Symposium Speakers

Osamu Fujita serve as Vice President for Sectional Affairs of The Combustion Institute. He is also a professor, Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan. Fujita completed all of his education at Hokkaido University, receiving his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. Fujita’s work covers a wide area of combustion research, including ignition and flame spreading over solid material, microgravity combustion, fire science, laminar premixed flame, combustion instability, electric and magnetic field effect on combustion, and combustion diagnostics. Fujita is an active member of The Combustion Society of Japan (CI Japanese Section), served as both President and Board Member. Fujita has contributed as a member of many CI award committees. In addition to his Combustion Institute membership, Fujita is an active member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering, the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, the Gas Turbine Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Microgravity Application, and the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Society (JSASS). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including JSME Fellow, JSASS Fellow, and Hokkaido University President Encouragement Award for Educational Contribution.

Yury F. Maydanik was born on January 20, 1946 in Sverdlovsk (the USSR). In 1972, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Technology of the Ural Polytechnic Institute and received a diploma in engineering physics. From 1973 to 1976, he studied at the postgraduate school at the same institute. In 1977, he defended his PhD thesis in Theoretical Heat Engineering. In 1979, he went to work at the Institute of Thermal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a senior researcher. From 1988 to the present, he is the head of the laboratory of heat transfer devices. In 1993 at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, he defended his doctoral dissertation with a degree in Thermal Physics and Molecular Physics. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications and 63 patents for inventions in the field of two-phase heat-transfer devices and thermal control systems. In 1999, he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for achievements in the field of science and technology. Since 1997, he has been a member of the International Heat Pipe Conference Committee. He chaired this committee from 2004 to 2016. He is a member of the National Committee on Heat and Mass Transfer of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2018, he was awarded the George Grover Medal for outstanding achievements in heat pipe science and technology.

Fabiano Mocellin was Graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and obtained his Master Degree in 2002 in a project developed in partnership with the Company Tupy S.A., for the improvement of machinability of Compacted Graphite Iron alloy, before this material was applied by the first time worldwide for series production of engine blocks. Started at Tupy in 2002 as Product and Quality Engineer, while was studying his Doctorate. In 2005 moved to Germany for the development of his Doctorate in a project associating the Company Tupy, UFSC, the Institut für Produktionsmanagement, Technologie und Werkzeugmaschinen from T.U. Darmstadt and the Company Nagel, world leader of honing tools and machines. The Doctorate developed a process for honing of Compacted Graphite Iron engine cylinder bores using an innovative strategy of high stock material removal rates, allowing the reduction of manufacturing production steps. From 2006 to 2012 worked at Tupy as Project Coordinator for the implementation of new engine blocks and heads machining lines. From 2013 to 2021 was Production Manager of the Machining Area. During this period, Tupy expanded his machining facilities to Mexico, building from a green field a plant with approximate 400 people, additional to the approximate 1000 employees at the machining plant in Joinville. His team also developed an innovative concept of flexible machining lines that is being applied in new projects since then. Currently he is Corporate Manager of Machining Engineering at Tupy.

Specialization Course in Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, UNICAMP; MsC. in Biochemical-Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo-USP; Chemical Engineer, Faculty of Chemical Engineering of Lorena (USP), with emphasis on Biotechnology. She has Acting as technical director of intellectual property at the USP Innovation Agency since 2001. Develops intellectual property protection, management and guidance activities for the USP community, in particular patents and trademarks.

Prof. Marcio Carvalho received a B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) in 1989, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, in 1995.  He worked as Senior Process Development Engineer at 3M Company and Imation Corporation (in USA) in the areas of pre-metered coating, roll coating and drying technologies.  In 1998, he moved back to Brazil, where he is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PUC-Rio.  He is also member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of Minnesota since 2007.  His research is focused on several aspects of capillary hydrodynamics, including coating process, emulsions, foams, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics in micro scale flows, numerical methods, and flow of complex fluids in porous media.  Prof. Carvalho received the John A. Talmadge Award (2020) from the International Society for Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) for his significant contributions to the understanding and development of the technology of the coating of continuous webs.  He has published more than 120 articles in scientific journals, advised 14 postdoctoral fellows, 24 PhD thesis and 49 MSc thesis. He consults for different companies, mainly in the US and Asia in the area of coating processes. In the past few years, his research group has been mostly funded by the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq), Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ) and different companies from Brazil, USA and Asia, such as Petrobras, Chevron, Equinor, Repsol-Sinopec, Shell, 3M, Hewlett-Packard, Dow, Samsung and Fuji Film.

Marcelo Favaro Borges graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS (2009), Master’s Degree in Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering with an emphasis in Metallurgy from the Post-Graduate Program in Materials, Metallurgical and Mining Engineering – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS (2013) and a PhD thesis in corrosion-fatigue assessment in flexible pipes operating in flooded annulus condition. Currently Professor and Researcher at the Department of Metallurgy at the School of Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and member of the Physical Metallurgy Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (LAMEF-UFRGS) where he is the coordinator of the group of Numerical Analysis, Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue in SURF (Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines) and other subsea equipment. Also serves as a Professor in the Graduate Program in Materials, Metallurgical and Mining Engineering (PPGE3M-UFRGS).

René Alderliesten studied aerospace engineering at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft with a specialization in fatigue damage tolerance of aerospace materials and structures. Based upon his research into the fatigue damage phenomena in Fibre Metal laminates and the development of a model to predict fatigue damage propagation for these laminated materials he obtained his PhD degree from TU Delft. The years between obtaining the MSc degree in 1999 and the PhD degree in 2005 he has worked as a researcher on Fatigue and Damage Tolerance of Hybrid Structures at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, and as a Fatigue and Damage Tolerance specialist at the Fibre Metal Laminates Centre of Competence in Delft. In 2005 he was appointed as assistant professor within the group of Prof. Rinze Benedictus on structural integrity and damage tolerance of aerospace structures. Initially, the research focused on metallic and FML structures, but in the past years the research has expanded to structures made of fibre reinforced polymer materials. The main theme in the research has been the experimental characterization of damage initiation and formation under mechanical and impact loading with in conjunction the development of mechanistic models to predict the initiation and growth of the failure modes. In 2012 he was appointed associate professor in this field with responsibility over about 3 Post-docs and 10 PhD’s. Since 2020 he is section leader of the Structural Integrity and Composites research group. René Alderliesten has been awarded the Jaap Schijve Award for his research in the field of “Fatigue and Damage Tolerance” during the 2011 Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity (ICAF) in Montreal.

Dr. Piotr A. Domanski works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA where he led the HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group for over two decades and currently is a NIST Fellow. His work has focused on modeling of air-conditioning equipment and research of alternative refrigerants. His current interests also include evolutionary computation-based optimization methods, automated commissioning, and fault detection and diagnostics with the goal to improve the performance of air conditioners and heat pumps for application in both current and net-zero structures. Dr. Domanski is an ASHRAE Fellow and the IIR Honorary President of the Science and Technology Council. He holds a M.S. degree from the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland, and a Ph.D. degree from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.

Moises A Oliveira, Dr. Eng. is graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC. From 1999 to 2001 he carried out his Master Degree at the Welding Laboratory (Labsolda/UFSC), developing the Study of Plasma Welding with Automatic Wire Feeding for Application in Metallic Coatings. From 2001 to 2006 worked in his doctor degree thesis, developing the Plasma-Mig Hybrid Process for Welding and Brazing, at the welding Laboratory Labsolda / UFSC and at the Schwesstechnische Lehr- und Vesuchsanstalten (SLV) in Munich/Germany. During the academic formation, has developed skills related to arc welding, metallic transference, welding automation, welding metallurgy, brazing and resistance welding. In 2006 started to work at Embraco/Nidec – Brazilian company, manufacturer of hermetic compressors for refrigerators, used in household and light commercial appliances, with headquarters located in Joinville-SC, and with facilities in Mexico, Slovakia, Austria and China. He started his journey at Embraco/Nidec as a welding expert, working in process applications, developments and industrialization. In 2017 was responsible for the Stamping and Welding, Motors and Chemical process cells as R&D manager. In 2018 started to develop his activities as Principal Researcher at Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Department, where is responsible for manufacturing process developments, production projects implementation and concurrent engineering.

Marco Ceccarelli received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 1988. He is Professor of Mechanics of Machines at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, where he chairs LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics. His research interests cover subjects of robot design, mechanism kinematics, experimental mechanics with special attention to parallel kinematics machines, service robotic devices, mechanism design, and history of machines and mechanisms whose expertise is documented by several published papers in the fields of Robotics. He has been visiting professor in several universities in the world and since 2014 at Beijing Institute of Technology. He is ASME fellow and doctor honoris causa from several Universities. Professor Ceccarelli serves in several Journal editorial boards and conference scientific committees. He is editor of the Springer book series on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) and History of MMS. Professor Ceccarelli is past President of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of MMS. He has published several papers on Robotics and has several patents of robot systems. He has started several IFToMM sponsored conferences including MEDER (Mechanism Design for Robotics) and MUSME (Multibody Systems and Mechatronics).

Prof. Ana S. Moita obtained the Diploma Engineer in Mechanical Engineering in 2001, MSc in Mechanical Engineering Energy in 2004 and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. She is an assistant professor in the Portuguese Military Academy, where she is the chair of Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics, and a researcher in IN+, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. A.S. Moita developed a strong background in wettability modification strategies, including micro-and-nanostructuring techniques applied to surface modification. In the last years, she has deepened these activities for microscale applications, towards devising microfluidic devices for thermal (energy conversion) and biomedical applications. PI/co-Pi of several national and international projects she is the leading researcher at the Laboratory of Interfacial plus Microscale Phenomena in IN+, Instituto Superior Técnico, since 2014. Currently she has several projects in collaboration with the industry including a large project with UFRJ – Brasil and Petrobrás, towards the development of a microchannel based heat sink to cool high concentration photovoltaic pannels. Ana Moita has been an invited lecturer for seminars in several international and national universities, including in Faculdade de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de S. Paulo, Brazil. A.S. Moita received 4 awards/distinctions. She is a reviewer for numerous international conferences, more than 60 journals and 5 funding agencies (including ESA), being part of the scientific and/or technical committee of 16 international conferences/workshops. A.S. Moita published 7 book chapters, nearly 50 peer reviewed journal papers, around 100 conference papers. She is Guest-Editor in 3 journals.

Diego Misseroni is an Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, Italy. He earned his PhD in ‘Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems’ from the University of Trento in 2013. In 2014, he was Marie Curie experienced researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK. In 2017, he was awarded the AIMETA Junior Prize in Solid and Structural Mechanics (by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics). In 2019, he was the recipient of the 2018 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award (by the University of Trento). He is the author or co-author of more than 40 publications and is currently involved in two international and two national funded research projects. He is a Member of the Mathematical Physics National Group (\Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica”, GNFM), of the Italian As-sociation of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Associazione Italiana Meccanica Teorica e Applicata”, AIMETA) and Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Materials. Since the beginning of his PhD, he has developed the Instabilities Lab at the University of Trento. His research interests are in the field of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures and include wave propagation, metamaterials and origami engineering; buckling and instabilities of structures undergoing large deformations; fracture mechanics; contact mechanics; elasto-plastic modelling and mechanical characterization of traditional and advanced ceramics; bio-inspired and bionic materials. The peculiarity of his research approach is the employment of a broad vision of mechanics. His way of attacking solid and structural mechanics problems is a combination of mechanical modelling, numerical simulation, and experimental validation.

Dr. Kiefer currently holds the Full Professor Chair of Applied Mechanics – Solid Mechanics at the Institute of Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. After completing a five-year mechanical engineering program at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2001, he joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University as a Graduate Assistant Research. There he earned his Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Professor D. C. Lagoudas in 2006 and was honored with the Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research in 2007. After returning to his native Germany, Dr. Kiefer was first employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Stuttgart (Prof. C. Miehe) and from 2010-2016 held the position of Juniorprofessor (Assistant Professor) for the Mechanics of Functional Materials at the Institute of Mechanics (Prof. A. Menzel) at TU Dortmund, Germany. Dr. Kiefer’s research focusses on the computational mechanics-based modeling and simulation of coupling phenomena across length-scales, with applications in a broad range of modern engineering materials. Such couplings can arise from intrinsic multi-physical constitutive interactions (thermal, electric, magnetic, chemical, mechanical), microstructural mechanisms (phase transformations, plasticity, damage), and coupled field equations (thermomechanical balance laws, Maxwell’s equations, reaction-diffusion equations). Dr. Kiefer was elected member of the ASME Aerospace Division, Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch in 2011, which he currently serves as Branch Treasurer. In 2020 he was elected Fellow of the ASME. Dr. Kiefer has further organized more than 30 research workshops and symposia at international conferences (e.g., GAMM, WCCM, SMASIS, USNC/TAM). He continues to enjoy engaging in fruitful research collaborations with colleagues from around the world.

Odd Sture Hopperstad obtained his PhD degree at NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1993. He was appointed professor at NTNU in 1998, where he currently teaches in structural mechanics. His main research interests are the mechanics of materials, damage- and fracture mechanics, impact mechanics and micromechanics. The research combines experiments with modelling and simulation. He is co-author of more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed solid mechanics journals. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Since 2010, he is Associate Editor in European Journal of Mechanics – A/Solids.

Daniel Straub is currently Associate Professor for engineering risk and reliability analysis at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. His interest is in developing physics-based stochastic models and methods for decision support in infrastructure, environmental and general engineering systems, with a particular focus on Bayesian techniques and decision analysis for risk and reliability analysis. Daniel is particularly interested in linking fundamental research to application-specific challenges. He is developing novel models and algorithms for reliability assessment, data analysis, decision, risk and sensitivity analysis. Concurrently, he works successfully with partners in multiple industries, including infrastructure engineering, offshore and marine engineering, geotechnical engineering, natural hazards, automotive as well as aero- and astronautical engineering. At TUM, he has (co-)supervised 21 completed PhD theses and is currently main supervisor of 8 PhD students. His group also supervises around 10-15 MSc theses annually. Daniel is past president of IFIP WG 7.5 and Geosnet. He is active in multiple professional organizations and code committees in Germany, and in the editorial boards of the leading journals in engineering reliability and risk. His awards include the ETH Silbermedaille and the Early Achievement Research Award of IASSAR. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, UK.