Discover Mechanical Engineering - Meet the Section Editors
March 2022
Naiping Gao
Prof Gao Naiping (this opens in a new tab) is the associate dean of the school of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University. He obtained his BSc in 2000, MSc in 2003 in Thermal Engineering from Tongji University, and PhD in Building Services Engineering in 2007 from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He worked as a post-doctor research fellow in the same department, then joined Tongji University in 2008 as an associate professor, and was promoted to professor in 2013.
He has a wide range of research interests in the area of building ventilation and airborne transmission. He has completed 50 research projects in the past ten years, published more than 170 academic papers, and was a highly-cited scholar in the field of built environment for six consecutive years. He serves as peer reviewers for thirty international journals.
Andreas Öchsner
Andreas Öchsner (this opens in a new tab) is a Full Professor of Lightweight Design and Structural Simulation at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. After completing his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart (1997), he served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1997 to 2003 while pursuing his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr.-Ing.) degree. From 2003 to 2006, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Cellular Metals Group affiliated with the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He spent seven years (2007–2013) as a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics, Technical University of Malaysia, where he was also Head of the Advanced Materials and Structure Lab. From 2014 to 2017 he was a Full Professor at the School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia and Leader of the Mechanical Engineering Program (Head of Discipline and Program Director).
Paulo A. F. Martins
Paulo Martins (this opens in a new tab) is professor of manufacturing at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 1991, the habilitation in mechanical engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 1999 and the degree of doctor technices honoris causa from the Technical University of Denmark in 2018.
He is Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), member of the Standing Advisory Board of ICTP – The International Conference on Technology of Plasticity and received The (JSTP) Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity International Prize for R&D in Precision Forging in 2021.
He was president of the scientific board of Instituto Superior Técnico from 2009 to 2012 and president of the school council of Instituto Superior Técnico from 2017 to 2020.
His research interests are focused on metal forming and joining by forming technologies and he is co‐author of six books, several international patents and more than 400 papers in international journals and conferences.
Stijn Derammelaere
In the industry, constructors of cars, textile machines, agricultural machines, metal forming machines, 3D printers, production lines and logistics companies all operate in a competitive international market. On the other hand, breakthroughs in science often result in increasing demands for novel machines for medical, aerospace, … applications. Finally, there is a worldwide trend towards more autonomous systems. All these put increasing pressure on both the design of machines and their automation. To meet these high demands, advances in optimisation, (motion) control engineering, instrumentation (i.e. vision techniques), novel design paradigms, embedded systems, robotics, hydraulics and pneumatics are required. Discover Mechanical Engineering welcomes novel contributions in those fields. Thanks to the rapid publication process of this journal, your articles can contribute to the increased performance or reduced cost and energy usage of machines and mechanisms.
Stijn Derammelaere (this opens in a new tab) was born in Kortrijk, Belgium, in 1984. He received the Master degree in automation from the Technical University College of West-Flanders, Belgium, in 2006. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2013 at Ghent University, where he initiated research concerning control engineering, co-design of control and mechatronic systems and the motion control of fractional horsepower machines. He continues this research (https://youtu.be/75TqLW2B-JQ) since 2017 at the University of Antwerp where he is an associate professor in mechatronics since 2022. His expertise includes co-design, motion control and optimisation of mechatronic systems. By 2022 associate professor Derammelaere coordinated over 10 projects and is the co-author of 57 articles included in de Web of Science.