Current Academic Activities
• Professor of Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics in green industrial applications, and Lab of Signal Analysis and Mechatronics, at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, La Sapienza University, Rome. Former lecturer of the Mechanical Background and Mechanical Vibrations courses, at the same Faculty.
• National Scientific Qualification 09/A2 II band obtained on 10/05/2019, in the 2018-2020 session
• Research fields include Vehicle Dynamics, Vibration Mechanics, Signal Analysis and Structure Dynamics. In the last three years the research activity has been divided into three areas: i) a first area concerns signal analysis and structural monitoring, through the combined use of PCA and SDA, or time-frequency approaches such as HHT and Wavelet transform, often combined with a large number of acquisition sensors. A second area concerns dynamical systems, in which a technique has been developed to indirectly control the inertial properties of a rigid body system by modifying, semi-actively, the viscosity of some tunable dampers. Also in this case, the study of the response of the system through HHT allowed to understand the strongly nonlinear behaviour exhibited by the system. In the third area of research concerned vehicle dynamics, a new paradigm was developed for the control of a swarm of moving vehicles, based on the introduction of some random long-range communications in a queue dominated by short-range car tracking dynamics. An algorithm has also been developed that can analyse the sequentially of collisions in rear-end collisions, to easily define the consequent responsibilities between drivers.
• He is the author of more than 50 publications in international scientific journals and a patent.
Previous academic activities
• He was (2008-2020) a researcher at DIMA, and at CNR-INSEAN.
• He was (2007/2008) Engineer at the European Technical Center of Bridgestone, Castel Romano (RM), chemical contract A1; engaged in the design of automotive tires.
Formation
• Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, DIMA.
• Degree 110 laude in Mechanical Engineering, Sapienza, University of Rome.