Stefano Odorizzi

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1973, Stefano Odorizzi started his activity as researcher in 1976 at University of Padova, where he holds the course of Solid Mechanics. CEO and co-founder of EnginSoft, multinational consultancy company engaged in Simulation Based Engineering Science, he actively promotes numerical simulation for research activity, with particular attention for manufacturing process, metallurgy, multi-disciplinary and multi-objective optimization. Since 1977, he has been Project leader of a large number of EU co-funded research projects (like COMETT, CRAFT, BRITE-EURAM, MURST, EU-RTD); he is an active member of several associations (ISOPE, ASM Europe, AICAP, AIM, ATA, NAFEMS) and he plays an important role within prestigious European Networks (MACSinet, FENET, INGENET, TECHNET). His commitment in numerical simulation dissemination is witnessed by his many initiatives as General Manager of EnginSoft, in academic research and advanced training and education.

Parvin Moiz

Moin is the founding director of the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford and Ames. Established in 1987 as a research consortium between NASA and Stanford, Center for Turbulence Research is devoted to fundamental studies of turbulent flows. Center of Turbulence Research is widely recognized as the international focal point for turbulence research, attracting diverse groups of researchers from engineering, mathematics and physics.

Professor Moin pioneered the use of direct and Large Eddy Simulation techniques for the study of turbulence physics, control and modeling concepts and has written widely on the structure of turbulent shear flows. His current interests include: interaction of turbulent flows and shock waves, aerodynamic noise and hydro-acoustics, aerooptics, combustion, numerical analysis, turbulence control, large eddy simulation and parallel computing. He is a Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, and on the Editorial Board of Turbulent Combustion and the SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. He is currently serving on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC).

Andreas Ennemoser

Andreas Ennemoser was studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz. After that he joined AVL to work as a software developer for AVL’s CFD code FIRE in the early 90s. From being a software developer for several years he changed to the powertrain engineering group of AVL and is skill team leader for CFD analysis and thermal management. He leads a group of about 30 engineers who provide CFD related engineering services to the automotive industry. The technology areas include engine, transmission, battery, vehicle cooling and model based control. In addition to his activities in AVL he taught several years as a lecturer for heat transfer at the university of Applied Sciences “FH Joanneum”. He is also a chartered engineering consultant for mechanical engineering in Austria.

Mikael Lundblad

2004-Present – Manager Metal Cutting Research, AB Sandvik Coromant
2000 – 2003 - Sr Research Engineer, AB Sandvik Coromant
1998-1999 - Manager R&D CAE, AB Sandvik Coromant
1990-1997 - Sr R&D Engineer, AB Sandvik Coromant

Gianluca Iaccarino

Gianluca Iaccarino is the co-founder of Cascade Technologies and has 15 years’ experience in development and application of CFD methods. He acts as a consultant on a variety of projects involving industrial fluid flow simulations. He is also leading the development of a novel tool for uncertainty quantification and robust design. Dr. Iaccarino received his PhD from the Politecnico di Bari with a thesis on Immersed Boundary Methods. He holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University.

Thomas B. Messervey

Dr. Thomas Messervey serves as the EU Facilitator for the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Program. From industry, he helps EU projects connect internationally through IMS to make the best use of current opportunities in running projects or to strengthen dissemination/exploitation plans in proposal development through international collaboration. He is the CEO of Research to Market Solution s.r.l. (R2M) and specialises in the development and use of sensor technologies, sensor embedded materials, and the use of measurement data for new processes and applications. Within IMS, he was the coordinator of the IMS MTP Project “Industrial Smart Material Applications (ISMA).”

Marc Wintermantel

Marc Wintermantel (Dr. sc. nat. ETH) studied physics and did a PhD at the Center for Structure Technologies of the ETH Zürich about Optimization Technologies. Further he is founding member and co-owner of EVEN - Evolutionary Engineering AG. EVEN is partner to ANSYS and responsible for the development of the ANSYS Composite PrePost (ACP). During his professional career he worked as well for MotoGP, Formula 1 and acted as structural engineer and finally technical director of the German America's Cup campaign.

Clovis Maliska

Dr. Clovis R. Maliska holds a full professor position at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his main research activities are numerical methods for heat transfer and fluid flow with emphasis on finite volume methods for unstructured grids applied to petroleum reservoir simulation, aerodynamics and multiphase flows.

Stefan Luding

Prof. Dr. rer.-nat. Stefan Luding is Chair for Multi Scale Mechanics at the University of Twente in The Netherlands since 2007, after he studied physics in Bayreuth, promoted in Freiburg, Germany, and - after a PostDoc in Paris, F, became Assoc. Prof. for ParticleTechnology at the TUDelft, NL. He is working on Granular Materials, Fluids and Solids and multi-scale mechanics involving particulate and continuum systems and the transition between. He is Managing Editor in Chief of the journal Granular Matter since 1998 and President of the Powders & Grains committee since 2005.

Andrea Remuzzi

Andrea Remuzzi is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), Italy and Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Bergamo, Italy. His main activity is scientific research about several biomedical topics and teaching, as coordinator of research Unit at Laboratory and Department at the Mario Negri Institute. Andrea Remuzzi has participated in several funded research projects and he is author or co-author of journal articles in 142 scientific publications on original investigations and review articles.

Eugenio Onate

Prof. EUGENIO OÑATE, Civil Engineer by the Technical University of Valencia, Spain (1975) and Ph.D. by the University of Swansea, Wales, UK (1979), Director of the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona (1983-89), Director of the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) of the Technical University of Catalonia (since 1987), Honorary President of the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) (since 2004), Past-President of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) (2000-2004) and Past-President of the International for Association Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2002-2010). He has received a number of awards from universities and scientific and technological organizations worldwide. He is author of some 262 scientific papers on developments and applications of finite element and particle-based methods for structural and geomechanical problems, fluid dynamics and industrial forming processes.

Tim Bogard

Tim is the leading expert on the development and integration of tolerance and variation analysis technologies driving unique engineering solutions into the CAE/CAD/CAM market. Over the past 25 years, he has worked with engineering management in over 1000 global companies improving lean engineering processes toward more robust products. Tim founded Sigmetrix in 1999 as a divesture from Raytheon/Texas Instruments, creating a dynamic and focused organization, specializing in the development of unique, integrated, engineering analysis tools to address the need of mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality professionals to understand the impact that imperfect parts and assemblies have vs. the idealized world of CAD. He has led the growth and expansion of this high performance company, developing strategic relationships with key universities, PLM vendors and software integration experts creating a global enterprise capable of meeting the growing needs of manufacturing companies. Prior to forming Sigmetrix, Tim was Director of Engineering at Texas Instruments and Raytheon, where he helped develop the Design for 6 Sigma strategies and design technology centers supporting multi-disciplined engineering processes for advanced development programs..

Andreas Vlahinos

Dr. Andreas Vlahinos is a Principal, Advanced Engineering Solutions. Andreas has been instrumental in rapid product development through the implementation of CAE and DFSS and for several Government agencies and industry partners. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. He has been Professor at the University of Colorado. Several times he received the Professor of the Year and R&D 100 awards. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker on a variety of subjects (Innovation, Rapid new product development, DFSS ) in international conferences.

Tim Morris

Tim Morris joined NAFEMS in 2003. Since then he has been driving the organization forward to achieve: improved international participation increased coverage of the range of engineering simulation technologies that are embraced and the continued supply of high quality guidance on the use of simulation for professional engineering practitioners through a variety of different media Prior to joining NAFEMS Tim worked for 16 years in industry, and held a number of different roles before reaching the position of Associate Director at one of the UK’s leading engineering simulation companies. During this time, he developed expertise in a variety of simulation technologies including dynamic analysis and advanced non-linear analysis.

Aronne Armanini

Aronne Armanini is professor of Hydraulics and River Engineering and Restoration at the University of Trento. Prof. Armanini has 25 years of experience on river engineering, sediment transport and hydrodynamics of vegetation. He has been Director of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, since 2007 and has several other academic and professional responsibilities. Prof. Armanini is author of more than 150 publications on scientific Journals conference proceedings, books and chapters of books. He has been invited speaker in many national and international scientific conferences.

Mikael Olsson

2005: Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (Lund University)
2005-2007: Technical CFD consultant Epsilon, Gothenburg
2007-: Joining Tetra Pak as Technology Specialist CFD

Mikael Törmänen

Dr. M. Törmänen finished his Ph.D. in Vehicle Engineering in 2001 at the department of Machine and Vehicle Systems at Chalmers University of Technogy. He has joined Volvo Car Corporation in 2005 to work with powertrain simulations with focus on the longitudinal vehicle dynamics, i.e. driveability. In June 2012 he was appointed a position as Technical Expert MDO & Powertrain Attributes Balancing. Since the attribute driveability is influenced by almost every mechanical systems in the front-end of the vehicle he has gained a broad overall system knowledge and experience in different customer attributes that need to be optimized. To improve the optimization between several attributes he has formed a CAE framework that makes it possible to reuse and speed up the optimization process. This has been applied on engine mount systems which has a major impact on driveability. Since 2007, the main optimzation tool has been modeFrontier.

Antonio Navarra

Born in Naples in 1956 he got his degree in Physic at University of Bologna in 1980 and his PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University in 1986. He is Head of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, where his research activity deals with climate simulation using numerical models of general circulation. His main topics of interest are the dynamic mechanisms which regulate climate on a global scale, and in particular natural climate variability of the atmosphere-ocean system on long-term scales. He is also Professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Bologna and author of several books of scientific dissemination on climate, collaborating also with important national journals.

Keith Hanna

Keith Hanna is the Director of Marketing and Product Strategy for the Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division. He has over 20 years of experience in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) industry in engineering, consulting, managerial and marketing positions inside both Fluent Inc. and ANSYS Inc. Keith has a BSc in Minerals Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham in England and applied experience at both De Beers and British Steel PLC. Currently he sits on the Executive Committee of the International Sports Engineering Association.

Fabio Marcuzzi

Fabio Marcuzzi is Assistant Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova. He is involved mainly in inverse problems in computational mechanics, focusing on algorithmic and numerical/ computational issues. He graduated in Electronics Engineering in 1991 and developed the control firmware for a few industrial applications. Then he got a PhD in Computational Mathematics in 2000 with a thesis on Adaptivity in the Finite Element Method and then started developing the co-simulation of the control electronics and the multiphisical controlled system as a systematic approach to the design and prototyping of microcontroller applications

Fabiano Maggio

Fabiano Maggio graduated in Mechanical Engineering at University of Padua on 2001. Three years later he got a Ph.D in Motorcycle Engineering from the same University, developing a research on Two Steering Wheel Motorcycles. He joined EnginSoft in 2005 starting his career as multibody dynamics analyst. In a few years he widened his knowledge in CAE, managing a large number of structural, durability, and optimization projects as well. He was Company's representative in a couple of European Projects and evaluator for new emerging CAE technologies. Now, he is responsible of the Multibody Dynamics Technical Area at EnginSoft.

Erik Lönroth

Erik Lönroth holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and is the Technical Responsible for the HPC area at Scania. He has been leading the technical development of four generations of super computing initiatives at Scania and their supporting subsystems. Erik is frequently lecturing on development of super computer environments for industry, open source software governance and HPC related topics.

Hironori Imai

2009: Getting degree in mechanical engineering. (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) 2009-2011: Joining SCS as technical sales engineer of press forming simulation.2011: Joining structural analysis team as a ADVENTURECluster specialist.

Giovanni Meneghetti

Giovanni Meneghetti was born in Treviso (Italy) on November 14th, 1969 and got his Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994. From 1995 until 1998 he attended a three-year PhD course in Machine Design at the University of Padova. Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Padova from 2002 until 2010. Associate Professor in Machine Design at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova from December 2010. Author of about 130 scientific publications, 40 of which published in International Journals with impact factor. His research fields deal with the development of local approaches for fatigue analysis of welded components and structures, fatigue design of structures in metallic materials, experimental analysis of strains, in-field load data acquisition and fatigue behavior of bonded joints in composite materials.

Stefano Giacometti

Stefano Giacometti was born in Bassano del Grappa (Italy) on August 18th,1956. He has been employed in OZ Wheels Spa (Vicenza-Italy) since 1974 and he presently is with the R&D Department. He has been cooperating with the department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova (Italy) since 2005 for the manufacturing, installation and development of jet-engines and wind turbines and since 2006 as manufacturing supervisor of the Formula SAE car of the students’ RaceUP racing team. In 2012 he cooperated with the DTU University (Denmark) for the manufacturing and installation of wind turbines for research purposes. From 2007 until 2010 he cooperated with the Research Center for Aerospace Studies of the University of Padova in the activity of set-up and testing of hybrid propulsion systems. He is co-author of two papers published in International Journals and supervisor of about twenty master thesis.

Jean Luc Lacome

Jean Luc LACOME graduated from the University of Toulouse in 1998. His background is applied mathematics and especially numerical particle methods. After his PhD, he has been working for 10 years for LSTC where he implemented the SPH method in LS-DYNA. In 2007, he started the company IMPETUS Afea in France together with Arve Hanssen in Norway and Lars Olovsson in Sweden (developer of the ALE in LS-DYNA). The goal of IMPETUS Afea is to develop a new generation of software for engineers to simulation high transient dynamic problems. The goal is provide an accurate numerical simulation tool for engineers in an industrial environment.