Raffaele Di Gregorio Mechanics of Machines and Mechanisms Laboratory of Mechatronics and Virtual Prototyping (LaMaViP)
Raffaele Di Gregorio is currently a Full Professor of Machine Mechanics at the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara, Italy. He received the M.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, and automotive engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1982, 1985, and 1988, respectively. And the Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1992.
In 1983, he received a grant from the ATA (the Italian Automotive Technical Association) to spend one year as a research fellow at the FIAT Research Center in Orbassano (Italy).
Between 1984 and 1992, he served as an officer of the Technical Corps in the Italian Army; first, at the Military School of Turin, and, successively, at the STAVECO (Military Vehicle Factory) of Bologna.
In 1993, he taught at the ITIS O. Belluzzi of Bologna, Italy.
Since 1994, he has joined the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara, Italy.
His research interests include kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms and machines, biomechanics, robotics, vibration mechanics, and vehicle mechanics.
He has been an author and co-author of about 100 technical papers published in refereed international journals, and as many papers published in conference proceedings.
He has been “observer/member” of the IFToMM Technical Committee “Computational Kinematics” since 2007, and “member” of the IFToMM Permanent Commission “Standardization of Terminology” since 2009. Moreover, he is an ASME member and served as a 'general member' of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee between 2007 and 2012; since 2013, he has continued to serve this Committee as a past member. In these roles, he has actively participated in the organization of International Conferences on Mechanisms and/or Robotics and served as chair of the ASME-Mechanisms and Robotics’ Honors and Awards Sub-Committee from 2014 to 2016.
Over being editorial board member of many international journals, he serves as associate editor of “ACTAPRESS International Journal of Robotics and Automation”, “Mechanism and Machine Theory”, and served as associate editor of the “ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics” from July 2014 to October 2020. Also, he has ideated the special issues series 'Kinematics and Robot Design', which was published by the journal MDPI Robotics from 2018 to 2023, and has been 'Editor in Chief' of the “Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation” since 2012.