Gender	Male
Education and training
Dates	October 2004 – March 2008
Title of qualification awarded	Master’s Degree Course in Aerospace Engineering 110/110 and honours (highest possible grade in the Italian system)
Principal subjects	Applied Aerodynamics and CFD Space Propulsion Aerospace Structures and Aeroelasticity Flight Dynamics and Flight Control Space Systems
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	University of Bologna – Forlì campus 40, via Fontanelle, 47100 Forlì, Italy
Dates	October 2001 – October 2004
Title of qualification awarded	Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering 108/110
Principal subjects	Aircrafts Aerodynamics Aerospace Propulsion Aerospace Structures and Materials Flight Mechanics and Control Systems
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	University of Bologna – Forlì campus 40, via Fontanelle, 47100 Forlì, Italy
Dates	September 1996 – July 2001
Title of qualification awarded	Scientific High School Diploma 100/100
Principal subjects	Mathematics Physics Chemistry Italian and English Literature
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Liceo Scientifico Statale ‘Alessandro Tassoni’ 66, viale Reiter, 41100 Modena, Italy
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue	Italian
Other language(s)	English, German
Social skills and competences	-          Team spirit gained during the training period in Forlì from July 2004 to September 2004. I was involved in the project and construction of a laboratory facility to check Mach – Froude hydraulic analogy. The facility was utilized to perform experiments. Results are included in my Bachelor’s Thesis. -          Team spirit and working philosophy gained during the European exchange program “Leonardo” in Germany. I performed experiments on thermoacoustic instability for modern gas turbines systems at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Acoustical Engineering (ISTA) in Berlin. The training started in October 2006 and lasted for 6 months. I received the Europass Mobility.
Computer skills and competences	Operative systems: Microsoft Windows XP -          Good command of Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint. In 2003 I attended courses at New Horizons Learning center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA -          Good knowledge of web browser Internet Explorer and Outlook Express client -          Good knowledge of MikteX -          Good knowledge of Matlab -          Good knowlwdge of structure analysis software ANSYS -          Good knowledge of LaVision DaVis (Intelligent Imaging Applications) -          Good Knowledge of Solid Edge 16 -          Good knowledge of graphic design applications: Adobe PhotoShop
Interests	Aeronautics (preliminary design), space propulsion, gas turbines   Photography and photo-retouch
Driving licence	Category B
Attachments	Abstract of my master thesis; it was presented at the AIAA Conference of Reno, Nevada, 2008. Please log on to http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMASM08_1065/PV2008_1058.pdf

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