Symposium on Aerospace Education

Professor Bisagni received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she became Assistant and later Associate Professor. Then, she was Full Professor at the University of California San Diego in the US, before moving to Delft University of Technology, where she was professor from 2015 to end of March of this year. She has just returned to Italy, and since April 3 is Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology.

Professor Bisagni received several awards, including an Amelia Earhart Fellowship, a Marie Curie Grant from the European Commission, a Young Researcher Fellowship from MIT, and a Fulbright Grant. She is Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Knight of the Order of Star of Italy.

Her research regards aerospace composite structures. Her projects span from buckling, post-buckling, and crashworthiness, to fatigue, damage tolerance and optimization, for aeronautical and space applications. Professor Bisagni has received funding from European Clean Sky program, H2020, US Air Force, collaborates with Airbus, Boeing, Fokker and NASA, and on May 1st will start her ERC Advanced Grant NABUCCO.

Dr. Cannoletta graduated in 1997 with honors in Aeronautical Engineering at University of Naples, he got in 2009 a Master Degree in System Engineering and Management (Missouri Science and Technology Institute). He has been working for Leonardo (Alenia Aeronautica at that time) since 1999.  Currently he is leading ATR Line of Business since 2019 after being Program Manager since 2014. Previously he was responsible of  Integration, Motors and APU in Chief Procurement & Supply Chain Office and he led several departments and projects in Chief Technical Office from Airborne Systems to Configuration Management and Innovation Initiatives with involvement in relevant programs for civil transport (ATR 42/72, A380, A320, A340, B787), military transport (C-27J, G222, B767, Meltem, P72A), combat aircraft (EFA, AMX, Tornado, JSF), trainers (SF260, MB339, M346) and UAV (Sky-X, Sky-Y). The responsibility on programs and projects has been always combined with academic involvement as recognized assessor for EUR-ACE aimed at the accreditation of the engineering education in University as well as member in the Supervisory Board of the European Consortium for Advanced Training in Aerospace (ECATA). 

Mario Musmeci, graduated in Physics at La Sapienza University of Rome, has more than 30 years of work experience on space domain. He has covered different roles on space industry and international EU institutions. He was payload operators during two space shuttle missions at Houston. Half of his carrier has been devoted to the satellite navigation being involved on the European programme EGNOS and Galileo since their definition. He was co-founder and technical director of an innovative startup dealing with satellite navigation applications. Mario is now working at the Italian Space Agency for the Programme Directorate with the role of coordinator for the engineering activities for the ARTEMIS NASA/ASI initiatives. He is passionate about Astrophotography and he got a drone pilot license. Vice-president of a no-profit cultural association for the education in the field of space, cultural heritage and arts. He is author of the international patent “high reliability product/activity tracking system”.