Riccardo Bevilacqua

Title
Interim Vice Provost and Professor
Email
Department
Aerospace Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering
Riccardo Bevilacqua

Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). He also serves as interim vice provost for academic affairs and Italian ambassador for the university. He holds a M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering (2002, cum laude), and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (2007), both from the University of Rome, "Sapienza", Italy. Dr. Bevilacqua is the recipient of two Young Investigator Awards, from AFOSR (2012) and ONR (2013), of the 2014 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award from the Aerospace Controls and Guidance Systems Committee, and of multiple Air Force Summer Fellowships. His research interests focus on spacecraft formation flight, space robotics and warheads/spacecraft fragment fly-out predictions. He has authored and co-authored more than 170 journal and conference publications on the topics. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and IAA Member. He is the founder and chair of the IAA conference on Space Situational Awareness.    

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Methods and Models, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
  • M. - Master in Aerospace Engineering, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
  • B. - Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
  • AE 800: Dissertation
  • AE 700: Thesis
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