Erasmo Carrera

Prof of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Politecnico di Torino, Italy
President of the Board of Directors of Space It Up

Dr Erasmo Carrera is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Politecnico di Torino. He acts as President of the Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, A.I.D.A.A, member of Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, International Academy of Astronautics and of Academie de l’Air et de l’Espace. He is the President of the Board of Director of the Space It Up Company, leading the most important homonymous space project funded by the Agenzia Spaziale Italina. He has been the recipient of FIS 3 project FEM 2.0. He has been visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart, Virginia Tech, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Tambov University, Supmeca and Ensam, Ning Bo University, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. Dr Carrera has been responsible for various research contracts granted by public and private national and international institutions, including the European Community, European Space Agency, Thales Alenia Space and Embraer. He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, Editor-in-Chief of Mechanics of Advanced Materials Structures and Section Editor of Journal and Sound and Vibration.

He has introduced the Unified Formulation, or CUF (Carrera Unified Formulation), as a tool to establish a new framework to develop theories of beams, plates and shells for metallic and composite multilayered structures. CUF has been applied to meshless, finite element methods to classical and mixed variational framework as well as to linear and nonlinear problems. In particular CUF has originated to so called NDK-FE, Node Dependent Kinematics version of Finite Elements.

He has been author and co-author of about 800 papers on the above topics. Carrera has been recipient of various 'best paper award' and of the 'JN Reddy Medal'. He has been awarded as Honorary Qiushi Professor at Zhejiang University.

Professor Carrera has been Highly Cited Researchers (Top 100 Scientist) by Thompson Reuters in the two Sections: Engineering and Materials. He has been confirmed HiCI in 2015 in the Section Engineering. The only aerospace Engineering worldwide. Due to his scientific outcoming professor Carrera has been awarded by the President of Italian Republic, as 'Honoray Commendator'. He has been appointed Loc-Chair of IAC 2024 (Milan) and ICAS 2024 (Florence), AIAA CEAS Aeroaciustic 2024 (Rome) and General Chair of SSDM, ASME 2025 (Long Beach, CA), Chair od CEAS-AIDAA 2025 (Torino), Loc Chair of AIAA- AIDAA Hypersonic 2026 (Naples), and Chair of ICMAMS 5th, 2026 (Toulouse). Due to its service to AIDAA he is been the recipient of AIDAA excellence award 2025.