Full Professor of Mechanical Design And Machine Construction. Born in Como on August 4, 1960. Graduated cum laude at the Politecnico di Milano in 1984. Lieutenant in the Army Technical Corps. Awarded a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1989. Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano in 1991. In 2000 he became eligible for Full Professor at the Technical University of Delft. In 2004, he won the competition for Full Professor I at the Politecnico di Milano. His scientific activity has been in the field of design, construction and testing of machines, structures and mechanical systems, with special reference to ground vehicles.
e-mail: gianpiero.mastinu@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/ricerca/personale-docente/prof-gianpiero-mastinu
Federico Cheli in 1983 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano and became Associate Professor at the same University in 1992. In September 2000 he was appointed Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. He is the leader of the Road Vehicle Dynamics Research Group (RVD) of the Mechanical Department of the Politecnico di Milano. Scientific activity is carried out in the field of dynamics, stability and control of mechanical systems including: dynamics and aerodynamics of rail and road vehicles, hybrid / electric vehicles, vehicle active control (ADAS), connected and autonomous vehicles.
e-mail: federico.cheli@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/research/faculty/prof-federico-cheli
Prof. Massimiliano Gobbi is full professor of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He was awarded a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 (100/100 cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1998. From 2002 to 2017, he had been associate professor at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Areas of interest: road vehicles engineering, optimization of complex systems, advanced design, experimental mechanics.
e-mail: massimiliano.gobbi@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/research/faculty/prof-massimiliano-gobbi
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 from the Politecnico di Milano, he received a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanics in the year 2003. In 2001, he was appointed as a researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. He currently holds the course of Vehicle Mechanics for 3rd year students of the Mechanical Engineering Degree. The research activity, generally associated with the dynamics of mechanical systems, is mainly focused on the dynamics of ground vehicles: in the automotive field the activity is directed to the experimental analysis and modeling of motor vehicles and motorcycles and their components, with particular attention toward the behavior of tires and control systems for active safety or driver assistance.
e-mail: stefano.melzi@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/research/faculty/prof-stefano-melzi
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from Politecnico di Milano. PhD degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering obtained in 2006. From 2002 to 2006 holder of research grant at Politecnico di Milano. From 2006 to 2008 employed at the R&D center of the SAME-Deutz-Fahr group, a leading manufacturer of agricultural tractors. Since December 2008 researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Previati’s scientific activity mainly concerns the study of complex systems with particular reference to ground vehicles and their subsystems, both from the computational and constructive point of view. Another area of research concerns the study and numerical simulation of the mechanical behavior of elastomers.
e-mail: giorgio.previati@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/research/faculty/prof-giorgio-previati
Graduated from Politecnico di Milano in the academic year 2001/2002, he received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering in 2007. In 2003, he was the holder of a research grant for the research program called “Optimization of suspension damping characteristics in relation to active control logic” carried out at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Ferrari S.p.A. In May 2008, he took office as a Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. His research activity is mainly focused on the areas of dynamics, stability and control of mechanical systems, with particular application to road and rail vehicles, as well as mechatronics and wind engineering.
e-mail: edoardo.sabbioni@polimi.it
https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/research/faculty/prof-edoardo-sabbioni
He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2012 and the M.S. degree in 2014 from Politecnico di Milano. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2019, after a working project with Toyota Motor Europe in Belgium. From 2019 to 2021 he was working as mechanical designer in the spin-off company SmartMechanical. His research interests include the optimization for the design of vehicle subsystems. From 2021 he is the head of unit of the DriSMi – Driving Simulator Lab.
e-mail: francesco.comolli@polimi.it