Gennaro Antonio D’Angelo is a research assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Naples Federico II and his research interests concern the area of vehicle dynamics, railway engineering and mechatronics. He gained his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering for Design and Production at University of Naples Federico II in 2019. His last research activity was focused on the design and development of a new friction tester to study friction and wear behaviour of viscoelastic materials, like a tread compounds, on hard surface under different operating conditions.