Associate professor (Applied mechanics)
Università degli Studi di Parma,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura
Parma, Italy.
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I am Associate Professor at the University of Parma, where I lead the DigitalDynamics Lab.
I am the founder of Project Chrono, one of the most used multi-physics simulation libraries.
My research focuses on computational mechanics: numerical methods for large scale multibody and FEA problems, formulations for contact problems and non-smooth dynamics, real time simulation. Other research areas: robotics, computer graphics, tribology.
Member of IACM, International Association for Computational Mechanics.
Member of the ASME and member of ASME technical committee TC-MSDN.
Member of the Editorial board of Multibody System Dynamics (Springer).
Member of the Editorial board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
Member of the Editorial board of International Journal of Vehicle Performance (IJVP).
I am author of more than half a million of lines of C++ code.
Other programming languages that I know: C, C++, RPL, FORTH, Pascal, Basic, ROOPS, Java,
Javascript, ECMA scripting, SQL, PHP, Matlab, Makefile, C++/CLI,
Assembler, Python, C#.
Known APIs and SDKs: CUDA, MPI, Doxygen, SVN, CVS, GIT, Apache, LaTeX, CMake, Markdown, GNU tools, Android SDK, NET and COM interop, Matlab, Simulink, SciPy, NumPy, VTK, MPICH2, ParaView
I collaborate with Altair to deliver a library for real-time vehicle simulation and a next-gen visualization tool based on UnrealEngine. See video here.
I have been organizing the International Multibody summer school at the University of Parma, since 2016. In collaboration with Politecnico di Milano
