Alfonso Pagani

Alfonso Pagani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (City University of London, 2016) and a Ph.D. in Fluid-dynamics (Politecnico di Torino). His work focuses on aerospace structures, composites, computational mechanics, and multiscale modeling.

Research Interests: Aerospace engineering, composite materials, deployable structures, nonlinear dynamics, and spacecraft design. He leads the MUL2 research group and has secured major grants including an ERC Starting Grant (2019) for variable stiffness composites and PNRR projects on additive manufacturing and renewable composites.

Recent publications analyze thermal stresses in 3D printed composites, variable stiffness optimization, and deployable space structures. His work integrates Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF) with machine learning for structural analysis.

• ERC Starting Grant (2019)
• ACAM8 Best Paper Award (2014)
• Ian Marshall Best Student Paper (2013)
• Ernesto and Ben Omega Petrazzini Scholarship (2012)
• Aldo Muggia Award (2012)

He teaches courses such as Asymptotic Methods in Structural Mechanics and Peridynamics, and supervises Ph.D. students in mechanical and aerospace engineering. He collaborates with institutions including Caltech, Purdue, and RMIT, and co-organizes international conferences on advanced materials.