Summary
Rocco Bombardieri is an aircraft design engineer with a PhD in aeroelasticity and nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry-grade simulation. He currently designs stratospheric platform systems at CIRA after honing verification and scripting skills at Ansys, combining deep aerostructural optimization with practical software-driven workflows. His background includes teaching and postdoctoral research on unconventional aircraft, visiting positions across Europe and the US, and hands-on studies of flutter and limit cycle oscillations for joined-wing configurations. Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, he thrives in international, multidisciplinary teams and is drawn to problems that couple structural dynamics, control and design optimization. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious and unusually comfortable translating theoretical aeroelastic models into validated engineering tools.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 110/110, Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 110/110 at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish, French