Biography

Director for Technology Transfer & Innovation

Renato Picelli is a mechanical engineer and holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, 2015), including a 12-month sandwich research period at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands). He was a post-doctoral researcher at Cardiff University (United Kingdom) and a visiting scholar at RMIT University (Australia) and at the University of California, San Diego (USA). In 2018, he joined the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (EP-USP) as a FAPESP Young Investigators Awardee and became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (PNV) in 2022.

He is the leader of the Offshore Technology and Topology Optimization laboratory (OTTO lab). The group is interested in parametric, shape and topology optimization of multiphysics problems and has experience with acoustic- and fluid-structure interaction, mechanical stress and fluid dynamics problems. Applications include the design of ships and offshore structures, energy systems (such as fuel cells) and pneumatic machinery for mitigation of CO2 and methane emission. Prof. Picelli works for RCGI’s GHG program and is Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation. He maintains close collaborations with the following institutions: TU Delft (The Netherlands), Kyoto University (Japan), Karlstad University (Sweden), and RMIT University (Australia).

Prof. Picelli is the author or co-author of more than 40 papers published in indexed peer- reviewed scientific journals. He has coordinated a few research projects sponsored by FAPESP. He is currently responsible for the under- and post-graduate courses of Engineering Optimization at the PNV. He is a member of Early Career Special Committee of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO).