Faculty

Sergio Pellegrino

Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aeronautics and Professor Civil Engineering, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist

Degrees and Appointments

Laurea, University of Naples, 1982; Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1986. Professor, Caltech, 2007-2010; Kresa Professor, 2010-. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, 2009-.

Research Overview

Professor Pellegrino's research focuses on lightweight structures and particularly on problems involving packaging, deployment, shape control and stability.

List of Research Areas

novel concepts for deployable and adaptive space structures; deployment kinematics and dynamics; analysis of lightweight structures and model verification studies; ultra-thin composite materials; bistable and multistable shells and space frames; deployment and stability of balloons

Research Centers

Keck Institute for Space Studies