Dr. Stefano Mariani
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Dr. Stefano Mariani received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in civil engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 1999; both degrees are from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He was a research scholar at the Danish Technical University in 1997, an adjunct professor at Penn State University in 2007, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Algorithms, International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Inventions, Machines, Micro and Nanosystems, Micromachines, and Sensors. He has been a recipient of the Associazione Carlo Maddalena Prize for graduate students (1996), and of the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for PhD students (2000). His main research interests are: the reliability of MEMS that are subject to shocks and drops; the structural health monitoring of composite structures through MEMS sensors; numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and of quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; the calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; and multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites.

Dr. Francesco Ciucci
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Dr. Francesco Ciucci is an associate professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he was supported by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and a Bechtel Fellowship. He did his postdoc at the University of Heidelberg’s Institute of Scientific Computing, where he received a Heidelberg Graduate School postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant. Prior to that, he obtained a dual M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics/Applied Physics at the Ecole Centrale Paris, France and in Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. His current research interests include the development of batteries and fuel cells.

Dr. Dirk Lehmhus
ISIS Sensorial Materials
Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, Germany

Dr. Dirk Lehmhus received his mechanical engineering diploma based on studies (at Volkswagen’s central laboratory) dedicated to the galvanic corrosion of magnesium alloys. He joined Fraunhofer IFAM in 1998, and has been working on metallic foams and structures since then. Dr. Lehmhus obtained a PhD in production technology at Bremen University for studies concerning the optimization of aluminum foam production processes and properties. From 2006 to 2009, he lectured on “Materials Science and Mechanics” at the University of Applied Science (FH) Bremen. In May 2009, he moved to the University of Bremen to become managing director of its Scientific Center ISIS (Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering), the foundation of which he helped organize. The center is dedicated to the development of sensorial materials and sensor-equipped structures. Since 2009, he has been regularly involved in topic and symposium coordination at the Euromat conference series, with a special focus on materials with transport applications.

Dr. Tom Messervey
CEO and Co-Founder
Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy

Dr. Tom Messervey has over 20 years of engineering experience, which includes military service in the US Army Corps of Engineers, industrial experience with the Italian Engineering Company, D’Appolonia, teaching excellence at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and coaching services as the EU Facilitator for the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program (www.ims.org). He serves as an expert for the European Commission in textiles, manufacturing, and energy efficiency. His research interests focus on using sensor data to make better engineering decisions across design, assessment, maintenance, inspections, and energy management to include machine learning. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), the International Association of Life Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), and a technical reviewer for the International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering and the Journal of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.

Dr. Alberto Vallan
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Dr. Alberto Vallan received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Instrumentation from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronic Measurements with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino. From 2000 to present, he has been a lecturer in courses concerning Electronic Measurements and Sensors. His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of fiber sensors and measuring instruments for biomedical and industrial applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE/Instrumentation&Measurement Society.

Dr. Stefan Bosse
Department of Computer Science, Workgroup Robotics, University of Bremen, Germany

Dr. Stefan Bosse received his physics diploma in the year 1998 at the University of Bremen addressing surface distortion measuring methods based on correlation analysis of scattered laser light. He received a doctoral degree in physics in the year 2002 at the University of Bremen based on laser-light scattering measuring methods used for high-viscose liquid flow analysis. Beside natural science, his scientific interests were devoted from the beginning to distributed computing systems and distributed operating systems. In the year 2004 he joined the Department of Computer Science and the working group robotics working as a senior researcher and lecturer. Since 2002 until today he focuses his work on parallel and distributed systems in general, sensor networks and sensorial materials, Artificial Intelligence (Agents and Machine Learning), Cloud-based computing and the Internet-of-Things, but also on System-on-Chip circuit design and computer aided design (high-level synthesis). Interdisciplinary work is one major skill. Since 2008 he conducts projects in the ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre pushing interdisciplinary research bridging material and computer sciences, and recently joining the ISIS council. He acts as a reviewer and guest editor for international journals and joins international conference programme committees, and he gives multiple lectures at the University covering basics of computer science, parallel and distributed systems, circuit design, and material-integrated sensing systems.

Dr. Francisco Falcone
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain

Dr. Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless, From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis, with applications to context aware environments, Smart Cities and Smart Regions. He has over 400 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation.