Born in Monopoli (Ba)-Italy in 1964, he graduated from Università di Bari in Mech. Eng. in 1987 cum laude. In 1993 he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. Since 2002, Giacomo Mantriota is Full Professor of Mechanics applied to Machines at the Politecnico di Bari and he was President of the Course in Industrial Engineering (2002-2012). He is component of the Committee of the Ph.D. course in Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering, and since 2011 of the Committee of the Ph.D course in Mechanical and Management Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. He is Editorial Board Member of the "International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems", "The Open Transportation Journal" and "ISRN Power Engineering". He was: Editorial Board Member of the "Int. Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing" Guest Editor of the International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems for the special issue: "New Developments in Heavy Vehicle Simulation" (IJHVS, Vol. 10, Nos. 1/2, 2003); Guest Editor of the International Journal of Vehicle Design for the special issue: "Advancements in the field of vehicle transmission" (IJVD, Vol. 32, Nos. 3/4, 2003). He is a expert of Ministry of Economic Development and of Ministry of University. He has patents: N. 0001322782 " Power split cvt systems with high efficiency " N. 0001391111 "Grasping devices". He has been involved in public and private projects. In particular he has been principal investigator of the research staff of PRIN