Project Manager

4 years of experience as a project manager of R&D projects in a defence company. I'm looking for an offshore job to find new opportunities of professional growth.

MBDA Italia January 1st, 2009- PRESENT

Technical management of the following research projects financed by the European Defence Agency (EDA) or PNRM (National Military Research Plan):

• LEPAP: The study of new azido binders able to increase the specific impulse and combustion speed of solid composite propellants;
• FPNEM: The study of the chemical-physical properties of formulations of solid propellants containing azido binders;
• ANTARES: The study of the chemical-physical properties of formulations of solid propellants based on nano-structured aluminium
• HYSIDE: The study of metal hydrides for application as materials for storing hydrogen in its solid state;
• RSEM: The study of new formulations of PBX of reduced sensitivity.

Set-up of an experimental research chemistry laboratory for the synthesis and characterisation of energetic materials.

ENVICHECK February 1st, 2004- December 31th, 2008
Technical Manager
Head of the chemical analytic laboratory. Consultancy in the environmental sector.

University of Pisa January 1st, 2005- January 1st, 2008
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Production of new energetic binders for solid propellants.
Technical coordination of the European research project “Euclid-Cepa RTP-14.10”, financed by the European Defence Agency “Synthesis of nitrocompounds based on the triazine ring and linear azide-structures”. Synthesis of new energetic materials for application in aerospace propulsion technology. Educational support.
Guest researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology – Karlsruhe (Germany)for 6 months. First author of 7 international papers about energetic polymers.

September 1st, 1995- October 22th, 2002
University of Pisa, Department of Chemical Engineering- Pisa (Italy)
MSc Chemistry