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  • Guidance and Control Engineer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
    Mr. Hezi Ben-Ari received his B.S.C in Mechanical engineering in 2001 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). Since 2001 he has been working at Rafael as a member of the guidance and control group.
  • Product Development Director, illycaffè
    Product Development director in illycaffè since 2005 former R&D manager at Electrolux Professional
  • Professor, Politecnico di Milano
    Dr. Marcello Colledani has a Mechanical Engineering Degree and a PhD in Manufacturing Technologies and Systems. He holds an assistant professor position at Politecnico di Milano since 2006 and he his research associate at ITIA-CNR since 2009. He is...
  • Senior Scientist, ABB AG
    Dr.-Ing. Octavian Craciun is Senior Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Germany. His main research topic is the electromagnetic design and multi-optimization of actuators used for mechatronic devices.
  • Product Development Engineer - MDO, Embraer
    Ana Paula started her career at Engineering Simulation and Scientific and Software (ESSS) in 2007. Her assignments, as a member of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization department, included the modeFrontier training and the software technical...
  • Electromagnetic designer, Nidec ASI
    Matteo De Martin received his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering (curricula electric) at the University of Trieste. In 2012 he got a post graduate master’s degree (with honours) in Electrical Engineering. Since...
  • Product Manager of modeFRONTIER, ESTECO SpA
    Danilo Di Stefano graduated in Physical Chemistry from the University of Padova, and completed a Master's programme in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna. After three years of experience as a Scientist at the Area Science Park...
  • Customers Service, BETA CAE Systems S.A.
    Dimitrios Drougkas has studied Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece and has a Masters degree in Advanced Materials from Cranfield University. He joined BETA CAE...
  • Research Associate, Università degli Studi di Trieste
    Valerio Ferrario is currently a Research Associate at University of Trieste, in the laboratory of computational and applied biocatalysis headed by Professor Lucia Gardossi. His work deals with computational methods for in-silico enzyme evolution....
  • Senior Engineer, SKF
    Since 2007, Alessandro Fornero has been working at the SKF Automotive Development Centre (Business & Technology Park, Nieuwegein, The Netherland) where he now holds the position of Senior Simulation Engineer....
  • Senior Research Fellow, The University of Warwick
    Dr. Pasquale Franciosa is Senior Research Fellow at University of Warwick (UK) - Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG). His has extensive expertise in modelling and simulations of compliant/deformable assemblies, tooling and multi-disciplinary/multi-...
  • Simulation Engineer, BMW
    Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at University of Trieste,  Simone Fratti is a simulation engineer employed at the R&D Department of BMW Motoren, where he currently works performing  dynamics, acoustics and fatigue analysis.
  • Manager Turbomachinery and Fluid Dynamics, MTU Friedrichshafen
    After his studies of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at RWTH Aachen, Dr. Friedrich Fröhlig received the title of Doctor of Mechanical Engineering  / Turbo Machinery at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT...
  • Technical Expert, Ford Motor Company
    Dr. Fu is an Optimization and Robust Design Technical Expert since she joined Ford in 1999, and currently she is leading the Strategy and Sustainability Analytics Group at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.  Dr. Yan Fu has led the...
  • Structural Engineer, Arup Japan
    Kazuma Goto has skill of Nonlinear Computational Mechanics. On his BSc thesis is titled “Form finding analysis of Tensegrity Structures” at the Department of System Design,  and his Master thesis is titled “Form finding...
  • Head of Aerodynamics, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
    Mr Ohad Gur received is PhD in in Aerospace engineering in 2007 at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). From 1996 to 2001 he was Captain at Israel Air Force (IAF), Flight Science Branch, Performance Group....
  • Vice President, Research, Gartner
    Marc Halpern, P.E., Ph.D., is a research vice president in Gartner, where he is the lead analyst covering product life cycle management strategies and software applications in the Verticals unit. He focuses on design, engineering, product data...
  • Professor, ENSTA ParisTech
    Omar Hammami is a Professor at ENSTA/DGA since 2000. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1993 with ENSEEIH, Toulouse, and Associate Professor with the University of Aizu, Japan, from 1993 to 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in...
  • Electrical Engineer, Rafael
    Electrical engineer at Rafael. Studied at the technion and working at Rafael for the past 13 years. Main job in Rafael as an electrical engineer in developing and design.
  • Professor, University of Strasbourg
    Dominique KNITTEL received the Engineer diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg, France, in 1987 and the Ph.D degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1990, both in Control Engineering. Since 1992 he has been...
  • Professor, University of Technologie of Troyes
    Prof. Pascal Lafon has obtained his PhD degree in 1994 from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, on the subject of "Optimization of Mechanical System in mixed variables". Pascal Lafon has been associated professor from 1994 to 2009...
  • Trainee at Fincantieri, Politecnico di Bari
    Davide Laricchia received his Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2013 at Politecnico di Bari. He's currently doing an internship at Fincantieri Spa and his research focuses on renewable energies and cyclone separators...
  • Professor, University of Pisa
    Giovanni Lombardi received his degree in Aeronautical Engineering at University of Pisa in 1982. Professor since 1990 at the University of Pisa of “Airplanes Aerodynamics”, and “Experimental Aerodynamics” for...
  • Engineering Director, Simulation Based Design, Whirlpool
    John Mannisto holds the role of Engineering Director, Simulation Based Design at Whirlpool Corporation. Within this role, John's current focus is on CAE productivity in structures, fluids, dynamics and manufacturing. John has also been a...
  • Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Trieste
    Marco Manzan is Associate professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at the University of Trieste. He received his degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1989. Prof. Marco Manzan main research...
  • Technical Director, EnginSoft UK Ltd.
    Having been a teacher, government scientist  and automotive safety engineer with experience within OEMs and suppliers, I have since 2009 been supporting modeFRONTIER sales in the UK with training and consultancy services.
  • Enterprise Solutions Product Manager, ESTECO SpA
    Matteo is the Enterprise Solutions Product Manager at ESTECO. In this role is in charge of client engagement management, requirements gathering and roadmap building. Responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining features or functions of...
  • Engineering Supervisor, IDAJ Co., LTD.
    Seiji Nishita graduated in 2002 at the Department of Energy Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Nagatsuta, Tokyo Institute of Technology (MS). Since 2002, he has been working at  IDAJ Co., LTD...
  • Professor, University of Trieste
    Enrico Nobile, Mechanical Engineer, is Full Professor of Thermodynamics and Thermal-fluids at the University of Trieste. He has a post graduate degree diploma from Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Belgium. He is one of the founders...
  • Chief technology Officer, ESTECO SpA
    Luka Onesti graduated in Electronics Engineering at the University of Trieste and subsequently was visiting researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway). He was involved in the European founded project Frontier and has been one of the original...
  • Head of Vehicle Engineering, Bombardier Transportation
    Alexander Orellano is Head of Vehicle Engineering at Bombardier Transportation GmbH, where he is responsible for product definition/concept and technical responsibility in projects for High-Speed trains, regional trains, commuter trains and...
  • Engineer, Ph.D. Student, Università degli Studi di Trieste
    Roberta Padovan is a construction engineer, currently Ph.D. student. The context of the Ph.D. course is the rational use of energy for civil and industrial buildings. She trained in the buildings-integrated simulation at the Strathclyde...
  • Research fellow, Politecnico di Bari
    Antonio Piccininni was born in Bari, Italy, on 23 November 1982. He received the Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari (Bari, Italy) in 2012 discussing the thesis “Numerical...
  • President, ESTECO SpA
    Carlo Poloni received a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1987, the same course that he now teaches at the University of Trieste, Italy. His working experience includes working at the space division of Aeritalia (Italian aerospace company) and...
  • Senior Specialist Aerothermal & Aeroacoustics, Centro Ricerche FIAT
    Graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 1997 at Politecnico di Torino. From 1999 is in the Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics group of CRF (FIAT Research Center) near Turin. He carries on the development and integration into product...
  • Research Assistant, Högskolan i Skövde
    Enrique​ Ruiz Zúñiga is a research assistant at the University of Skövde, Sweden. He holds a B.Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Malaga, Spain and B.Sc. in Automation Engineering from the University...
  • Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
    Reino Ruusu, MSc. (Tech.), is a research scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has a master's degree in computer science from Helsinki University of Technology, and a 15-year experience in building modelling...
  • CFD Consultant, EnginSoft Nordic
    M.Sc. Ragnar Skoglund (Master in Space Engineering, Aerospace at Lulea University of Technology) is working as a CFD consultant at EnginSoft Nordic. He has a great passion for the aerospace industry and has been involved in ...
  • Senior Technologist, DCTA/FUNDEP
    Mechanical engineer with ten years of experience in the optimization field. Has applied topology optimization in the design of  MEMS actuators, and parametric optimization in the fly-by-wire and internal combustion engine fields. Currently...
  • Application Engineer, CST
    Davide Tallini received the Laurea degree in Telecommunication Engineering from “Sapienza” University of Rome in February 2007. His scientific interests during the university were focused on electromagnetic theory and...
  • Engineer, Politecnico di Bari
    Born in Mesagne (Italy), in 1980. He is a Mechanical Engineer, he has been working at Politecnico di Bari since 2009; PhD thesis entitled "Fluid dynamic design optimization of mechanical and energy systems"; he is currently working as...
  • CFD specialist, Ford Europe
    Zafer Tastan is working at Ford of Europe in Germany as CFD specialist. He has specialized himself especially in the field of Underhood Thermal Management of vehicles by using special DoE Techniques.
  • Technical Expert MDO, Volvo Car Corporation
    Dr. M. Törmänen finished his Ph.D. in Vehicle Engineering in 2001 at the department of Machine and Vehicle Systems at Chalmers University of Technology. He has joined Volvo Car Corporation in 2005 to work with powertrain simulations...
  • Project Engineer, VI-grade
    Eddi Valvason received his Master Degree in Mechanical Engineer at the University of Trieste and a Bachelor Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the same university. He currently works as a Project Engineer at VI-Grade.
  • Visiting Research Scholar, MIT
    Giuliano Vernengo is Visiting Research Scholar at MIT Sea Grant College Program Design Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Brizzolara. His research is actually focused on the development of a non-linear 3D vortex lattice method able to solve...
  • Global Research Manager, ABB
    Daniel Wäppling is a Global Research Manager in ABB Corporate Research. He is in charge of competence development, strategic technology management, and project portfolio management in Mechanics and Robotics.  Daniel joined...
  • Development engineer, Airbus Defense and Space
    Andreas Winkler studied Aerospace at the TU Muenchen from 2000 to 2005 and finished his Diploma in 2005 the North Carolina State University. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Research Associate at the Chair of Aerodynamics at the TU ...
  • Principal Engineer, Atkins
    Alan Wisdish is a Principal Engineer with Atkins. He has been involved on a wide range of sewerage and urban drainage projects for most parts of the UK as well as overseas. The tools used have got more complex and allow for a wider range of...
  • Design and Development Engineer, HYDAC Cooling GmbH
    Thomas Wolfanger​ received his degree as Mechanical Engineer from University of Kaiserslautern in 1993. From 1999 to 2009 he worked as a reseach scientist at TLT Turbo GmbH, Zweibrücken, Germany in the field of wind tunnel and fan design...
  • Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd
    Takashi Yamazaki received Doctor of Science from the Tokyo University of Science in Japan in 2004. Since 1999, he has investigated structural analysis at atomic resolution by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Since 2008, he has been with...
  • CAE Manager, Jaguar Land Rover
    Dr Tayeb Zeguer hold a first honour degree in mechanical Engineering, a master degree in computer aided design and a doctor ( PhD) in optimisation and robustness. Tayeb joined Jaguar in 1984 in power train department. He worked as CAE...

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