Dr. Antonio Piccininni

Antonio Piccininni, PhD: Research Associate at the Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management of Politecnico di Bari. Graduated as a master student at the Politecnico di Bari in 2012, completed his PhD course in 2019 discussing the investigation of innovative solutions to improve the formability of Al alloys. He has been visiting researcher at the Institute of Metal Research (Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang, China) and at the Department of Integrated Engineering (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA). Started his current position as Research Associate in 2021 studying innovative methodologies toward a product’s full customization. His principal activities cover the material characterization and subsequent calibration of constitutive equations, the FE-based design of sheet metal forming process and the process optimization using multi-objective genetic algorithms.