Dr. Ignazio Dimino

Dr Ignazio Dimino graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Palermo, Italy, in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Imperial College of London, UK. He was also visiting researcher at Center of Acoustics and Vibration of Penn State University, State College, PA US. Currently, he is the Head of the Adaptive Structures Technologies unit at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA) and Project Manager in the field of Smart Structures. In 2015, within the EU-funded SARISTU project, he was involved in the wind tunnel test campaign in Russia of the first true-scale morphing wing ever delivered in Europe. He joined also the Italian/Canadian team of the CRIAQ MDO-505 project supervising the design and testing of a morphing aileron. From 2016, he is responsible of the Morphing Technology stream of the Clean Sky 2 Green Regional Aircraft IADP and board member of the Airgreen 2 PMO managing the Technologies Review and Demonstrations. Dimino is author of about eighty peer reviewed papers on adaptive structures and co-author of two books. In 2014, Dr Dimino received the “Best paper Award” at the 3AF/CEAS conference "Greener Aviation: Clean Sky breakthroughs and worldwide status” in Brussels. In 2016 and 2019, he served as program committee member and chairman of the Greener Aviation conference in Brussels, organized by the 3AF Association Aéronautique et et Astronautique de France.