Antonio Papangelo

Prof. Antonio Papangelo is the head of the TriboDynamics Group and currently Associate Professor in mechanical design at Politecnico di Bari (PoliBa).
He obtained the PhD in Mechanical Engineering at PoliBa in March 2017 and during his research activity he was visiting researcher at the Sandia National Laboratories (USA), at Imperial College London (UK) and at the Hamburg University of Technology (DE). His research focus on contact mechanics, adhesion of soft materials, micro-structured interfaces, vibrations of nonlinear structure, viscoelasticity. He has coordinated several research projects, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Regione Puglia (Italy) and the European Research Council (ERC). In December 2021 Prof. Papangelo received funds for about 1.5 M€ for the research project “Towards Future Interfaces with Tuneable Adhesion by Dynamic Excitation” (SURFACE, 101039198), funded under the call ERC-2021-Starting Grant. SURFACE aims to design microstructure interfaces with macroscopic adhesive properties that can be actively adjusted through the use of appropriate dynamic excitations. SURFACE’s results are relevant in the field of human-robot interaction and for soft robotics manipulators.

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Education

03/2017 PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Thesis: "Stick-Slip Transition and Dynamic Cyclic Response of Friction Damped Systems"

12/2013 Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, 110/110 cum laude, Thesis: “Interpretations of static friction innovative experiments with applications to creep groan”

10/2011 Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, 110/110 cum laude, Thesis: “Finite Element study of the elastic stability of thin wall rods” Bari, Italy

Research Experience

04/2022 - present, Associate Professor in machine design (SSD ING-IND/14), direct call by the Minister of University and Research

10/2022 - present, Head of the “TriboDynamics Lab” at the Department of Mechanics Mathematics and Management, PoliBa, (SSD ING-IND/14)

08/2019 – 03/2022 Fixed-Term Junior Researcher (RTDa) at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Bari, Italy

02/2018 - 02/2025 – Visiting Researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics Group.

11/2018 - 07/2019 Research Fellow (DFG project, PA 3303/1-1) at the Hamburg University of Technology

01/2018 - 10/2018 Post-Doctoral researcher Polytechnic University of Bari, Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Bari, Italy

10/2016 - 01/2018 Research Fellow (DFG project HO 3852/11-1.) at the Hamburg University of Technology

11/2015 - 03/2016 Visiting PhD student Imperial College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering, London, United Kingdom

06/2015 - 07/2015 Visiting PhD Student Sandia National Laboratories, Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics Summer Research Institute 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

05/2013 – 08/2013 Trainer (Erasmus placement) Topic: transition from sticking to sliding, friction, contact mechanics Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=kUaZTJYAAAAJ&hl=it

TriboDynamics Group web-site: https://tribodynamicslab.poliba.it/