Stefano Tomassi

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Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Meccanica , 41st cycle (2025-2028)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)

  • Componente Academic Board - Ph.D. programme in Mechanical Engineering

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PhD

Research topic

Use of human body models via finite elements for the assessment of injuries in urban mobility accident scenarios.

Tutors

Keywords

Finite element analysis / Analisi a elementi finiti
Multi-body analysis / Analisi multi-body
Impact and crashworthiness / Resistenza a impatto e crash

Biography

PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. Graduated in Automotive Engineering (LM/33) at Politecnico di Torino in October 2025. The master's thesis work consists of assessing the injuries sustained by a cyclist in a head-on collision with a vehicle. The thesis work was carried out at the Institute of Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart (ITM, Uni Stuttgart). At the same institute, he worked for a month as research assistant on a project in the field of passive safety in the automotive sector. The PhD focuses on the use of human body models for the assessment of injuries in urban mobility accident scenarios. The modeling activity mainly involves the positioning of occupants and pedestrians during and prior to impact. The main technical tools for creating the models are multi-body and finite element methods.
Additional experiences:
  • Team Policumbent (https://www.policumbent.it/it/), March 2021 - March 2025: member of the student team of Politecnico di Torino that develops the fastest human powered vehicles in the world. He actively worked on the development and manufacturing of the chassis made out of carbon fiber. He was mainly involved in the structural analysis and the manufacturing process of the composite components through writing lay-up guidelines and nesting of carbon fiber plies.
  • Student ambassador at Altair Engineering, November 2023 - December 2024: the duties consist of interacting with the student teams that have Altair as technical partner for the development of the projects and support them through initiatives, tutorials and information about the software that can be used. Furthermore, he organised promotional events with the student teams and he created a channel of communication with the teams that still didn't use Altair before and that now are using it.

Skills

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 13: Climate action

Research

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