Speakers BiomimicryNL Boost Festival - 23 October 2020
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Mauro Gallo - Biomimicry Lectoraat
Title Talk: Biomimicry is a bumpy road…but it is WORTH to smooth it! (this talk is in English) Abstract Biomimicry provides a multi-interdisciplinary approach capable of making our design more sustainable through Nature’s emulation. Many examples are available in literature demonstrating its effectiveness and potential. Nevertheless, many challenges impede the bio-inspired design to express and put into practice its full potential. In this presentation some of these challenges are presented and it will be shown how the biomimicry research group is addressing them in order to prevent that biomimicry will remain a domain of few skilled innovators. Moreover, some examples demonstrate how biomimicry, as design tool, can help agri-/horticulture becoming more innovative in the context of sustainable development. |
About Mauro:
Mauro Gallo was born in Naples (Italy). He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Naples – “Federico II”. At the same institution in 2007, he received a PhD in aerospace engineering. In 2008, his passion for research and education brought him to move abroad. He has worked as lecturer and researcher at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) from 2008 to 2011 and at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) from 2011 to 2016. At these institutions, Mauro has worked on and coordinated challenging and ambitious research projects in the field of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and energy conversion systems. Passionate about nature, in the recent years he has been steering his research interests towards topics blending engineering/technology and biology. Therefore, his appointment in September 2017 as “Biomimicry Lector” (Professor of Applied Sciences) at three Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (Aeres Wageningen, Inholland and Van Hall Larenstein) resulted as a natural fit at this stage of his professional career. Within this professorship, he will have the opportunity to question the nature not only for challenges in engineering and technology but also for social innovation.
Mauro Gallo was born in Naples (Italy). He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Naples – “Federico II”. At the same institution in 2007, he received a PhD in aerospace engineering. In 2008, his passion for research and education brought him to move abroad. He has worked as lecturer and researcher at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) from 2008 to 2011 and at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) from 2011 to 2016. At these institutions, Mauro has worked on and coordinated challenging and ambitious research projects in the field of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and energy conversion systems. Passionate about nature, in the recent years he has been steering his research interests towards topics blending engineering/technology and biology. Therefore, his appointment in September 2017 as “Biomimicry Lector” (Professor of Applied Sciences) at three Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (Aeres Wageningen, Inholland and Van Hall Larenstein) resulted as a natural fit at this stage of his professional career. Within this professorship, he will have the opportunity to question the nature not only for challenges in engineering and technology but also for social innovation.