Alfonso Pagani

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Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)

  • Member Department Council - DIMEAS (DIMEAS)

Profile

Keywords

Aerospace engineering
Aircraft
Composites
Compositi
Computational mechanics
Deployable structures
Moduli pressurizzati
Moduli spaziali
Multiscale modelling
Nonlinear dynamics
Solid mechanics
Spacecraft design
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Biography

Alfonso Pagani serves as associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino. He earned a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at City University of London in 2016 and, earlier, a Ph.D. in Fluid-dynamics (Aeroelasticity) at Politecnico di Torino. Recently, Dr. Pagani has been awarded an EU-H2020 ERC starting grant for an exploratory study into a new approach to the problem of design, manufacturing and analysis of variable stiffness composite materials (www.pre-eco.eu). In 2018, Alfonso joined California Institute of Technology as visiting associate to work on acoustics of meta-materials. Also, he spent research periods at Purdue University in 2016, where he worked on micro-mechanics of fibre-reinforced composites; RMIT Melbourne in 2014; and at Universidade do Porto in 2013. Alfonso is the co-author of some 120 publications. He acts as a reviewer for more than 20 International journals and is associate editor for Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Structures, an Int’l Journal edited by Techno-Press, and International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Springer Nature.

Scientific branch

IIND-01/D - Aerospace Structures and Design
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_1 - Aerospace engineering
PE8_4 - Computational engineering
PE8_12 - Lightweight construction, textile technology
PE8_8 - Materials engineering (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.)

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Awards and Honors

  • Borsa di studio intitolata a Ernesto e Ben Omega Petrazzini conferred by Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy (2012)
  • Premio Aldo Muggia conferred by Associazione Ingegneri e Architetti ex Allievi del Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2012)
  • Ian Marshall's award for the best student paper conferred by International Conference on Composite Structures Committee, Italy (2013)
  • Best Paper Award ACAM8 conferred by National Committee on Applied Mechanics, Australia, Italy (2014)
  • ERC Starting Grant conferred by European Research Council (ERC), Italy (2019)

Fellowships

  • Executive Committee member - NAFEMS - International Association Engineering Modelling, Italia (2018-)
  • Effective member - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Stati Uniti (2017-)
  • Effective member - Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italia (2014-)
  • Effective member - American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Stati Uniti (2013-)
  • Effective member - Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata (AIMETA), Italia (2013-)

Editorial boards

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DYNAMICS AND CONTROL (2020-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • ADVANCES IN AIRCRAFT AND SPACECRAFT SCIENCE (2014-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series

Conferences

  • 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS) (19/10/2020-22/10/2020), Participation to the organizing committee
  • 1st International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS) (17/6/2018-20/6/2018), Participation to the organizing committee
  • 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6) (11/6/2018-15/6/2018), Co-organizer of the minisymposium "Advanced modelling and optimization of straight-fibre and tow-steered composite structures"
  • XXIII Congresso Italiano dell'Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA) (17/11/2015-19/11/2015), Participation to the organizing committee

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Visiting Researcher, presso California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (1/12/2018-31/7/2019)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Purdue University (1/10/2016-30/11/2016)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (1/9/2014-31/12/2014)

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2025/2026 (41. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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