Luigi Perotti

Jonathan Gitzendanner developed his passion for aviation at an early age. In second grade, his Cub Scout pack had the chance to sleep aboard the USS Yorktown, a naval aircraft carrier in South Carolina. Just two years later, he discovered the field of aerospace engineering – a field he’s about to start a career in. […]

UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science assistant professors, Kenle Chen, Zhaomiao (Walter) Guo and Luigi Perotti, have been named 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award winners. The combined award total is an estimated $1.5 million. Recipients of this prestigious, early-faculty award exhibit the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and […]

The heart is a complex machine and understanding its mechanics from the microstructural level could unlock the secrets behind cardiac function and dysfunction. To better understand cardiac function, Assistant Professor Luigi Perotti plans to develop a multiscale and multiphysics model that can link the macroscopic motion of the heart with its causes at the cellular […]

As high profile launches like Artemis 1 have propelled public interest in space exploration, the stories that topped UCF’s Top 10 Research News list this year have reflected this renewed focus on reaching the moon and beyond. These were stories about innovative ways to build off-world settlements; prospecting for resources in understudied portions of the […]

Students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering won big at the Student Scholar Symposium, the main event of UCF’s Student Research Week. The event combines both the Graduate Research Forum and the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence into one week-long symposium that includes workshops and a poster competition. This year, several students from […]