Prof. Emanuele Sgambitterra has a position as an Assistant Professor and is currently working at the Mechanical, Energy, and Management Engineering Department (DIMEG) of the University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Materials and Structures. His skills and expertise include Mechanical Testing, Microstructure, Materials, Material Characterization, Finite Element Analysis, Finite Element Modeling, Materials Processing, Mechanical Properties, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, and Material Characteristics. He is the author of 62 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields (source from ResearchGate).

Prof. Dr. Leonardo Pagnotta has a position as a Full Professor in Machine Design and Experimental Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering (DIMEG) of the University of Calabria. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics of Materials from the University of Pisa (Italy). He is Head of the Laboratories of Mechanical Engineering (MechLab, DIMEG, UNICAL) and Head of the Laboratory of Mechanical Characterization of Materials of MATERIA Center (LCM, UNICAL). His research activities have been addressed to numerical methodologies for stress analysis, reliability design and structural optimization, and methods of experimental mechanics applied to residual stress measurement, elastic properties measurement of isotropic and anisotropic material, fracture mechanics, and non-destructive testing. He has also worked in the field of characterization of ceramic thermal barrier coatings and metallic coatings, has dealt with mechanical characterization of materials at micro- and nano-scale and, investigated the effects of squeeze film damping on MEMS-based structures. Recently, he has studied nanostructured coatings, graphene-based composite materials, SMART materials and materials beyond graphene. Some ongoing activities concern the development, characterization and application of composite materials for artificial muscles and, the study of the failure mechanics of 3D printed polymeric and metallic parts by X-ray microtomography.