers ParisTech in Bordeaux. Over the last years, his research activities focused on the development of numerical algorithms for both parametric optimisation (gradient-based and metaheuristics) and shape/topology optimisation (level-set method, B-spline and NURBS-based strategies, etc.), on the development of numerical strategies for the optimum design of advanced engineering modular structures and on the multi-scale modelling of hybrid anisotropic structures. Currently, he is involved in the regional project FUTURPROD (which focuses on the development of analytical/numerical methods and procedures for designing industrial components fabricated by means of additive manufacturing processes) and he is working on the development of homogenisation techniques (both analytical and numerical) for heterogeneous and/or cellular materials. Dr. Montemurro is author or co-author of about 13 Scopus referenced papers. Furthermore, he serves as a peer reviewer for several international journals. His full CV can be found here.
Mayank Patni is a Ph.D. student at University of Bristol, U.K., enrolled in the FullComp team under the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network. He earned the Bachelor of Engineering degree (Mechanical) from Devi Ahilya University, India in 2010 and the Master of Technology degree (Applied Mechanics) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in 2012. In his Master's thesis he worked on ‘Active Vibration Control of Functionally Graded Material Structures'. He was also involved in a couple of rural development projects at IIT Delhi and participated in various national and Asian conferences.
He worked as an Application Engineer at ANSYS Inc., Pune (July 2012 - January, 2016), responsible for solving customer's modeling and simulation queries. He conducted over 45 trainings in the area of Linear Static, Structural dynamics, Contact and Material Non-linearity and Thermal analysis using ANSYS. Besides, he was a part-time lecturer at Institutes (The GATE Academy and Career Avenues) in India, (2012-2015) where he taught Solid Mechanics, Thermal Engineering and Engineering Mathematics to undergraduate students. His research activity as part of the FULLCOMP project is related to the design and optimization of composite structures through advanced models based on Carrera Unified Formulation, with particular attention paid to the buckling analysis of thin-walled shells and to the design of aerospace structures.
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Lightweight Structures at the University of Bristol
Paul Weaver is a Chair in Lightweight Structures at the University of Bristol and until recently was its Engineering Faculty Research Director. He also directs the Advanced Composite Centre Innovation and Science's (ACCIS) Centre for Doctoral Training. He has published in excess of 200 refereed papers, has 5 patents and graduated 25 PhD students. He has worked on composite structures and their design since 1987, firstly at Newcastle University and what was then Courtauld's Aerospace on his PhD with braided tube structures, before joining Prof Mike Ashby and his materials selection research group as a postdoc at Cambridge University. Paul then joined Bristol University in 1998, becoming an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow from 2002-2007 and then gaining his Chair in 2009. During this time Paul was a regular visitor and consultant to NASA Langley on buckling and postbuckling design methods of plate and shell structures. He has worked with Airbus on various projects since 1999 and has delivered methods for coupled stress/temperature modelling for what was then the A3XX, buckling solutions for anisotropic plates, optimisation methods for composite plates, design for stringer plate terminations and most recently on spatially variable stiffness composite plates. His anisotropic blade concept for the BERP IV blade is flying on AgustaWestland EH101 helicopters.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Structural Analysis, Head of the Institute of Structural Analysis of Leibniz Universität Hannover
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes is a professor of structural analysis, head of the Institute of Structural Analysis of Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2005. He has more than two decades of experience in developing and validating advanced numerical tools for composite materials and structures. Formerly he was the head of the structural analysis department at DLR in Braunschweig. Prof. Rolfes participated in various large international and German research and industry projects on composite structures for aircraft, space and wind energy applications. He has contributed to more than 200 scientific publications, including more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals.
Job Titles:
- Student at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Sander van den Broek is a PhD student at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He is enrolled in the Fullcomp team under the Marie Skłodowska Curie European training network. He earned his bachelor's degree at the Amsterdam University of Applied sciences in the field of Engineering, Design and Innovation. He continued his education at Delft University of Technology where he graduated with distinction with a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, supervised by prof. Fred van Keulen.
During his studies in Delft he was the recipient of the Justus and Louise van Effen research grant. This allowed him to perform research for his master's thesis at the University of Michigan, under the supervision of prof. Joaquim Martins. His master thesis focused on the development of an aeroelastic model to analyze wind turbine blades.
After graduating from his master's degree he worked at Allseas Engineering B.V. for two years as an R&D Engineer. During this time he researched steel wire ropes, sea fastening and other project related to operational improvements.
His research within FullComp deals with reduced order models and how probabilistic inputs affect the post-buckling stability of composite structures.
Sergio Minera is a Ph.D. student at University of Bristol, U.K., enrolled in the FullComp team under the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network. He earned his BSc in Physics at Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, 2008, and his MSc in Mathematical Modelling in Engineering at Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy, 2011. He has worked for several companies developing mathematical models and algorithms for optimization of processes, forecasting, logistics, operations research and simulations. He also worked as university teacher at the Physics, Mathematics and Economics Departments at Universidad Del Valle, Universidad Francisco Marroquín and Universidad Rafael Landivar. In the last years he has been involved in the aviation as a commercial pilot and flight instructor. His research activity, as part of the FullComp project, will be related to the Buckling Analysis of thin Shells using Carrera Unified Formulation.
Job Titles:
- Position of Project Manager and R & D Coordinator at ELAN - AUSY
Steffen Czichon currently holds the position of Project Manager and R&D Coordinator at ELAN-AUSY in Hamburg. He has studied Computational Engineering at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, where he also received his Ph.D. for his work on numerical analysis to predict the influence of production induced porosity defects on the mechanical response of composite materials in 2013. Since 2012, he has worked as a Stress Engineer in the development of sizing methods for aerospace structures (A350, A380) and has been involved in various development projects for composite structures in aerospace, automotive and wind energy industry. Steffen Czichon is an active member of the LTH Structural Analysis group (IASB, publisher of the Aeronautical Engineering Handbook).
Dr. Koutsawa received his PhD degree in Mechanics of Materials in 2008 at the University of Lorraine, France. He is currently Associate Scientist at the Materials Research and Technology department of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. The research areas of Dr. Koutsawa are computational micromechanics, multi-scale computational homogenization and computational mechanics. Over the past years, he has been working on advanced computational approaches for predicting the multi-physics behaviors (responses) of composite materials and structures. Dr. Koutsawa has been the principal investigator of the FNR CORE project (ASPIEZO/787395) on the sensitive design of multi-functional piezoelectric polymer composites based on hierarchical multi-scale modeling approaches. He has supervised three PhD thesis on multi-scale computational homogenization and Taylor series based mesh-free approaches. Dr. Koutsawa has co-authored about 40 Scopus referenced papers.