Polytechnic University of Bari
Prof. Carmine Putignano
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management,
Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Carmine Putignano has been appointed as Associate Professor in Applied Mechanics at Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) starting from October 2021. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications, in the field of Applied Mechanics and, in particular, in Tribology, and has been principal investigator in a number of industrial and research projects, including collaborations with Bosch, Toyota, SKF, AC2T. His approach to research is marked by a strong attitude to international collaboration: Prof. Putignano has been recipient of a Marie Curie Intra European fellowship at Imperial College London (UK), a Fulbright scholarship at University of Delaware (USA), and Humbolt fellowship for experienced researchers at the University of Kiel (Germany). His expertise is mainly related to the development of numerical methods, adequately validated by experiments, to study soft matter tribology in dry and lubricated conditions; recently, he has started to direct his research to biomechanical problems, focusing con cartilage mechanics in human joints and solid lubrication in invertebrates.
Prof. Giuseppe Carbone
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management,
Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Carbone is currently Full Professor of Applied Mechanics, and President of the Italian Tribology Association. He held the position of Head of Department during the period 2018-2024. In 2010 he founded the Tribology Lab at Polytechnic University of Bari. He has been Visiting Scientist at the Juelich Research Center (Germany) and at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), Academic Visitor at the Imperial College London, and Visiting Scholar at University of North Texas. He is Research Associate at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the National Council of Research – Italy. His scientific interests focus mainly on tribology, contact mechanics, viscoelastic materials, adhesion, biomimetics, mechanical transmissions, mechanical vibrations, system dynamics, soft robotics grips, swarm intelligence and complex systems. His research has been funded from National and European programmes and private companies with more than 8 million €.
Prof. Leonardo Soria
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management,
Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Leonardo Soria has been Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, of Politecnico di Bari since 2019. He has been the head of the Noise and Vibration Laboratory (NVLab) at his Department for about 20 years. His main research interests are in the field of noise and vibration engineering, including the dynamic identification and monitoring of systems, with specific focus on road and rail vehicles, and the multiphysics modeling of mems, comprising vibrating micro-structures, immersed in viscous fluids. He is the author of overall about 60 publications, of which a third are international journal papers, and 1 invention, of which he holds 3 national patents (Japan, China, and Europe). He has been involved in several research projects funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research and by the Apulia Region Administration, where he has been the coordinator for several research lines, as in international cooperation activities with foreign universities and industrial partners.
Dr. Michele Santeramo
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management,
Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Michele Santeramo received Bachelor’s Degree (2017) and Master’s Degree (2020) in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari. In 2023, he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Management Engineering defending his thesis “Numerical and Experimental Methods for Viscoelastic Circular Contacts in Dry and Lubricated Conditions”, which is the result of the joint project between Politecnico di Bari and the Austrian Excellence Center for Tribology (AC2T). Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Politecnico di Bari.
His main research activities move in the field of tribology, with particular focus on both adhesive and adhesiveless interactions between soft bodies