Boards and Committees

Editorial Boards

AIAA Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associate Editor 2015-present).

Composites Part B: Engineering (Editorial Board 2021-present) 

Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials (Editorial Board 2015-present).

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (Contributing Editor 2017-present).

Aerospace (Editorial Board Members 2019 - present).

Progress in Aerospace Sciences (Special Guest Editor in 2015).

International Journal of Crashworthiness (Editorial Board 2005-2023).



International Boards and Committees

European Space Agency (ESA) ECSS-E-30-24 Buckling Handbook (2024-present).

Member of the ASME Standard, ASME VVUQ 90 “Airframe Structure Modeling & Simulation Credibility Assurance Framework”, organized by Boeing and Airbus (2020-present). 

International Committee on Composite Materials - ICCM Executive Council (2015-present).

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Structures Technical Committee (2009-present).

NAFEMS Composites (2014-2023).

Panel “Vehicle Design and Manufacturing” of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA) for the European Commission (2016).


Review Boards 

Independent Advisory Board of EPSRC-funded research project “Certification for Design: Reshaping the Testing Pyramid (CerTest)” of the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter and Southampton (2021-present).

Assessor of EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing of the University of Bristol (2019-present).

External Examiner of the Aeronautical Program of the University of Limerick (2019-2023).

Evaluator for the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (2021-2022). 

Monitor of 4 European Projects on behalf of the European Commission (2014-2020).

Reviewer of Horizon Europe, H2020, FP7  and Clean Sky proposals on behalf of the European Commission (2007-present).


Invited Lectures at International Conferences

Semi-Plenary Lecture at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th PanAmerican Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-PANACM), Vancouver, Canada, July 21-26, 2024.

Keynote Lecture at the American Society for Composites (ASC) 38th Annual Technical Conference, Greater Boston, USA, September 17-20, 2023.

Invited Talk at the Symposium on Aerospace Education, 50th PEGASUS Council + 19th PEGASUS Student Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, April 14-15, 2023.

Plenary Lecture at the 1st International Conference on Mathematical Modelling in Mechanics and Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia, September 8-10, 2022, Online.

Keynote Lecture at the American Society for Composites (ASC) 36th Annual Technical Virtual Conference, Composites Ingenuity Taking on Challenges in Environment-Energy-Economy, Texas A&M University, USA, September 19 - 23, 2021, Online.

Keynote Lecture at 22nd International Conference on Composites Materials (ICCM-22), Melbourne, Australia, August 11-16, 2019. 

Keynote at ASC 33rd Annual Technical Conference, Seattle, USA, September 24-26, 2018.

Minisymposium Keynote at 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCMXIII), New York, USA, July 22-27, 2018.

Keynote Lecture at 21st International Conference on Composites Materials (ICCM-21), Xi'an, China, August 20-25, 2017.

Plenary Lecture of Track 1: Advances in Aerospace Technology at 2015 American Society of Mechanical Engineers - International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (ASME-IMECE), Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.