Ugo Galvanetto

Short Bio:

Ugo Galvanetto is Professor of Aerospace Structures in the University of Padova. Before joining his current institution he was lecturer, Senior lecturer and Reader in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. His main research interests are in the fields of: • Computational mechanics applied to various problems of advanced (composite) materials such as energy dissipation, crack propagation, delamination and impacts. • Application of the methods of non-linear dynamics to the analysis, control and damage detection of mechanical and structural systems • Design and optimization of various items of personal protective equipment such as motorcycle helmets. • application of Peridynamics to the solution of engineering problems. His research activities have been sponsored by the EU, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the EPSRC, the Veneto Region, the CARIPARO Foundation and industry. He is the author of more than ninety papers publisherd in international journals and he has presented his results in more than one hundred international conferences.