Alberto Ciampaglia

Alberto Ciampaglia is a Fixed-term Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino. He is affiliated with the College of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Automotive Engineering and the Interdepartmental Center CARS@PoliTO for Automotive Research and Sustainable Mobility. His research focuses on composite structures, lightweight design, and mechanistic data science.

Research Interests:

• Composite structures
• Multiscale modeling
• Structural health monitoring
• Machine learning for material characterization
• Additive manufacturing
• Lightweight design

Publications and Research Trends: His recent articles emphasize physics-informed machine learning for composite materials, with a focus on fatigue analysis, defect modeling, and uncertainty quantification in additive manufacturing. Multiscale approaches bridge microstructural defects (e.g., voids in lattice structures) to macroscopic mechanical behavior, while his work on origami crash boxes optimizes energy absorption via experimental and numerical methods.

Scientific Affiliations:

• Effective member, NAFEMS Engineering Data Science Working Group (2024–present)
• Effective member, SAE (2020–2022)
• Visiting Researcher, Northwestern University (2021–2022)

Projects: He leads the UE-funded PLEIADES project on aerospace composites and serves as Scientific Responsible for commercial research contracts on polymer characterization and thermal-structural modeling.