Professor of Aircraft Structures in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy (From July 08); Reader in Nonlinear Applied Mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London UK (October 07-June 08); Senior lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London UK (October 04-September 07); Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London UK (March 99-October 04); Lecturer in the Department of Structural and Transportation Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy (December 94-March 99); Research Associate in the Department of Aeronautics of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (October 93-November 94).
In the last years he obtained the follwowing achievements: a research contract form the Italian company Dainese, to develop the computer aided design of composite motorbike safety helmets; he has been the originator and the main proposer and the co-ordinator of the Research Training Network MYMOSA of the EU (Marie Curie Research Training Network) on the motorcycle safety with a budget of 2.7 million Euros for four years. 14 institutions are members of the network: 5 universities, 3 research centres and 6 companies of seven European countries, www.mymosa.eu/; he has obtained from the Veneto Region a Research contract POR with OZ SpA. The research contract is worth more than 1m Euros, of which 75,000 are for my university team; he has been awarded a Research project of the ‘CARIPARO Eccellenza scheme’ on impact behaviour of multifunctional panels, 250,000 Euros for three years; he has been awarded a Research project of the EU (Marie Curie Research Training Network) MOTORIST, 260,000 over four years.
His research activities have been sponsored by the EU, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC and industry. He is often required to act as a referee by prestigious scientific international journals, international conferences and funding bodies. He published more than fifty papers in international journals and his contributions have been presented to more than seventy conferences.
Prof. Galvanetto has been the supervisor or co-supervisor of 7 PhD students who have already obtained their PhD degree and he is currently supervising or co-supervising 6 more PhD students.
Main research fields are: design of innovative items of personal protective equipment; computational mechanics applied to various problems of advanced composite materials such as delamination and impacts; application of the methods of non-linear dynamics to the analysis, control and damage detection of mechanical and structural systems; application of the peridynamics to structural computations; structural reliability analysis.
