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Project Manager, Navalprogetti
Spartaco Angelini graduated at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Alessandro Volta (Trieste) in 1964, with specialization in mechanics. He has more than 40 years experience in the shipyard industry. He currently works at Navalprogetti Srl as...
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Engineer, HI-SEAS project
Ansley Barnard, and engineer from Reno, NV, is the Engineering Officer for Mission V. She is in charge of monitoring their life support systems and fixing things that break down. She is passionate about performance vehicles by land, air and...
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Technical Manager, Enginsoft UK
John Barnes holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University. He has gained 13 years of experience at TASS (Vehicle Crash Safety), Jaguar Land Rover (Body CAE), and as onsite consultant for Fiat,...
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Human Resources Manager, ESTECO
Sergio Benedetti graduated in Electronical Engineering at the University of Trieste. After many years of experience in ESTECO as a Software Developer and manager of the Enterprise Applications Team, he started focusing on improvement of the...
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Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO) Group Leader, Cummins
Kevin Brittain worked for Cummins in structural analysis for 6 years. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011 with an emphasis on structural optimization. Currently he is...
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Business Development Engineer - Automotive, e-Xstream Engineering
After being graduated for his Master of Science on structural FEA in 1998, Sylvain Calmels worked for 5 years for Bertrand AG as structural engineer before joining PSA Peugeot Citroen group in 2006 as specialist in innovation and validation of...
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Senior Technical Consultant, MSC Software
Angelo Casolo graduated in Mechanical Engineer at Polytechnic University of Turin in 2000 with a Thesis on the development of a metal-plastic component for a body chassis in collaboration with Fiat Research Center. He got a research grant for...
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CFD Simulation Engineer, Ford OTOSAN
Baran Celikten holds a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering and a M.Sc in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow at Istanbul Technical University. He works at Ford OTOSAN and conducts doctoral studies in Heat Transfer and Fluid...
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CAE Engineer, SACMI Imola S.C.
Riccardo Cenni hold a Master Degree in Energetic Engineering at Bologna University. He also received a PhD in Structural Optimization at Modena and Reggio Emilia University, PhD school of “High mechanics and automotive design &...
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Supervisor, BETA CAE Systems S.A.
Serafim Chatzimoisiadis has studied Mechanical Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and has a Master degree in “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development” at the...
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Scientific Programme Manager of ESOF 2020, ESOF Committee (FIT)
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Product Manager, ESTECO
Danilo Di Stefano graduated in Physical Chemistry from the University of Padova, and completed a Master's programme in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna. After three years of experience as a Scientist at the Area...
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Data Engineer for Numerical Computation, PSA Group
He joined PSA Peugeot Citroen as statistician engineer in 2002 and worked on engine’s calibration methodologies for emission optimization. From 2009 to 2010 he was in charge of training for design teams on quality methodologies for...
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Engineer, Idrostudi srl
Stefano Fiorindo holds a M.Sc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy. His Master Thesis was entitled “The Water Distribution Systems sectorization: an innovative approach based on genetic algorithms and...
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Research assistant, Loge
Tim Franken is a PhD student at the chair thermodynamics and thermal process engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. He studied at the universities in Cologne and in Cottbus and finished with a master’s degree...
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Professor, Director of Dept. Eng. Arch., University of Trieste
Ilaria Garofolo is currently Professor of Building Technology at the University of Trieste, and Director of the Department of Engineering and Architecture. Former Researcher and Associated Professor at the University of Trento, Faculty of...
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Architect Engineer, Giouris Civil Engineering Consultants
Evangelia-Despoina Giouri's specialization field concerns Architecture and Building Technology focused on parametric climate design. She holds a Master (Meng) degree in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (...
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Manager, Aerodynamic Department, IAI Israel Aerospace Industries
Ohad Gur received is PhD in in Aerospace engineering in 2007 at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). From 1996 to 2001 he was Captain at Israel Air Force (IAF), Flight Science Branch, Performance Group. From 2001...
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Professor, ENSTA ParisTech
Omar Hammami is a Professor at ENSTA/DGA since 2000. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1993 with ENSEEIH, Toulouse, and Associate Professor with the University of Aizu, Japan, from 1993 to 2000. He...
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Assistant Chief Engineer, HONDA R&D Co.,Ltd., Automobile R&D Center
With more than 10 years’ experience in pedestrian protection and CAE for structural analysis, Osamu Ito has been at Honda R&D Japan since 2006. He received his Master’s degree in Physics at Tokyo University of Science. He started his...
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Structural Engineer, Computational Architect, Takenaka Corporation
As a specialist in computational design, Takuma Kawakami has been working in the several architectural projects since joined Takenaka Corporation. He also has extensive experience in the structural design of architecture and...
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Professor and Site Director, NSF Center for e-Design, Wayne State University
Kyoung-Yun Kim is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, where he directs the Computational Intelligence and Design Informatics (CInDI) Laboratory. Dr. Kim’s research...
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Scientific Director, LIFT
Giovanni Longo received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1993 and is PhD in Transport Engineering since 1997. He is professor of “Transport Planning”, “Transport System Design” and “Railway Operations” at the...
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CFD Specialist, MICAD
He holds a M.Sc in Aerospace Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II with a thesis work about analyses, using Virtual Disk models on CFD solvers, of aerodynamic characteristics of a wing-propeller interaction, focusing...
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Research Assistant, FESB, University of Split
Ivo Marinić-Kragić is Reasearch Assistant who recently finished his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia. The main topic of the doctoral thesis was...
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Performance Engineer and CAE senior analyst, Iveco
Andrea Morello holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico of Torino with a thesis on ground vehicles. He is currently in charge of handling and ride performance at Iveco (CNH Industrial Group) for their full gamma of light, medium and...
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Business Development Manager, ESTECO
Alexandre Mugnai performed engineering studies at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He joined TNO in 1997 as support engineer for MADYMO (passive safety) and grew into passive safety engineering / program management, and later opened the TNO office in...
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Product Manager Enterprise Solutions, ESTECO
Matteo Nicolich is the Enterprise Solutions Product Manager at ESTECO. In this role he is in charge of client engagement management, requirements gathering and roadmap building. He is also responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining...
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Scientific Advisor, ESTECO
Enrico Nobile, Mechanical Engineer, is Full Professor of Thermodynamics and Thermal-fluids at the University of Trieste. He has a post graduate degree diploma from Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Belgium. He is one of the founders...
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Chief Technology Officer, ESTECO
Luka Onesti graduated in Electronics Engineering at the University of Trieste and subsequently was visiting researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway). He was involved in the European founded project Frontier and has been one of the original...
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Principal Engineer, Mahindra & Mahindra
Sairam Peddi is currently working at Mahindra & Mahindra as Principal Engineer--Vehicle Crash, Safety & Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO) and previously worked as Senior Lead Engineer at General Motors and CAE Analyst at TATA JOHNSON...
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NVH CAE Engineer, Ford Motors Company
Fabio Pedroso de Lima holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineer with emphasis in Automotive from FEI Engineering University in Sao Paulo – Brazil and MSc in Automotive Product Engineering from Cranfield University UK. He has gained 12 years of...
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Research Assistant, Purdue University
Matteo Pellegri obtained his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering from University of Parma (Italy). He's currently working on his Ph.D. at Purdue University (Lafayette IN, USA) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Vacca. His...
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President, ESTECO SpA
A Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trieste, Carlo Poloni co-founded ESTECO in 1999. He previously worked at Aeritalia and Sincrotrone Trieste and joined the University of Trieste as a researcher with a focus on...
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Vice President, CIMdata
Stan Przybylinski is responsible for CIMdata's research agenda, including the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report series, recognized as one of the best and most complete sources of market data on the global PLM market. Other research interests...
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CAE Specialist, Ergolines Lab
Andrea Santoro graduated in 2012 in Mechanical Engineering at “University of Trieste”. Since then he has been working in Ergolines Lab Srl (Area Science Park, Trieste) as a numerical specialist in electromagnetic and fluid mechanics...
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Mechanical Engineer, University of Trieste
Giulio Scrimali graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trieste (Italy). In 2016 he participated in an Internship with Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. He spent his master thesis internship at the European research center...
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MSc student, University of Trieste, ESTECO
Elisabetta Sergi is a master degree student in Physics at University of
Trieste. She has also been working at ESTECO SpA since 2017, beloging to the Numerical Method Group.
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Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Rich Snyder is a Senior Research Aerospace Engineer in the Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center (MSTC) of the Aerospace Systems Directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Ohio...
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EMEA Regional Coordinator, Whirlpool Corporation
Nukul Sugandhi graduated with a B.Tech + M.Tech (Dual Degree) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010. He has around 8 years of experience in Process and Product design industry and is associated with Whirlpool’s Global Technology...
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Director, Structural & Dynamic Analysis, Cummins
With more than 25 years’ experience in the design and development of IC engines and 15 years’ in analysis-led design tools and methods, Bob Tickel has been at Cummins since 1988. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering at...
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Technical Expert MDO & P/T Attributes Balancing, Volvo Cars
Dr. M. Törmänen finished his Ph.D. in Vehicle Engineering in 2001 at the department of Machine and Vehicle Systems at Chalmers University of Technology. He has joined Volvo Car Corporation in 2005 to work with...
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Professor, University of Strathclyde
Massimiliano Vasile is currently Professor of Space Systems Engineering and director of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Before starting his...
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Professor, University of Split
Damir Vucina is a Professor at FESB, University of Split, Croatia. His got his academic degrees from Columbia University, New York and University in Zagreb. His research interests include 3D shape acquisition and parameterization, numerical analysis...
Project Manager, NavalprogettiSpartaco Angelini graduated at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Alessandro Volta (Trieste) in 1964, with specialization in mechanics. He has more than 40 years experience in the shipyard industry. He currently works at Navalprogetti Srl as...
Engineer, HI-SEAS projectAnsley Barnard, and engineer from Reno, NV, is the Engineering Officer for Mission V. She is in charge of monitoring their life support systems and fixing things that break down. She is passionate about performance vehicles by land, air and...
Technical Manager, Enginsoft UKJohn Barnes holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University. He has gained 13 years of experience at TASS (Vehicle Crash Safety), Jaguar Land Rover (Body CAE), and as onsite consultant for Fiat,...
Human Resources Manager, ESTECOSergio Benedetti graduated in Electronical Engineering at the University of Trieste. After many years of experience in ESTECO as a Software Developer and manager of the Enterprise Applications Team, he started focusing on improvement of the...
Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO) Group Leader, CumminsKevin Brittain worked for Cummins in structural analysis for 6 years. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011 with an emphasis on structural optimization. Currently he is...
Business Development Engineer - Automotive, e-Xstream EngineeringAfter being graduated for his Master of Science on structural FEA in 1998, Sylvain Calmels worked for 5 years for Bertrand AG as structural engineer before joining PSA Peugeot Citroen group in 2006 as specialist in innovation and validation of...
Senior Technical Consultant, MSC SoftwareAngelo Casolo graduated in Mechanical Engineer at Polytechnic University of Turin in 2000 with a Thesis on the development of a metal-plastic component for a body chassis in collaboration with Fiat Research Center. He got a research grant for...
CFD Simulation Engineer, Ford OTOSANBaran Celikten holds a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering and a M.Sc in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow at Istanbul Technical University. He works at Ford OTOSAN and conducts doctoral studies in Heat Transfer and Fluid...
CAE Engineer, SACMI Imola S.C.Riccardo Cenni hold a Master Degree in Energetic Engineering at Bologna University. He also received a PhD in Structural Optimization at Modena and Reggio Emilia University, PhD school of “High mechanics and automotive design &...
Supervisor, BETA CAE Systems S.A.Serafim Chatzimoisiadis has studied Mechanical Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and has a Master degree in “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development” at the...
Scientific Programme Manager of ESOF 2020, ESOF Committee (FIT)
Product Manager, ESTECODanilo Di Stefano graduated in Physical Chemistry from the University of Padova, and completed a Master's programme in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna. After three years of experience as a Scientist at the Area...
Data Engineer for Numerical Computation, PSA GroupHe joined PSA Peugeot Citroen as statistician engineer in 2002 and worked on engine’s calibration methodologies for emission optimization. From 2009 to 2010 he was in charge of training for design teams on quality methodologies for...
Engineer, Idrostudi srlStefano Fiorindo holds a M.Sc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy. His Master Thesis was entitled “The Water Distribution Systems sectorization: an innovative approach based on genetic algorithms and...
Research assistant, LogeTim Franken is a PhD student at the chair thermodynamics and thermal process engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. He studied at the universities in Cologne and in Cottbus and finished with a master’s degree...
Professor, Director of Dept. Eng. Arch., University of TriesteIlaria Garofolo is currently Professor of Building Technology at the University of Trieste, and Director of the Department of Engineering and Architecture. Former Researcher and Associated Professor at the University of Trento, Faculty of...
Architect Engineer, Giouris Civil Engineering ConsultantsEvangelia-Despoina Giouri's specialization field concerns Architecture and Building Technology focused on parametric climate design. She holds a Master (Meng) degree in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (...
Manager, Aerodynamic Department, IAI Israel Aerospace IndustriesOhad Gur received is PhD in in Aerospace engineering in 2007 at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). From 1996 to 2001 he was Captain at Israel Air Force (IAF), Flight Science Branch, Performance Group. From 2001...
Professor, ENSTA ParisTechOmar Hammami is a Professor at ENSTA/DGA since 2000. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1993 with ENSEEIH, Toulouse, and Associate Professor with the University of Aizu, Japan, from 1993 to 2000. He...
Assistant Chief Engineer, HONDA R&D Co.,Ltd., Automobile R&D CenterWith more than 10 years’ experience in pedestrian protection and CAE for structural analysis, Osamu Ito has been at Honda R&D Japan since 2006. He received his Master’s degree in Physics at Tokyo University of Science. He started his...
Structural Engineer, Computational Architect, Takenaka CorporationAs a specialist in computational design, Takuma Kawakami has been working in the several architectural projects since joined Takenaka Corporation. He also has extensive experience in the structural design of architecture and...
Professor and Site Director, NSF Center for e-Design, Wayne State UniversityKyoung-Yun Kim is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, where he directs the Computational Intelligence and Design Informatics (CInDI) Laboratory. Dr. Kim’s research...
Scientific Director, LIFTGiovanni Longo received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1993 and is PhD in Transport Engineering since 1997. He is professor of “Transport Planning”, “Transport System Design” and “Railway Operations” at the...
CFD Specialist, MICADHe holds a M.Sc in Aerospace Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II with a thesis work about analyses, using Virtual Disk models on CFD solvers, of aerodynamic characteristics of a wing-propeller interaction, focusing...
Research Assistant, FESB, University of SplitIvo Marinić-Kragić is Reasearch Assistant who recently finished his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia. The main topic of the doctoral thesis was...
Performance Engineer and CAE senior analyst, IvecoAndrea Morello holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico of Torino with a thesis on ground vehicles. He is currently in charge of handling and ride performance at Iveco (CNH Industrial Group) for their full gamma of light, medium and...
Business Development Manager, ESTECOAlexandre Mugnai performed engineering studies at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He joined TNO in 1997 as support engineer for MADYMO (passive safety) and grew into passive safety engineering / program management, and later opened the TNO office in...
Product Manager Enterprise Solutions, ESTECOMatteo Nicolich is the Enterprise Solutions Product Manager at ESTECO. In this role he is in charge of client engagement management, requirements gathering and roadmap building. He is also responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining...
Scientific Advisor, ESTECOEnrico Nobile, Mechanical Engineer, is Full Professor of Thermodynamics and Thermal-fluids at the University of Trieste. He has a post graduate degree diploma from Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Belgium. He is one of the founders...
Chief Technology Officer, ESTECOLuka Onesti graduated in Electronics Engineering at the University of Trieste and subsequently was visiting researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway). He was involved in the European founded project Frontier and has been one of the original...
Principal Engineer, Mahindra & MahindraSairam Peddi is currently working at Mahindra & Mahindra as Principal Engineer--Vehicle Crash, Safety & Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO) and previously worked as Senior Lead Engineer at General Motors and CAE Analyst at TATA JOHNSON...
NVH CAE Engineer, Ford Motors CompanyFabio Pedroso de Lima holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineer with emphasis in Automotive from FEI Engineering University in Sao Paulo – Brazil and MSc in Automotive Product Engineering from Cranfield University UK. He has gained 12 years of...
Research Assistant, Purdue UniversityMatteo Pellegri obtained his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering from University of Parma (Italy). He's currently working on his Ph.D. at Purdue University (Lafayette IN, USA) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Vacca. His...
President, ESTECO SpAA Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trieste, Carlo Poloni co-founded ESTECO in 1999. He previously worked at Aeritalia and Sincrotrone Trieste and joined the University of Trieste as a researcher with a focus on...
Vice President, CIMdataStan Przybylinski is responsible for CIMdata's research agenda, including the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report series, recognized as one of the best and most complete sources of market data on the global PLM market. Other research interests...
CAE Specialist, Ergolines LabAndrea Santoro graduated in 2012 in Mechanical Engineering at “University of Trieste”. Since then he has been working in Ergolines Lab Srl (Area Science Park, Trieste) as a numerical specialist in electromagnetic and fluid mechanics...
Mechanical Engineer, University of TriesteGiulio Scrimali graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trieste (Italy). In 2016 he participated in an Internship with Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. He spent his master thesis internship at the European research center...
MSc student, University of Trieste, ESTECOElisabetta Sergi is a master degree student in Physics at University of Trieste. She has also been working at ESTECO SpA since 2017, beloging to the Numerical Method Group.
Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, U.S. Air Force Research LaboratoryRich Snyder is a Senior Research Aerospace Engineer in the Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center (MSTC) of the Aerospace Systems Directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Ohio...
EMEA Regional Coordinator, Whirlpool CorporationNukul Sugandhi graduated with a B.Tech + M.Tech (Dual Degree) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010. He has around 8 years of experience in Process and Product design industry and is associated with Whirlpool’s Global Technology...
Director, Structural & Dynamic Analysis, CumminsWith more than 25 years’ experience in the design and development of IC engines and 15 years’ in analysis-led design tools and methods, Bob Tickel has been at Cummins since 1988. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering at...
Technical Expert MDO & P/T Attributes Balancing, Volvo CarsDr. M. Törmänen finished his Ph.D. in Vehicle Engineering in 2001 at the department of Machine and Vehicle Systems at Chalmers University of Technology. He has joined Volvo Car Corporation in 2005 to work with...
Professor, University of StrathclydeMassimiliano Vasile is currently Professor of Space Systems Engineering and director of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Before starting his...
Professor, University of SplitDamir Vucina is a Professor at FESB, University of Split, Croatia. His got his academic degrees from Columbia University, New York and University in Zagreb. His research interests include 3D shape acquisition and parameterization, numerical analysis...