Zürich Metropolitan Area
Senior aerospace engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in fatigue and damage tolerance of aeronautical structures, covering both rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft. I have built my career at the intersection of advanced structural analysis, experimental validation and EASA certification, with formal responsibility as Compliance Verification Engineer (CVE) for Fatigue & Damage Tolerance on CS-23 and CS-27 programs. Currently, I am Team Leader for Fatigue & Damage Tolerance on the AW09 single-turbine helicopter at Kopter Group (Leonardo Helicopters), supporting the EASA CS-27 certification through definition of F&DT methodologies, fatigue loads and spectra, bench testing and authority interface. My technical focus includes: • Aerospace fatigue and damage tolerance (Safe Life, Flaw Tolerant Safe-Life, Fail Safe, Damage Tolerant, MLP / SLP) • Flaw tolerant Safe-Life of rotorcraft components in presence of small defects • Fatigue loads and spectra for fixed wing and rotorcraft • Fatigue testing from specimens to full-scale components • Fracture mechanics, crack growth and maintenance planning • FEM-based, multiaxial and vibration fatigue I combine deep technical expertise with team leadership and a pragmatic, certification-oriented mindset, developed across aerospace, automotive and advanced mobility programs in Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy. I am currently open to selective consulting and contractor opportunities in aerospace and advanced air mobility, particularly in international and certification-driven environments.
Responsible for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance of the CS-27 Single-Engine AW09 Helicopter.
CVE for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance on Dornier 228 fleet, Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet, Bell UH-1D.
F&DT / stress analysis and validation on fuel tank surrounding structure of a business jet
Team Leader for F&DT Activities on CS-23 Turboprop SK-105 SKYLANDER Aircraft
• Fatigue and structural analyses of body, chassis and suspension systems. Fatigue of welded joints. • Fatigue Testing Activities on Body-In-White and Suspensions Systems. • Development of coupled FEM–Multibody methodologies for vehicle endurance simulation. • NVH analyses and structural optimization of vehicle body and suspension architectures. • Industrialization of vehicle dynamics assessment methods. Coupled Multibody-FEM. • Crash analysis.