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Professor Sergio Pellegrino's research focuses on lightweight structures, addressing problems related to packaging, deployment, shape control, and stability. He holds the position of Joyce Kent Kresa Professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he is involved in various research activities including the Space-Based Solar Power Project and serves as a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work encompasses structural mechanics, the development of novel deployable adaptive space structures, dynamics of deployment kinematics, as well as verification studies of analysis models. He specializes in bistable and multistable structures, ultra-thin composite materials, and time-dependent behavior concerning failure mechanisms. Professor Pellegrino teaches courses related to mechanics of structures and space engineering, contributing significantly to the academic community and advancing knowledge in aerospace civil engineering fields.
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