Dario Zamani obtained his Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering in October 2023, defending a thesis entitled "Defect-driven optimisation of variable angle tow laminates in AFP". In 2021, he earned a Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering with a thesis on Additive Manufacturing for space applications. In November 2023, he started his PhD at the Politecnico di Torino in the MUL2 research group on the topic "Multiphysics and mesoscale models for the analysis and design of variable stiffness composites". His current research topics are defect modelling, machine simulation and multi-objective optimisation of composite structures.

PhD Student at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
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Shabnam Kiasat is a PhD student of aerospace structural engineering at Tehran Polytechnic. She was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Research of Tehran. Starting from June 2021, she pursued a double-degree PhD in mechanical engineering at Politecnico di Torino. Her studies are conducted under the joint supervision of Prof. A. S. Nobari (Tehran Polytechnic and Imperial College London), as well as Prof. Matteo Filippi (Politecnico di Torino). She is an assistant lecturer for dynamics and mechanical vibrations courses at Tehran Polytechnic. Her research primarily focuses on vibration-based methods in Structural Health Monitoring, numerical modeling of damping mechanisms, and the investigation of interlaminar defects in laminates.

PhD Student at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy
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Karim Abu Salem is an aerospace engineer and researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. His main scientific interests cover the aircraft design area, focusing on innovative aircraft architectures and propulsion systems. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2021, with a research related to the multidisciplinary design of the box-wing aircraft configuration. Prior to his PhD, he completed his Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2016. His current research involves aerospace vehicle design and performance analysis, development of multidisciplinary design and optimization tools, studies on non-conventional lifting architectures, analysis of novel propulsion systems for transport aircraft (e.g. electric, hybrid-electric, hydrogen), and flight simulation.

Post-Doc Researcher at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy
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Jianying Hu is currently a lecturer working at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Ningbo University. She gained her Bachelor’s degree in Material Science and Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University in July 2011. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanics at Xi’an Jiaotong University in June 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Zishun Liu. During this period, her main research was the deformation behavior of hydrogel and composite hydrogel structures. In July 2018, she started working at Ningbo University and continued her research on soft materials and composite structures. Then in 2022, she received a scholarship from China Scholarship Council to pursue study as a visiting scholar under the supervision of Prof. Erasmo Carrera in Italy for 12 months. In October 2022, she came to the Politecnico di Torino and joined the MUL2 research group. Her research project is focused on the large deformation of soft material by the Carrera Unified Formulation.

Visiting Scholar at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy
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Giuseppe Palaia is a post-doc researcher of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin. He obtained his Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering in 2016, followed by a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2022 at the University of Pisa. During his Ph.D. studies, he actively contributed to European (PARSIFAL) and Italian (PROSIB) research projects in the field of hybrid-electric aircraft design. His current research interests include multidisciplinary design optimization of hydrogen and hybrid-electric transport aircraft with particular focus on unconventional airframes, and the design of all-electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

Post-Doc Researcher at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy
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Lei Yang is a Ph.D. student at the Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics school of Ningbo University. He gained his Master's Degree in Solid Mechanics at Ningbo University in March 2012. Afterward, he became a lecturer in the School of Intelligent Manufacturing at Taizhou University. From September 2018, he continued his PhD work at Ningbo University under the supervision of Prof. Jianke Du. Then in 2022, he received a scholarship from China Scholarship Council to pursue studies in Italy for 24 months. In October 2022, he came to Politecnico di Torino as a joint PhD in Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Erasmo Carrera. His current research interest includes: magneto-electro-semiconductive (MES) coupling; SAWs propagation; layered composite structures, and CUF.

Visiting PhD student at Politecnico di Torino
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy
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