June 2024: Chiara and Arne participated to the final event of the European project H2020 SUSTAINair in Vienna.    

Prof. Mary Frecker, Prof. Lorraine Dowler and two PhD students of Penn State University visited the group for two weeks thanks to the new NSF-ERC collaboration. 

March 2024: Chiara gave a presentation at the Training School on Computational Modelling and Advanced Design Approaches (COMADA), final event of the COST Action “Optimising Design for Inspection - ODIN”, at the University of Belgrade.

January 2024: Dr. Sathiskumar Anusuya Ponnusami, of City University of London, visited the group and gave a talk, thanks to an UK-Italy Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Researcher Award from the Alan Turing Institute.   

January 2024: Michelle won the “Lockheed Martin Student Paper Award in Structures” at the AIAA SciTech conference in Orlando.

November 2023: Chiara was interviewed by RAI Tre. The interview was broadcast on the program “Fuori TG”.

October 2023: Chiara was invited to give a Keynote Lecture at the 38th American Society of Composites (ASC) Technical Conference in Boston.

April 2023: Chiara starts her new position as Professor at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano. 

March 2023: Chiara and Javier went to Bengaluru for a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science and were invited to give a lecture at Airbus.   

March 2023: During a visit of the Bengaluru Palace, Chiara talk with a female local school. 

November 2022: On the occasion of the State Visit of the President of the Italian Republic, Chiara was invited at a lunch by the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. 

November 2022: Meeting at TU Delft of the working group ‘Airframe Structure Modeling & Simulation Credibility Assurance Framework’. 

September 2022: Chiara and Michelle are ready to test a Conical-Cylindrical Shells for Launch-Vehicle Applications at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center .

October 2021: Chiara and Antonio went to Reykjavik for the COST ODIN project meeting, the first business trip since the start of the pandemic.

July 2021: We successfully completed the fatigue tests of the ONR project.  

March 2021: Chiara was announced as one of the Class of 2021 AIAA Fellows. 

March 2021: We were finally able to perform tests of ONR project in the lab. 

February 2021: Chiara, Antonio and Marta have given lectures at the “Giornata dedicata alla ricerca e ai ricercatori italiani nei Paesi Bassi”, organized by the Italian Embassy in the Netherlands in the presence of Ambassador Giorgio Novello  

January 2021: SDM lecture honoring Dr. Steve Engelstad at virtual AIAA SciTech conference

August 2020: We successfully performed water impact tests of composite panels for the PhD thesis of Yu Qian at the Crash Lab of the Politecnico di Milano. 

April 2020: Picture of one of the Wednesday online group meetings during the period of “smart working”

March 2020: Chiara invited to give a Plenary Lecture at the 60th  Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 

January 2020: Luc Kootte won the “Lockheed Martin Student Paper Award in Structures” at the AIAA SciTech conference in Orlando  

September 2019: Ines and Bas have presented in an old cluster at the 7th ECCOMAS Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites in Girona  

July 2019: Test of thermoplastic composite panels in collaboration with GKN/Fokker   

December 2018: Society of Aerospace Students “Leonardo da Vinci” for Sinterklaas   

September 2018: Special Session Honoring Dr. T. Kevin O’Brien, NASA Langley Research Center, at the ASC 33rd Annual Technical Conference in Seattle  

December 2017: Chiara and Michelle before a test of the Shell Buckling Knockdown Factor (SBKF) Project at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center