Malerba

Since the past 4 months I have the privilege to collaborate at the Politecnico di Milano with Prof. Pier Giorgio Malerba, serving as teaching assistant for the course of Bridge Theory and Design. The course, taken by second year Master of Science students in Civil and Transportation Engineer, is one of the few that require as partial fulfillment a compulsory final project.
The project focuses on the structural design of a prestressed concrete box girder bridge and I assisted 5 teams of 7-8 students over the entire Fall Semester. My teams did an excellent job: we finished the last revision yesterday and I am looking forward to them delivering the projects and taking the final exam in January and February.
For me it was an exciting experience which fits perfectly with my current job as a Programme Officer in the European Commission and specifically in the Sustainable Transport Unit of the Joint Research Centre.  

Workshop on Identification of Future Emerging Technologies in the Wind power sector, 5th December 2017

I was happy to meet with old friends at the workshop on identification of future emerging technologies in the wind power sector, held yesterday at the JRC in Ispra.
In particular, Francesco Petrini from the University of Rome with whom I worked together for more than 10 years (including a close collaboration in the period 2013-2016 for an ESA funded Energy Harvesting project), Gianni Bartoli (from the University of Florence) with whom together with Francesco we ran several sessions of wind tunnel tests, Nafsika Stavridou (who I know from my past in Civil Engineering), Michael Muskulus (from NTNU) who I know from my past research in offshore wind energy, and Prof. Lampis Baniotopoulos (University of Birmingham), a great person.
Very happy to meet in person also Prof. Flemming Rasmussen (from DTU) a guru in wind turbine design, and so many other experts on the wind energy sector.

The complete list of the workshop participants:

Participant	Affiliation
Charalampos Baniotopoulos	University of Birmingham
Stephan Barth	Centre for wind energy research ForWind
Gianni Bartoli	University of Florence
Elisa Boelman	JRC, European Commission
Dennis Bosse	RWTH – Aachen
Alessandro Croce	Politecnico di Milano
Marco Fontana	Università degli Studi di Trento
Adrian Gambier	Fraunhofer IWES
Konstantinos Gkoumas	JRC, Ispra, European Commission
Christopher Golightly	Independent researcher
Peter Jamieson	University of Strathclyde
Andrew Macdonald	Offshore Renewable Energy ORE Catapult
Alberto Moro	JRC, Ispra, European Commission
Jimmy Murphy	University College Cork
Michael Muskulus	Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU
Francesco Petrini	Sapienza Universita' di Roma
Luca Pigolotti	University of Florence
Flemming Rasmussen	Technical University of Denmark
Vera Reis	JRC, Ispra, European Commission
Philippe Schild	DG RTD, Bruxelles, European Commission
Nafsika Stavridou	University of Birmingham
Nigel Taylor	JRC, Ispra, European Commission
Simon Watson	Delft University of Technology