Professional Experience
2015 – now Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor)
Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, I2M Laboratory UMR CNRS 5295, France
2013 – 2015 ATER, Assistant Professor
Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, I2M Laboratory UMR CNRS 5295, France
Education
07/2021 HDR, Habilitation a diriger des recherches at Université de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
ED 209 - Sciences Physiques et de l'Ingenieur de Bordeaux (SPI)
HDR Title: "Multiscale models to design anisotropic and heterogeneous media"
06/2013 PhD: “Stiffness and Strength Optimisation of the Anisotropy Distribution for Laminated Structures”
with the highest honours.
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Institut D’Alembert, Paris/France
PhD supervisors: Paolo Vannucci, Boris Desmorat
2009 2nd level degree in Aerospace Engineering (Bac+5)
University of Pisa, Faculty of Engineering, Aerospace Department, Pisa/Italy
Fellowship and Awards
2010 – 2013 PhD Scholarship, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, PHD Grant PHD-09-184 of Fond de la
Recherche Nationale du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2019 Winner of Recipient of the French Scientific Premium of Excellence, PEDR (attributed to approximately
20% of the French professor-researchers for 4 years).
Supervision of master students, PhD and PostDoc
2015 – now 5 PhD students (1 completed)
T. Gentieu (2015-2018): Development of filled polymers for the replacement of ceramics used as
ballistic protection layer (co-supervisors: J. Jumel, J. Broughton)
T. Garulli (2017-2020): Multi-scale analysis of the damage evolution in variable stiffness composites (co-
supervisors: E. Martin, D. Fanteria)
M.I. Izzi (2017-2020): Multi-scale optimisation of composite stiffened panels by means of a local/global
approach (co-supervisors: M. Montemurro, J. Pailhes)
M. Delucia (2017-2020): Multi-scale design and optimization of cork-based composites (co-
supervisors: M. Montemurro, J. Pailhes)
T. Thenard (2017-2020): Mechano-biological modelling of osseointegration on a temporomandibular
joint prosthesis (co-supervisors: M. Mesnard, R. Allena)
2015 – now 8 Master students: L. Revelli (2017), L. Rizzo (2018), W. Huang (2018), A. Ghini (2018), F. Coccia
(2018), E. Bertuccio (2018), N.M.R. Kauta (2019), R. Chevalier (2019)
Editorial Board Memberships
2020 – Associate editor of Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (edited by Sage).
2020 – Editorial Board Member of Advances in Mechanical Engineering (edited by Sage).