Research Interests:

• Aero-structural optimization for the design of multi-MW wind turbine rotor blades
• Design, development and testing of single and multiple interacting aero-servo-elastic wind tunnel models of wind turbines

Curriculum Vitae:

• 2008 :graduated in  Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• 2013: Ph.D. in Rotary Wing Aircraft at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• 2013-Present: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Chair of Wind Energy, TUM

Publications:

• C.L. Bottasso, A. Croce, F. Campagnolo, `Multi-Disciplinary Constrained Optimization of Wind Turbines', Multibody System Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s11044-011-9271-x, 2011.
• C.L. Bottasso, F. Campagnolo, C. Tibaldi, `Optimization-Based Study of Bend-Twist Coupled Rotor Blades for Passive and Integrated Passive/Active Load Alleviation', Wind Energy, doi:10.1002/we.1543, 2012
• C. Kim, K. Kim, H. Kim, I. Paek, N. Yoo, Y. Nam, F. Campagnolo, C.L. Bottasso, `A Method to Estimate Bending Moments Acting on a Wind Turbine Blade Specimen using FBG Sensors', International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, 13:1247{1250, doi:10.1007/s12541-012-0166-4, 2012.
• C.L. Bottasso, F. Campagnolo, A. Croce, C. Tibaldi, `Fatigue Damage Mitigation by the Integration of Active and Passive Load Control Techniques on Wind Turbines', Wind Energy and the Impact of Turbulence on the Conversion Process, J. Peinke and S. Ivanell, Eds., Springer, accepted, to appear, 2013.
• C.L. Bottasso, F. Campagnolo, A. Croce, S. Dilli, F. Gualdoni, M.B. Nielsen, `Structural Optimization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades by Multi-Level Sectional/Multibody/3DFEM Analysis', Multibody System Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s11044-013-9394-3, 2013.
• C.L. Bottasso, F. Campagnolo, V.  Petrović . ‘Wind tunnel testing of scaled wind turbine models: beyond aerodynamics’. Renewable Energy, under review, 2013.