Maurizio Collu

Current

Research Fellow at Cranfield University

Past

Software engineer at "Engineering Ingegneria Informatica"
Researcher at Politecnico di Milano
Substitute Teacher at junior school "Bagatti Valsecchi"

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Education

Cranfield University
Politecnico di Milano

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Maurizio Collu’s Summary

Maurizio Collu graduated with a Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering (mark 100/100) in Milan, Italy.

In 2005 he joined Cranfield University and the Offshore Engineering & Naval Architecture Group for doctoral research under the supervision of Prof Minoo Patel. In his thesis, "Dynamics of Marine Vehicles with Aerodynamic Surfaces (2008)", he developed a coupled aero-hydro dynamics model for a new class of high speed marine vehicles; hybrid between an aircraft, a wing in ground effect vehicle and a high speed marine vehicle.

From November 2008 he is a Research Fellow in the same department. His main tasks are:
1) Offshore Renewable Energy: preliminary design of a floating support structure for a vertical axis wind turbine (NOVA project)

2) AAMV Research Supervisor: carrying on the PhD work, further developing the study of high speed marin vehicles with aerodynamic surfaces

Areas of interest:
- AAMV (Aerodynamically Alleviated Marine Vehicles) Dynamics
- Offshore Renewable Energy

- Renewable Energy: biofuel production and CO2 fixation simulation models

Maurizio Collu’s Specialties:

Simulation engineer, renewable energy model, mathematical models, stability, dynamics

Maurizio Collu’s Experience

Research Fellow

Cranfield University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Areas of interests:

- Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Engineer:
-> planing craft dynamics
-> wing in ground effect vehicles dynamics
-> aerodynamically alleviated high speed marine vehicles

- Renewable energy
-> biofuel production
-> wind turbines
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Software engineer

"Engineering Ingegneria Informatica"

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — October 2005 (6 months)

Software engineer at the Security Department of BPM ("Banca Popolare di Milano", Bank of Milan).
Researcher

Politecnico di Milano

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

March 2004 — December 2004 (10 months)

Development of a combustion mathematical model for novel solid propellant for space propulsion:

* Theoretical investigation (Mathematical model of the combustion kinetics)
* Numerical simulation (Numerical implementation of the mathematical model, MATLAB)
* Experimental validation (Preparation of the propellant - Burn tests - Combustion rate measures)
Substitute Teacher

junior school "Bagatti Valsecchi"

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)

September 2001 — December 2001 (4 months)

Substitute teacher for maths, chemical and physical sciences at the junior school "Bagatti Valsecchi", Varedo (Milan), Italy

Maurizio Collu’s Education

Cranfield University

PhD , Aerospace and Naval Engineering , 2005 — 2008

PhD dissertation on: "Dynamics of Marine Vehicle with Aerodynamic Surfaces".
Politecnico di Milano

M. Sc Aerospace Engineering , Aerospace , 1999 — 2004

Dissertation titled “A Combustion Model for Novel Composite Solid Propellant for Space Propulsion”, 2004.