Dr. Marco Petrolo is an assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino. He works in the MUL² 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.