Luca obtained a MSc in Architecture, a DEA in Structural Dynamics at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées in Paris, a PhD in Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics at Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre. He currently works at Politecnico di Torino, Dept. of Architecture and Design. He was the recipients of the ANIV Award in 2002, and of the IABSE Outstanding Paper Award in 2008. His first scientific love is CWE applied to bridges, bluff bodies, aeroelasticity, windblown sand modelling, crowd flows. In spite of passion for his mountains, he never applied it to windblown snow, at least up to now.

Nicolas obtained a Bsc in Mathematics, a MSc Research in Fluid Dynamics, and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics at Aix-Marseille University. He is co-founder of OptiFlow, a Company specialized in Computational Wind Engineering since 1998, where he is charge of Research & Development and High-Performance Computing activities. He is member of the Windblown Sand Modeling and Mitigation group, a joint research development and consulting group established between Optiflow and Politecnico di Torino. He is member of the French Wind Engineering Association (AIV). Nicolas has been involved as CWE consultant in more than 60 very large projects worldwide in Architecture, Engineering & Construction industry. He participated national and international computational benchmarks (e.g. BARC benchmark promoted by ANIV), and European and industrial research projects (e.g. H2020/MSCA SMaRT and HyPer, MUR PROTEECT).

Claudio obtained a MSc in Environmental Engineering at the University of Florence, a PhD in Vulnerability and Fluid-Soil-Structure Interaction at the University of Florence and at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He currently works at the University of Florence, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he teaches Wind Engineering and Steel Structures. He was the recipients of the ANIV Award in 2008, the IAWE Junior Award in 2011 and the EASD Junior Research Prize in 2014. His research work has mainly been focused on bridge aerodynamics, bluff body aerodynamics and flow-induced vibrations. In these fields, he has always tried to take advantage of the fruitful synergy between CWE and wind tunnel tests.

Alessandro obtained a MSc in Aerospace Engineering at Università di Pisa and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering – Fluid Mechanics at the “Scuola di Dottorato Leonardo da Vinci” of the same university. He currently is Assistant Professor in Experimental Aerodynamics at Università di Pisa, and his main research field is the experimental and numerical study of complex flows. The main activities he carried out concern the experimental and numerical analysis and control of the flow separation around bluff bodies and the development of methods for drag reduction; the experimental and numerical study of the flow in micro-reactors; uncertainty quantification; simulation and in-vitro experiments of hemodynamics problems; numerical evaluation of coastal erosion; wind-tunnel tests and aerodynamics optimization. He obtained the ANIV Award in 2018

Luca received his MSc degree in Civil Engineering at University of Bologna. After an internship at CSTB Nantes, he obtained his PhD with a thesis on the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics for the evaluation of bridges aeroelastic stability. He has been member of Collegio Superiore of University of Bologna and has been awarded the Prix INNO-VENT 2016 provided by AIV (Association de l’Ingenierie du Vent Belgique – France – Suisse). He is currently Assistant Professor at University of Bologna and his research work concentrates on Computational Mechanics with a focus on Computational Wind Engineering.

Paolo obtained a MSc in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. His research activity is mainly in numerical and experimental Wind Engineering and Wind Energy, with some experiences in vehicle aerodynamics. Besides Applied Mechanics, he teaches Aero-Hydrodynamics of sails at Politecnico di Milano and at the Master in Yacht Design, where he shares the scientific part of sailing and his passion for races and cruises with the students.

Giuseppe achieved the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering and the PhD degree in Structural Engineering in 2002 at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Giuseppe was engaged in an internship at the Magneti Marelli France (in Paris), on computational methods for fluid-structure-interaction industrial problems. Actually, he is professor of Mechanics of Materials and Structures at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He was visiting professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. His main research topics are: computational wind engineering, bridge aeroelasticity, fluid-structure interaction problems, biomechanics, mechanics of smart materials and structures.