Fernando Fraternali

Gerardo Carpentieri
E-mail: gcarpentieri@unisa.it
url: www.gcarpentieri.altervista.org
MSc Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy, September 2011 (grade 110/110 cum laude). Thesis project: “Design-Oriented analysis methods for masonry structures in seismic areas: theoretical formulation and validation on experimental results”, Advisors: Enzo Martinelli (University of Salerno) and Matija Gams (ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute).
BSc Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy, September 2008 (grade 110/110 cum laude), Thesis project: “Metodologie distruttive e non distruttive per la valutazione delle caratteristiche meccaniche del calcestruzzo (in italian)”, Advisors: Ciro Faella and Nicola Salerno (University of Salerno).
PhD in Structural Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy, March 2015, Thesis project: “On the mechanical modeling and the optimal design of tensegrity structures”, Advisors: Fernando Fraternali (University of Salerno) and Robert E. Skelton (University of California San Diego)

Research scientist in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, contributing to several research projects within the groups led by Professors Ada Amendola and Fernando Fraternali.
Internship at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department of the University of California San Diego, June 2015 – November 2015
Internship at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, November 2015
Internship at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology, September 2012 - December 2012
Erasmus Placement at the ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, May 2011 - July 2011

2013 – Member of the Engineering Society of Avellino (Section A)
Perfect knowledge of COMSOL, Rhino, Photoshop, AutoCAD, GeoStudio, LaTeX, Mathematica, MatLab, SAP2000.