Dr Edmondo Minisci
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
I have 25+ years of experience in the field of model based analysis and design optimisation of complex mechanical/aerospace systems/devices.
At the Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory (ICE-Lab), whithin the Aerospace Centre of Excellence.
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in working on design of aeronautical vehicles of any size, multi-fidelity methods, intelligent control, and engineering methods for sustainable agriculture and forestry.
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Area of Expertise
- Multi-Objective Optimisation
- Nature Inspired Optimisation Algorithms
- Uncertainty Treatment
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation Under Uncertainties
- MDOuU of Aerospace Transportation Systems and Renewable Energy Systems
- Trajectory and Shape Optimisation
- Meta-modelling Techniques
- Computational Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Multi-Fidelity Optimisation Approaches
- Engineering Design Optimisation
- Intelligent Control
Prize And Awards
- NATO STO “Panel Excellence” Award (2024)
- Recipient
- 2024
- Sir Arthur C Clarke Award for Space Achievement (Academic Study/Research)
- Recipient
- 1/6/2015
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Recipient
- 2004
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Publications
- A sensitivity study of the transonic aerodynamics of a strut-braced airframe
- Nagy P, Jones B, Minisci E, Fossati M
- The Aeronautical Journal (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2025.10026
- Automatic design of interpretable control laws through parametrized genetic programming with adjoint state method gradient evaluation
- Marchetti Francesco, Pietropolli Gloria, Camerota Verdù Federico Julian, Castelli Mauro, Minisci Edmondo
- Applied Soft Computing Journal Vol 159 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2024.111654
- Opensource machine learning metamodels for assessing blade performance impairment due to general leading edge degradation
- Castorrini A, Ortolani A, Minisci E, Campobasso M S
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2767 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052055
- Analogies between simple mechanical systems and electrohydraulic and electromechanical servomechanism
- Alimhillaj Parid, Minisci Edmondo, Dallavedova Matteo DL, Dorri Altin
- International Journal of Mechanics and Control Vol 25, pp. 45-52 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.69076/jomac.2024.0007
- A laboratory scale Foucault pendulum for the measurement of frame-dragging
- Cartmell Matthew P, Minisci Edmondo A
- Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume I Third International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference NODYCON Conference Proceedings Series, pp. 735-345 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50631-4_62
- A simplified hydraulic capacity-sensitive fluid dynamics numerical model for monitoring aerospace electro-hydraulic actuators
- Dalla Vedova Matteo DL, Alimhillaj Parid, Minisci Edmondo, Maggiore Paolo
- Proceedings of the Joint International Conference Joint International Conference Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, pp. 264-274 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48933-4_25
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Research Interests
Currently involved in projects regarding:
- design optimisation of high lift devices;
- multidisciplinary design optimisation under uncertainties of wind turbines and aerospace transportation systems;
- machine learning techniques for data analytics, meta-modelling, and intelligent control;
- aerospace tehcnologies and computational intelligence methods for sustainable development, especially precision agriculture and forest management.
Professional Activities
- Contributions on Reliability to Recondition the Maintenance Plan and the Design of Systems by Using Evolutionary Algorithms
- Examiner
- 6/2022
- Characterization and Capture of Space Debris Objects Using Domain Ontology and Optimal Control
- Examiner
- 3/2022
- A Consideration of Geometry in Very-Low Earth Orbit Satellites
- Examiner
- 4/2021
- International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications
- Chair
- 17/11/2020
- STARDUST-R GLOBAL VIRTUAL WORKSHOP I
- Organiser
- 2020
- 5th European Optimisation in Space Engineering Workshop
- Organiser
- 21/11/2019
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Downie, Jenna
- Cartmell, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Downie, Jenna (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Symbolic Computation for Differential Equation Based Systems
- Cartmell, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Wynne, Bradley (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- EPSRC IAA: Uncertainty Quantification of Novel Aeroelastic Systems using Advanced Composite Materials
- Yuan, Jie (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Advanced Natural Language Models for Enhanced Knowledge Management in Satellite Communications | Darm, Paul
- Riccardi, Annalisa (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Darm, Paul (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2025
- Optimisation for energy efficiency
- Minisci, Edmondo (Principal Investigator)
- Short course within the framework of the Scientific School on Energy Efficient Buildings. University of Cagliari.
- 13-Jan-2021 - 18-Jan-2021
- A Distributed Ledger approach to MBSE
- Riccardi, Annalisa (Principal Investigator) Arulselvan, Ashwin (Co-investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator)
- 09-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Edmondo
Minisci
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: edmondo.minisci@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5059