Associate professor of Structural Analysis of Aerospace Vehicles at the Dept of Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, with a background in crashworthiness, design, and non-linear analyses of composites, as well as in the development of smart structures. Author of more than one hundred papers in these fields. He is currently involved in European-funded projects in the field of crashworthiness in the aerospace and automotive fields. He cooperated with important Italian industries and research centres in the field of damage tolerance and failure of composite materials, both with polymeric and ceramic matrix, for aeronautical and space applications.