Roberto Guglielmo Citarella

Roberto Guglielmo Citarella
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Salerno, Italy

Biography

Born in Milan on February the 2nd 1969. Received the Laurea degree "summa cum laude" in 1994 in Mechanical Engineering and the Ph.D. in “Design and Construction of Machines” in 1999, both at University of Naples “Federico II”. In 1996 received the diploma for a master in Business Administration (MBA) at the school “Stoà” in Naples. Since January the 3rd 2005 is Associate Professor of "Construction of Machine" in the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIN) atthe University of Salerno. He was Visiting Researcher at the Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton (UK) and at the Queen Mary and Westfield College in London.His maintopics of research are: BEM, Vibrational Acoustics, Bioengineering, Fracture Mechanics. He has published more than 70 technical papers on internationaljournals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He serves as reviewer for several international journals and participated in the scientificcommettee of many conferences.

Research Interest

Deterministic and stochastic fracture mechanics.
Contact problems in elastostatics.
FEM-BEM coupled approach.
Structural optimisation: Taguchi method.
Vibrational-acoustic.
Bioengineering.