Doctor of Mechanical and Management Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy). doctoral researcher in the working group on structural optimization for lightweight design of constructions, Hamburg University of Technology (Germany). mechanical engineering, applied mechanics as well as fluid mechanics, structural optimization, optimization algorithms and methods, advanced meta-heuristic methods, topology optimization, mechanics (strength) of materials, numerical and mathematical analysis, numerical methods and simulation, elasticity, plasticity, finite element method, multiscale material modeling, computational mechanics, mechanical behavior of materials, torsion and fracture mechanics