1. ANDREA MINELLI
AEROSPACE ENGINEER (DOUBLE DEGREE), PHD CANDIDATE
DATE OF BIRTH: 28 MARCH 1985
NATIONALITY : ITALIAN
andreaminelli.08@gmail.com
(+33) 0602044346
OBJECTIVE
A position in the field of aerospace sciences with emphasis on the research in the aerodynamics
field and orbital mechanics. Design, numerical simulations and optimization represent the main
area of interest.
EXPERIENCE
October 2010 – actually ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab, Dept. of Applied Aerodynamics
Civil Aircraft Unit. (Meudon, France)
Ph.D candidate in Applied Mathematics.
Thesis: Reduction of the sonic boom of a supersonic
business jet configuration limiting the degradation of the
aerodynamic performance with innovative multi-objective algorithms
March 2010 – July 2010 INRIA – Project team OPALE (Sophia Antipolis, France)
Spring internship.
Project: Reduction of the sonic boom of a supersonic
business jet configuration limiting the degradation of the
aerodynamic performance with innovative multi-objective algorithms
EDUCATION
2007 – 2010 Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy)
M.Sc. Space engineering
Final project : Analogies between astrodynamics and cancer
Immunotherapy.
Final mark : 110 CUM LAUDE / 110
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2. 2007 – 2010 Politecnico di Torino (Milano, Italy)
M.Sc. Aerospace engineering
Final project : MOOREA. Moon Research Architecture
Final mark : 110 CUM LAUDE / 110
2007 – 2010 Alta Scuola Politecnica (Milano - Torino, Italy)
Alta Scuola Politecnica Diploma
Final project : MOOREA. Moon Research Architecture
2004 – 2007 Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy)
B.Sc. Aerospace engineering
Final project : Evaluation of the performance of a racing wodden
aircraft.
Final mark : 108 / 110
LANGUAGE SKILLS
ITALIAN Mother tongue
Reading Writing Verbal
ENGLISH excellent excellent excellent
FRENCH excellent medium excellent
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Diploma : European computer driving license ECDL
CAD Software : AutoCAD, Catia, SolidEdge
Simulation Software: MatLab
FEA Software: Femap, Nastran
Mesh Software: Ansys ICEM, GMSH
Language : C, Fortran, Python
CFD : elsA, CEDRE, Panair
Others : Office suite, UNIX, Windows
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3. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS AND PRIZES
2012 CONGRESS A. Minelli, I. Salah el Din, G. Carrier, Advanced Optimization Approach
for Supersonic Low-Boom Design. 18th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics
Conference (33rd AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference).
2011 ARTICLE A. Minelli, F. Topputo, F. Bernelli Zazzera , Controlled Drug Delivery in
Cancer Immunotherapy: Stability, Optimization, and Monte Carlo
Analysis. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Volume 71 Issue 6.
2011 CONGRESS I. Salah el Din, M.-C. Le Pape, A. Minelli, R. Grenon, G. Carrier
Impact of Multipole Matching Resolution on Supersonic Aircraft Sonic
boom CFD prediction methodology in use at ONERA and its application
to Supersonic Business Jet configuration design.
4TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR AEROSPACE SCIENCES (EUCASS)
2011.
2011 CONGRESS I. Salah el Din, G. Carrier, R. Grenon, M.-C. Le Pape, A. Minelli
Overview of Sonic boom CFD prediction methodology in use at ONERA
and its application to Supersonic Business Jet configuration design.
11th ONERA-DLR Aerospace Symposium, ODAS 2011.
2010 TECH. REPORT A.Minelli , J-A. Desideri, G. Carrier, R. Duvigneau, I. Salah El Din,
Aeroacoustic optimization of a supersonic business jet. INRIA RR-7477.
2010 PRIZE Best graduate students of the year (Politecnico di Milano)
2009 CONGRESS A.Minelli V.Sumini, The new frontier of tourism: Space. Development
of a feasible configuration for a Moon Space Hotel.
SpaceLand 1st EXPOCONGRESS 2009.
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