Bonaventura TAGLIAFIERRO
Civil Engineer & Architect | Ph.D. | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Researcher
Scopus ID: 57203894923
Scholar: btagliafierro
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Post-Doc Fellow Researcher @ BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain (Oct 2022 – July 2024)
- R&D PI-Break: Numerical simulations to assess breakwaters performance using DualSPHysics
- Modeling of two different areas along the main breakwater in Bilbao (Spain)
Honorary Associate @ UW-Madison Simulation Based Engineering Lab (SBEL), Wisconsin (Feb - Aug 2023)
- R&D Floating offshore wind simulation: awarded a Fulbright Schuman fellowship
- Research on numerical implementation of control system for offshore wind technology
Visiting Researcher Scholar @ Queen’s University Belfast, UK (Jan – Apr 2022)
- Research activities co-funded by HPC-Europa3 program
- Investigation of tension-leg platform performance using the SPH method
- Simulations performed on the CirrusII supercomputer (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Long simulation with extreme sea states defined through 50-year return period events
Visiting Researcher Scholar @ University of Vigo, Spain (June – Aug 2021)
- Research activities co-funded by the Wave Energy Converter Array Network (WECANet), and EPhysLab
- Improvement of the current version of DualSPHysics
- Investigation of the Uppsala WEC device, a point absorber equipped with sophisticated power take-off system
Visiting Researcher Scholar @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Mar 2020 - Feb 2021)
- Laboratory testing to assess base-plate connection performance
- Numerical modeling of the base plate using a beam element based framework (open source)
Visiting Researcher Scholar @ FIP Industriale, Padova, Italy (Sep 2019 - Feb 2020)
- Responsible for designing and implementing laboratory testing to assess novel isolator performance
- Open-source code used to reproduce the tests and improve quality and validity of results
- Designed base isolation systems for retrofitting existing structures
Postgraduated Fellow @ EPhysLab, University of Vigo, Spain (June 2018 - June 2019)
- Part-time contract for Numerical modeling of wave energy converters (WECs)
- Control, optimization, and survivability analyses of a PTO system developed by Sandia National Laboratories (US)
Erasmus+ @ FLANDERS HYDRAULICS RESEARCH, Belgium (Mar - Aug 2017 & Feb - Mar 2018)
- Development and validation of a coupling technique of the Lagrangian model DualSPHysics with the NSLW model SWASH for coastal engineering applications
- Visited the EPhysLab (Spain) to collaborate with the code developer team
- Performed a second stage of two months to complement previous research, applying the technique to a dike wall
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Systems
University of Salerno, Italy (Nov 2018 - June 2022)
Thesis: “Seismic Protection of Adjustable Pallet Racking Structures with Isolation Systems” (With European mention)
M.Sc. in Building Engineering and Architecture (with highest honors)
University of Salerno, Italy (May 2018)
Specialization in Seismic Design and Structural Optimization