Plenary Lectures


"Development of Thermoset Composite Structures for Automotive Lightweighting"
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Henning
, Deputy Director, Fraunhofer ICT, Germany

"From graphene to carbon fibres:  mechanical properties and stress transfer in composites"
  Prof. Costas Galiotis
, FORTH/ ICE-HT and University of Patras, Greece

"Supercomposites for Automotive"
  Prof. Nicola M. Pugno
, University of Trento, Italy

"Crashworthiness Evaluation of Composite Vehicle Structural Components in Automotive Applications"
  Prof. Cing-Dao (Steve) Kan
, Director, Center for Collision Safety and Analysis, GMU, USA

"Body structure design strategies using new composite and Al materials and enabled technologies (Evolution FP7 funded project)"
  Ing. Elena Cischino
, Evolution project Technical Coordinator and Engineering Manager, Pininfarina S.p.A., Italy

"The Simulation Process Chain: From Manufacturing to Part Performance of Composites"
  Dr. AndrĂ© Haufe
, DYNAmore GmbH, Germany

Special lecture of the EU Graphene Flagship project- Special task on Automotive Composites:

"Graphene-based nanocompoistes for Automotive"
  Prof. Ahmed Elmarakbi
, Automotive Composites, University of Sunderland, UK
  Dr. Brunetto Martorana
, PR Group Materials Labs, Centro Ricerche Fiat S.c.p.A., Italy
  Ing. Francesco Bertocchi
, President Nanesa S.r.l., Italy
  Mr. Franco Innocente
, Technical Consultant, Delta Tech S.p.A., Italy
  Ms. Elvira  Abalos
, Advanced Researcher, InterQuimica, Spain