• Nonlinear mathematical modeling of fluid-structure interactions of wave energy converters; holistic mechanical and techno-economic optimization; prototyping and experimental testing in dry laboratory on hardware-in-the-loop, in wave tanks, and at sea; analysis of the wave resource and development of tools for geographic optimization.

ERC sectors

SDG

• Fellow - European Research Executive Agency (2019-2021)
  H2020-MSCA-IF-2018: Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship - 2018

• Visiting Researcher, presso Instituto Superior Tecnico (1/7/2019-21/12/2019)
• Professore Incaricato Esterno, presso National University of Ireland, Maynooth (7/5/2018-25/5/2018)
• Dottorando, presso National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1/2/2017-30/4/2017)
• Visiting Researcher, presso Ecole Centrale de Nantes (29/8/2016-18/10/2016)

• Collegio di Ingegneria Chimica e dei Materiali. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Ingegneria Energetica. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Ingegneria Meccanica, Aerospaziale, dell'Autoveicolo. Componente invitato

PhD

• Marine Energy. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Teaching assistant

Master of Science

• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso

Projects funded by competitive calls

• Wind In My Backyard: Using holistic modelling tools to advance social awareness and engagement on large wind power installations in the EU, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Climate, Energy and Mobility

• Giglio, Enrico; Petracca, Ermando; Paduano, Bruno; Moscoloni, Claudio; Giorgi, Giuseppe; ... (2023)
  Estimating the Cost of Wave Energy Converters at an Early Design Stage: A Bottom-Up Approach. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 15. ISSN 2071-1050
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, G.; Carapellese, F; Bonfanti, M; Sirigu, S. A. (2023)
  Combining pendulum and gyroscopic effects to step-up wave energy extraction in all degrees of freedom. In: AIMETA, pp. 679-684. ISSN 2474-395X. ISBN: 9781644902431
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Vargiu, Alberto; Novo, Riccardo; Moscoloni, Claudio; Giglio, Enrico; Giorgi, Giuseppe; ... (2022)
  An Energy Cost Assessment of Future Energy Scenarios: A Case Study on San Pietro Island. In: ENERGIES, vol. 15. ISSN 1996-1073
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, Giuseppe; Sirigu, Sergej Antonello (2022)
  Optimization and Energy Maximizing Control Systems for Wave Energy Converters. Basel, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, P. 266. ISBN: 978-3-0365-2825-0
  Libro
• Giorgi, G.; Novo, R.; Cervelli, G.; Bracco, G. (2022)
  Wave energy converters technology database for a web-based platform for evaluating wave energy resource and productivity potential. In: RENEW, Lisbona, pp. 33-41. ISBN: 9781003360773
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Rava, M.; Dafnakis, P.; Martini, V.; Giorgi, G.; Orlando, V.; Mattiazzo, G.; Bracco, G.; ... (2022)
  Low-Cost Heaving Single-Buoy Wave-Energy Point Absorber Optimization for Sardinia West Coast. In: JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 10, pp. 397-416. ISSN 2077-1312
  Contributo su Rivista
• Faedo, N.; Giorgi, G.; Ringwood, J. V.; Mattiazzo, G. (2022)
  Optimal control of wave energy systems considering nonlinear Froude–Krylov effects: control-oriented modelling and moment-based control. In: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 109, pp. 1777-1804. ISSN 0924-090X
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cervelli, G.; Parrinello, L.; Moscoloni, C.; Giorgi, G. (2022)
  Comparison of the ERA5 Wave Forecasting Dataset against Buoy Record. In: INSTRUMENTATION MESURE MÉTROLOGIE, vol. 21, pp. 87-95. ISSN 1631-4670
  Contributo su Rivista
• Faraggiana, Emilio; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Sirigu, Massimo; Ghigo, Alberto; Bracco, Giovanni; ... (2022)
  A review of numerical modelling and optimisation of the floating support structure for offshore wind turbines. In: JOURNAL OF OCEAN ENGINEERING AND MARINE ENERGY. ISSN 2198-6444
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, Giuseppe; Carapellese, Fabio; Mattiazzo, Giuliana (2022)
  Stepping-up Wave Energy Extraction in All Degrees of Freedom by Combining Pendulum and Gyroscopic Effects. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of IFToMM Italy, Napoli, pp. 882-890. ISBN: 978-3-031-10776-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Bonfanti, M; Giorgi, G (2022)
  Improving Computational Efficiency in WEC Design: Spectral-Domain Modelling in Techno-Economic Optimization. In: JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 10. ISSN 2077-1312
  Contributo su Rivista
• Habib, Giuseppe; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Davidson, Josh (2022)
  Coexisting attractors in floating body dynamics undergoing parametric resonance. In: ACTA MECHANICA. ISSN 0001-5970
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, G.; Faedo, N. (2022)
  Performance enhancement of a vibration energy harvester via harmonic time-varying damping: A pseudospectral-based approach. In: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. 165. ISSN 0888-3270
  Contributo su Rivista
• Novo, Riccardo; Marocco, Paolo; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Lanzini, Andrea; Santarelli, Massimo; ... (2022)
  Planning the decarbonisation of energy systems: the importance of applying time series clustering to long-term models. In: ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT. X, vol. 15. ISSN 2590-1745
  Contributo su Rivista
• Carapellese, Fabio; Pasta, Edoardo; Faedo, Nicolas; Giorgi, Giuseppe (2022)
  Dynamic analysis and performance assessment of the Inertial Sea Wave Energy Converter (ISWEC) device via harmonic balance. In: 14th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles (CAMS 2022), Lyngby, Denmark, 14-16 September 2022, pp. 439-444. ISSN 2405-8963
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Bracco, Giovanni; Mattiazzo, Giuliana; Pasta, Edoardo; Sirigu, Antonello; Giorgi, ... (2021)
  Dispositivo giroscopico pendolare per la conversione di energia e sistema per la generazione di energia elettrica comprendente tale dispositivo. N. brevetto: 102021000026360, propr. brevetto: 3 - Politecn. di Torino et al
  Brevetti
• Ransley, E. J.; Brown, S. A.; Hann, M.; Greaves, D. M.; Windt, C.; Ringwood, J.; ... (2021)
  Focused wave interactions with floating structures: A blind comparative study. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. ENGINEERING AND COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS, vol. 174, pp. 46-61. ISSN 1755-0777
  Contributo su Rivista
• Di Muro, A.; Sirigu, S. A.; Giorgi, G.; Gerboni, R.; Bracco, G.; Carpignano, A.; ... (2021)
  Life Cycle Assessment for the ISWEC Wave Energy Device. In: The International Conference of IFToMM ITALY 2020: Advances in Italian Mechanism Science, pp. 515-523. ISSN 2211-0984. ISBN: 978-3-030-55806-2
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Fontana, M.; Sirigu, S. A.; Giorgi, G.; Bracco, G. (2021)
  Expanding Operational Bandwidth and Tuning a Wave Energy Converter Using U-shaped Sloshing Tanks. In: Mechanisms and Machine Science / S.N., S.L., Springer Science and Business Media B.V., pp. 78-86. ISBN: 978-3-030-87382-0
  Contributo in Volume
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2021)
  Computational performance of a fast nonlinear Froude-Krylov force calculation approach for axisymmetric and prismatic floaters. In: 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Plymouth, UK, 5-11 Settembre 2021
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2021)
  Code-to-Code Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Modelling Verification for Wave Energy Converters: WEC-Sim vs. NLFK4ALL. In: 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Plymouth, UK, 5-11 Settembre 2021
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Faedo, N.; Dores Piuma, F. J.; Giorgi, G.; Bracco, G.; Ringwood, J. V.; Mattiazzo, G. (2021)
  Data-driven nonlinear model reduction by moment-matching for the ISWEC system. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2021, mus, 2021, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-1262-9
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Giorgi, G.; Faedo, N.; Mattiazzo, G. (2021)
  Time-varying damping coefficient to increase power extraction from a notional wave energy harvester. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2021, mus, 2021, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-1262-9
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Giorgi, G.; Sirigu, S.; Bonfanti, M.; Bracco, G.; Mattiazzo, G. (2021)
  Fast nonlinear Froude–Krylov force calculation for prismatic floating platforms: a wave energy conversion application case. In: JOURNAL OF OCEAN ENGINEERING AND MARINE ENERGY. ISSN 2198-6444
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, G.; Sirigu, S. A. (2021)
  Optimization and energy maximizing control systems for wave energy converters. In: JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 9. ISSN 2077-1312
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, G.; Bracco, G.; Mattiazzo, G. (2021)
  NLFK4ALL: An Open-Source Demostration Toolbox for Computationally Efficient Nonlinear Froude-Krylov Force Calculations. In: 14th WCCM-ECCOMAS Congress, Virtuale (ex - Parigi), 11-15 Gennaio
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2021)
  Parametric resonance exploitation due to periodic damping in an electromechanical energy harvester. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICS AND CONTROL, vol. 22, pp. 77-87. ISSN 1590-8844
  Contributo su Rivista

• Giropendolo multifunzionale e WEC integrato per la produzione di energia da moto ondoso. national and international Patent - Responsabile Scientifico
  UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Climate, Energy and Mobility