LOREDANA SANTO – PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

SUNRISE-VG01-SHARCS, SHApe Recovery of Composite Structures, Mission Virtute 1, first Sub-orbital Research Mission with Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo,  June 29, 2023 – Principal investigator of the payload.

SUNRISE-VG02-TESIS, TESting In Space, Mission Virtute 1, first Sub-orbital Research Mission with Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, June 29, 2023 – Principal investigator of the payload

 Materials in Open Space (MinOS) – Principal Investigator – and sample collaborator in the MISSE-9. MISSE-10, MISSE 12 and MISSE 13 Polymers and Composites Experiment (PCE) in collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center (2018-2022).

 Ribes_Foam2, BION-M1 Russian Mission, Soyuz-2 launch vehicle, April 20, 2013 – Principal Investigator of the experiment in microgravity.

IFOAM, Shuttle Mission STS 134, May 22, 2011, in cooperation with Italian Space Agency (ASI), NASA and Italian Air Force – Principal Investigator of the Experiment

Member of the Materials Space Environmental Survivability working group of ESA (2021-)

Chair of the Workshop “Materials in the Space Environment”, May 17, 2016, Italian Space Agency (ASI), with the sponsorship of ASI and European Space Agency (ESA) and participation of NASA.

Member of the International Advisory Committee and co-organizer of the Smart/Intelligent Materials & Processes symposium in the International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (THERMEC 2013), Las Vegas, USA, December 2013, in THERMEC 2018, Paris, July 8-13, 2018, Paris – FRANCE and THERMEC 2022 Vienna, July 2-7 2023.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Aerospace Summit 2020, Abu Dhabi March 17 – 19, 2020.

Organizer of the Symposium “Advanced Materials for Aerospace”, EUROMAT 2019, Stockholm, September 1-5, 2019.

Responsible for the Agreement on Academic Exchange between Joining and Welding Research Institute of Osaka University, Japan and University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Responsible for the Memorandum of Understanding between Samara National Research University (Russia) and University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Responsible for the General Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Collaboration between the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University Dunarea De Jos University of Galati, Romania.

Responsible for drawing up the General Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Collaboration between the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Institute of Precision Mechanic and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Responsible for the Bilateral Agreement between the Italian Air Force and University of Rome Tor Vergata for a collaboration on advanced training, applied research and experimentation in the field of aerospace and human space flight (2014-).

Expert of Skolkovo Foundation, Moscow, Russia, for the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster (2014-2018).

Plenary Speaker, Modtech 2023 Conference, Bucharest, June 15, 2023. Title of the presentation: Industry 4.0 & Sustainability: A multidisciplinary approach.

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Processing & Manufacting of Avanced Materials, Fabrication, Properties, Applications, Thermec 2023, Vienna, July 5, 2023. Title of the presentation: Smart materials after long-term exposure in space environment.

Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology International, Dubai, 22 June 2023. Title of the presentation: Advanced Materials  and Space Sustainability.

Invited speaker, Tokyo Tech – IFToMM Japan・Italy Joint Workshop 2023.  Tokyo, February 14, 2023. Title of the presentation: Space Sustainability, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Space Applications

Invited speaker and moderator, panel “The new face of manufacturing” in NextGen Leaders session at Global Aerospace Summit 2022, Abu Dhabi, May 24-26, 2022.

Invited speaker, UN/IAF 28th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio Economic Benefits: “Space Exploration – a source of inspiration, innovation and discovery”, Dubai, October 22-24, 2021. Title of the presentation: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Space Sustainability and Colonization.

Invited speaker, “Qatar University Annual Research Forum and Exhibition 2019”, Session III: Panel Discussion “Promoting Sustainable International Research Collaboration”, Doha 23-24 April 2019.

Invited lecture “Manufacturing of smart structures for space applications” at United Arab Emirates University of Al-Ain January 30, 2018.

Keynote “Shape Memory Polymer Composites in the Space Environment” at International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, THERMEC 2018, Paris, July 8-13, 2018, Paris – FRANCE.

Invited at United Nation/Russian Federation, Workshop on “Human Capacity-Building in Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Social and Economic Development”, Samara, Russian Federation 30 October-2 November 2017. Title of the Presentation: “Sustainability of the in-Space Manufacturing”.

Plenary keynote “Current Status and Future Perspectives of Shape Memory Polymer Composites for Aerospace Applications”, International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials (DRaF2016), Ischia, Naples, Italy, September 7-9, 2016.

Plenary lecture “The Recent Advances and Future Perspectives of Shape Memory Polymer Composites”, Innovative Manufacturing Engineering & Energy Conference, September 23-25, 2016, Chalkidiki, Greece.

Invited lecture about research activity at Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan, July 6, 2015.

Plenary keynote “Recent Developments in the Field of Shape Memory Polymer Foams and Composites” at Polymers Processing in Engineering – PPE 2015, September 23, 2015, Galati, Romania.

Plenary lecture “Shape memory composites for self-deployable structures in aerospace applications” at International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials, Ischia (NA), September 14-17, 2014.

Invited lecture “Production and Testing of Shape Memory Composites at ICCCI 2012 – International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, 3-5 October 2012, Kurashiki, Japan.

Plenary keynote “Italian Research on New Materials for Aerospace: Shape Memory Epoxy Foams”at International Conference ModTech 2012, 24-26 May 2012, Sinaia, Romania.

2021) Grant-European Space Agency, for the project ESA-SPAce DEbris Suppression

(2019) Grant La Sapienza University in ACCORDO ATTUATIVO n. 2019-28-HH.0, for “Research and development activity photonic solar propulsion”, between Italian space Agency (ASI) and DIAEE, La Sapienza University

(2016) Grant-European Space Agency, Utilization of facilities (Random positioning machine, RPM, and Large Diameter Centrifuge, LDG) for smart material testing

(2010) Grant, Italian Space Agency, for the development of the Experiment IFOAM, Shuttle Mission STS 134, May 22, 2011

Bellisario, D., Quadrini, F., Iorio, L., Santo, L., Zhang, Z., Li, X., Dong, H., Semitekolos, D., Konstantopoulos, G., Charitidis, C.A., Microscopic testing of carbon fiber laminates with shape memory epoxy interlayer (2022) Materials Today Communications, 32, art. no. 103854.

Santo L., Space sustainability, advanced materials and micro/nanotechnologies for future life in outer Space,  Emergent Materials, Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 237 – 240, 2022.

Quadrini, F., Iorio, L., Bellisario, D., Santo, L., Durability of Shape Memory Polymer Composite Laminates under Thermo Mechanical Cycling (2022) Journal of Composites Science, 6 (3), art. no. 91.

Quadrini, F., Iorio, L., Bellisario, D., Santo, L., Shape memory polymer composite unit with embedded heater (2021) Smart Materials and Structures, 30 (7), art. no. 075009.

Santoro, D., Bellisario, D., Quadrini, F., Santo, L., Anisogrid thermoplastic composite lattice structure by innovative out of autoclave process (2020) International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 109 (7 8), pp. 1941 1952.

Santo, L., Bellisario, D., Iorio, L., Quadrini, F., Shape memory composite structures for self deployable solar sails (2019) Astrodynamics, 3 (3), pp. 247 255.

Quadrini, F., Tedde, G.M., Santo, L., van Loon, J.J.W.A., So lid state foaming of epoxy resin under hypergravity and simulated microgravity (2018) Advances in Polymer Technology, 37 (7), pp. 2616 2624.

Santo, L., Quadrini, F., Ganga, P.L., Zolesi, V., Mission BION M1: Results of RIBES/FOAM2 experiment on shape memory polymer foams and composites (2015) Aerospace Science and Technology, 40, pp. 109 114.

Santo, L., Quadrini, F., Mascetti, G., Dolce, F., Zolesi, V., Mission STS 134: Results of shape memory foam experiment (2013) Acta Astronautica, 91, pp. 333 340.

Santo, L., Quadrini, F., Squeo, E.A., Dolce, F., Mascetti, G., Bertolotto, D., Villadei, W., Ganga, P.L., Zolesi, V., Behavior of shape memory epoxy foams in microgravity: Experimental results of STS 134 mission (2012) Microgravity Science and Technology, 24 (4), pp. 287 296.