Leonardo Monteiro Mazzariol

Born in São Paulo on January 10, 1985, he holds a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP), completed in 2007. He began his career in the automotive industry, working at Continental AG in the area of structural analysis and optimization for mass reduction. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted Scientific Initiation research (2004/05) and developed his thesis on modeling production systems based on discrete events.Upon returning to the university, he pursued a masters degree, completed in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcílio Alves, focusing on similarity laws applied to impacts. He also participated in research projects, such as studies on ship collisions (FINEP) and material characterization and triaxiality effects (CAPES/DAAD), with the Group of Solid Mechanics and Structural Impact (GMSIE-USP). In addition, he engaged in multidisciplinary activities with Dentistry students and various other research projects.He completed his Ph.D. in 2017, developing similarity laws for impact events using scaled models made from different materials, evaluated theoretically, numerically, and experimentally.Conducted postdoctoral research on similarity laws and models representing space structures, such as Space Elevators and Space Tethers, in reduced scale at PPGEM-UFABC. He was a Visiting Professor in the Instrumentation, Automation, and Robotics Engineering Department at UFABC/CECS from 2019-2021.He currently works as a numerical simulation engineer for vehicle safety at General Motors South America. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)