Giovanni Belingardi

Title for talk: Safety Design of Automotive Vehicles:  Recent Advances, Trends and Perspectives

Giovanni Belingardi was born in Torino in 1951, he got his Master degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 1975.

From 1995 he is full Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Dept of the Politecnico di Torino.

His present research activity is mainly devoted to structural design and experimental testing in automotive engineering, with particular attention to lightweight design of the car body and to passive safety of vehicle occupants and pedestrians.

He is author of more than 360 papers published in international scientific journals and in proceedings of national and international conferences.

He has recently been the scientific coordinator of the Operative Units of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department for a number of projects of the framework programs of the European Union, of the National and Regional Governments. Research cooperation with industrial partners has been effective as well.

In 2016 he has been appointed as the scientific responsible of the Interdepartmental Center CARS@PoliTo that is fully dedicated to the sustainable mobility and vehicle of the future.

He is the responsible for International cooperation of Politecnico di Torino within the frame of the Automotive Engineering, with particular attention toward Canada, US, Brazil, Poland and Serbia.

Maria Pia Cavatorta

Title for the talk “Exoskeletons and robots to assist human work in the smart factory”.

 Maria Pia Cavatorta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She received her MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1995 and a PhD in Machine Design in 1999 at the same University. From 1997 to 1998, she was a visiting scholar at the University at Urbana-Champaign (USA).

In 2008 she was appointed by the Rector as Politecnico representative within the Framework Agreement with FCA (now Stellantis) for activities in education, cooperation and research on ergonomics of manufacturing systems. Member of the international ISO and CEN standardization working groups on ergonomics, her research interest’s focus on the integration of technology and human factors into workplace design to improve operator’s well-being and system productivity (in the respect of gender issues and of people with special needs).