Emanuele Zappa

Biography

Emanuele Zappa (M’10, SM’21) received the Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2002. In 2001, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as a Researcher, where he is currently a full professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurements with the School of Industrial and Information Engineering.

His research interests are mainly in the field of measurements, with a focus on vision-based techniques: digital image correlation, 3-D structured light scanning, and stereoscopy. Contributes to these research topics cover: the measuring techniques development, the corresponding applications in complex and hostile environments, as well as the qualification and reduction of the measuring uncertainty in dynamic applications. The 3D vision-based systems developed and qualified are applied also in a wide variety of other research themes, including structure dynamics analysis, helicopter blades tracking, face-based biometrics, fluid-structure interaction, 3D scanning and material characterization.