Sergio Pellegrino

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Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist; Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace Leadership Chair, Executive Officer for Aerospace; Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project

Laurea, University of Naples, 1982; Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1986. Professor, Caltech, 2007-2010; Kresa Professor, 2010-; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, 2009-; Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project, 2016-; Booth and Kresa Leadership Chair, 2026-; Executive Officer, 2026-; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, 2025-26.

Research interests: structural mechanics, lightweight structures, novel concepts for deployable and adaptive space structures, packaging concepts, deployment kinematics and dynamics, analysis and model verification studies, bistable and multistable structures, ultra-thin composite materials, constitutive models, including time-dependent behavior and failure

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Professor Pellegrino's research focuses on lightweight structures and particularly on problems involving packaging, deployment, shape control and stability.