Giuseppe Giorgi

• 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 Elettrica ed Energetica. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Ingegneria Gestionale e della Produzione. Componente invitato

PhD

• Modellazione numerica e validazione sperimentale di convertitori di energia da moto ondoso ed eolico galleggiante. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Teaching assistant
• Modellazione numerica e validazione sperimentale di convertitori di energia da moto ondoso ed eolico galleggiante. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Main teacher
• Marine Energy. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Teaching assistant

Master of Science

• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Wind and ocean energy plants. A.A. 2022/23, 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. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Project Work. A.A. 2024/25, TECNOLOGIE PER L'INDUSTRIA MANIFATTURIERA. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Project Work. A.A. 2023/24, TECNOLOGIE PER L'INDUSTRIA MANIFATTURIERA. Collaboratore del corso
• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Meccanica delle macchine. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI. Collaboratore del corso
• Controllo dei sistemi meccanici. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso

• Mechatronics and servosystems (DIMEAS)

Projects funded by competitive calls

• MERMAIDS - Marine Economic Rise via Marine Artificial Intelligence Digital-twin and Space, (2024-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Corporate-funded and donor-funded research
• 2DoPe - 2-Degree of freedom Pendulum for wave energy harvesting (2DoPe), (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Corporate-funded and donor-funded research
• NAVIGATE - Nautical Autonomy with Viable Integration of Fuel Cells and Advanced Twin Engineering, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  PNRR – Mission 4
• BLUE-X - BLUE ENERGY OFFSHORE INSTALLATION ACCELERATOR, (2023-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Digital, Industry and Space
• AIMS: Artificial Intelligence to Monitor our Seas, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  PNRR – Mission 4
• WIMBY - 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

Projects funded by commercial contracts

• Offerta studio microclima per impianto eolico Odra , (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Offerta studio microclima per impianto eolico Kailia, (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research

• Francesco Callea. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
• Carola Chicco. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Leonardo Gambarelli. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Davide Issoglio. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Gabriele Mangia. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Ermando Petracca. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (38^th cycle, 2022-in progress)
  Research subject: The research topic focuses on the modeling and optimization of hybrid offshore platforms integrating Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) with Wave Energy Converters (WECs). The aim is to develop r
  
  Aerodynamics / Aerodinamica
  Automation and control / Automazione e controllo
  Multi-body analysis / Analisi multi-body
  Aerodynamics / Aerodinamica
  Automation and control / Automazione e controllo
  Multi-body analysis / Analisi multi-body

• Gambarelli, L.; Pasta, E.; Giorgi, G. (2025)
  Interpolation techniques: A possible way to bypass offshore resource assessment limitations?. In: RENEW 2024, pp. 19-26. ISBN: 9781003558859
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Ghigo, A.; Paduano, B.; Giorgi, G.; Bracco, G. (2025)
  Horizontal and Vertical axis wind turbines: Impacts on the dynamics of a floating wind system. In: 6th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, RENEW 2024, Lisbon, 2024, pp. 679-686. ISBN: 9781003558859
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Callea, Francesco; Martinez-Perurena, Ander; Zarketa-Astigarraga, Ander; Penalba, ... (2024)
  On the temporal sensitivity of the reference data in bias correction techniques for improving metocean datasets. In: Innovations in Renewable Energies Offshore: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbona (POR), 2024, pp. 3-10. ISBN: 978-1-032-90557-0
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Faraggiana, E.; Ghigo, A.; Sirigu, M.; Petracca, E.; Giorgi, G.; Mattiazzo, G.; Bracco, ... (2024)
  Floating offshore wind potential for Mediterranean countries. In: HELIYON, vol. 10. ISSN 2405-8440
  Contributo su Rivista
• Battisti, Beatrice; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Verao Fernandez, Gael (2024)
  Balancing power production and coastal protection: A bi-objective analysis of Wave Energy Converters. In: RENEWABLE ENERGY, vol. 220. ISSN 0960-1481
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorcelli, Filippo; Sirigu, Sergej Antonello; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Faedo, Nicolas Ezequiel; ... (2024)
  Measuring the Robustness of Optimal Design Solutions for Wave Energy Converters via a Stochastic Approach. In: JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 12. ISSN 2077-1312
  Contributo su Rivista
• Ghigo, Alberto; Faraggiana, Emilio; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Mattiazzo, Giuliana; Bracco, ... (2024)
  Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines for offshore applications among potentialities and challenges: A review. In: RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, vol. 193. ISSN 1364-0321
  Contributo su Rivista
• Ghigo, Alberto; Petracca, Ermando; Mangia, Gabriele; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Bracco, Giovanni (2024)
  Development of a floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for the Mediterranean Sea. In: WindEurope Annual Event Bilbao, Bilbao (ESP), 20/03/2024 - 22/03/2024. ISSN 1742-6588
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Moscoloni, Claudio; Chicco, Carola; Giglio, Enrico; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Mattiazzo, Giuliana (2024)
  A Hybrid Alternatives Analysis Of An Offshore Wind Installation In The Mediterranean Sea: How Pivotal Are The Technological Aspects?. In: 37th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, Rhodes (GR), pp. 3379-3390
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2024)
  Performance assessment of a parametric-resonance wave energy converter: change of instability intensity going from regular to irregular waves. In: International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, 16-21 June, pp. 759-765. ISBN: 978-1-880653-78-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Daqaq, Mohammed F.; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Khasawneh, Mohammad A. (2024)
  Deliberate introduction of a nonlinear restoring element to point wave energy absorbers: a review and assessment. In: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 112, pp. 13695-13731. ISSN 0924-090X
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sirigu, Massimo; Ghigo, Alberto; Petracca, Ermando; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Bracco, Giovanni (2024)
  Fatigue assessment of a new concept for a floating barge with pendulum for offshore wind turbines in MOST. In: The science of making torque from wind (Torque 2024), Florence (ITA), 29-31/05/2024. ISSN 1742-6588
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sirigu, Massimo; Gigliotti, Sara; Issoglio, Davide; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Bracco, Giovanni (2024)
  The importance of aeroelasticity in estimating multiaxial fatigue behaviour of large floating offshore wind turbine blades. In: HELIYON, vol. 10. ISSN 2405-8440
  Contributo su Rivista
• Niosi, Francesco; Dell'Edera, Oronzo; Paduano, Bruno; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Bracco, ... (2024)
  Experimental investigation of taut leg moored FOWTs in damaged conditions. In: 6th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, RENEW 2024
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Cervelli, Giulia; Moscoloni, Claudio; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Mattiazzo, Giuliana (2024)
  Optimal Site Selection for Wave Energy Converter Installation on Pantelleria. In: Thirty-fourth (2024) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, 16-21 June, pp. 1101-1107. ISBN: 978-1-880653-78-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Gambarelli, Leonardo; Pasta, Edoardo; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Ferri, Francesco (2024)
  Gaussian Process Regression for extending wave in situ measurements: An experimental campaign.. In: The 34th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, Greece, 16-21 June, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-880653-78-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sirigu, Massimo; Ghigo, Alberto; Giorgi, Giuseppe; Bracco, Giovanni (2024)
  A novel optimisation process for static structural finite element analysis of offshore wind turbine floating foundations. In: International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes (GRC), June 16−21, 2024, pp. 1066-1072. ISBN: 978-1-880653-78-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Carapellese, Fabio; DE CLERCK, Viola; Sirigu, SERGEJ ANTONELLO; Giorgi, Giuseppe; ... (2024)
  Multi-Objective Optimization of an Inertial Wave Energy Converter for Multi-Directional Wave Scatter. In: MACHINES, vol. 12. ISSN 2075-1702
  Contributo su Rivista
• Faraggiana, E.; Ghigo, A.; Sirigu, M.; Petracca, E.; Giorgi, G.; Mattiazzo, G.; Bracco, ... (2024)
  Optimal floating offshore wind farms for Mediterranean islands. In: RENEWABLE ENERGY, vol. 221. ISSN 1879-0682
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2024)
  The onset of instability in a parametric resonance energy harvester under panchromatic excitations. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES, vol. 281. ISSN 0020-7403
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2024)
  Embedding parametric resonance in a 2:1 wave energy converter to get a broader bandwidth. In: RENEWABLE ENERGY. ISSN 0960-1481
  Contributo su Rivista
• Giorgi, Giuseppe (2024)
  How to Generate Electricity From Waves – Principles of Wave Energy Converters. In: Encyclopedia of Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment / S.N., Amsterdam, Elsevier. ISBN: 9780124095489
  Contributo in Volume

• Wave Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Wave Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Wave Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Offshore Wind Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Offshore Wind Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Offshore Wind Platform. national Software
  Inventors: Ettore Francesco Bompard Giovanni Bracco Alberto Ghigo Giuseppe Giorgi Daniele Grosso Giuliana Mattiazzo
• Giropendolo multifunzionale e WEC integrato per la produzione di energia da moto ondoso. national and international Patent
  Inventors: Giovanni Bracco Fabio Carapellese Giuseppe Giorgi Giuliana Mattiazzo Edoardo Pasta Sergej Antonello Sirigu