Personal Details
Senior Lecturer
ICE Lab - the Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory (part of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde)
Employment History
December 2018 onwards: Senior Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation for Aerospace Systems, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
January 2012 to November 2018: Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation for Aerospace Systems, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
September 2007 to December 2011: Research Fellow at University of Glasgow, Space Advanced Research Team, School of Engineering. Position funded by Glasgow Research Partnership in Engineering (GRPE).
November 2005 to August 2007: Research assistant at the Politecnico di Torino, Department of Aerospace Engineering. Position funded by the European FP6, in the framework of the research project "Fundamentals of actively controlled flows with trapped vortices" (VortexCell2050). Topic: application of evolutionary and deterministic optimisation techniques to design the shape of trapping vortex cavities.
January 2004 to October 2005: Post-doc position on soft computing techniques applied to the design of aerospace systems at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Aerospace Engineering. Grant of Politecnico di Torino.
January 2001 to December 2003: Ph.D. studentship at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Aerospace Engineering.
September 2000 to March 2001: Internship at Alenia Aerospazio S.p.a. – Space division. Topic: Application of multi-objective genetic algorithms to the optimization of spaceplane ascent trajectories.
May 1999 to July 2000: Military service as Officer of the Italian Navy – Coast Guard, Genoa (Italy) - Security and traffic regulation.
