BIO of Raj Das

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Biography - Dr Raj Das

Biography: Dr Raj Das, RMIT University

Dr Raj Das leads the ‘Advanced Mechanics and Materials’ group in the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation discipline of the School of Engineering of RMIT University in Australia. He is also an honorary academic in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Das is a principal investigator of the ‘Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre’ of RMIT University, and also an adjunct academic of the University of Quebec, Canada. He serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ of Engineers Australia.

Dr Raj Das has more than 15 years of experience in design, analysis and optimisation of aerospace materials and structures with a focus on computational simulation, composite structures, failure analysis, and damage tolerance optimisation for civil and defence applications. Dr Das has a PhD from Monash University, Australia in Structural Optimisation and Failure Analysis. Dr Das has previously worked in the University of Auckland, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the University of Manchester.

Dr Das has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries. Dr Das has been granted several national and international awards and fellowships.

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BIO of Patrizia Trovalusci

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Prof. Patrizia Trovalusci is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (Sapienza). She has published over 200 articles in international journals, volumes, conference proceedings and more; she has organized 3 international Conferences, 20 International Minisymposia and 3 International Advanced Courses on Solid and Structural Mechanics: Continuous Generalized, constitutive aspects ("innovative", composite, and traditional materials, masonry); Masonry structures of historical and monumental interest, computational aspects. She is a member and / or Associate Editor of several editorial boards of international journals; of numerous international scientific societies and competition commissions, national and international, for teacher recruitment. She edited a number of Special Issues on prestigious international journals. She is the 'Principal Investigator' of numerous competitive national Research Projects and participant in international Research Projects. She has given 11 Plenary/KeyNotes lectures on Multiscale Methods for Materials with Microstructure. She teaches Solids and Structural Mechanics and Structural Performance of Historical Masonry in BCs and MSc courses and coordinates the Degree Atelier of "Reuse and Recycling Centers" (LAB-RECYCLING) in the Faculty of Architecture (Sapienza). In 2017 was awarded with the Computational Methods Award by the Committee of the International Conference on Computational Methods.

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