Biography
Gennaro Senatore is the Head of Research in Adaptive Structural Systems at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK), University of Stuttgart. Previously, he held research leadership roles at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), University College London, and Expedition Engineering in London. He has led interdisciplinary teams, supervised doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and managed research initiatives funded by major agencies across Europe (DFG, SNSF, EPSRC) and industry partners, overseeing both human and financial resources. He has authored and coordinated multi-partner grants and fostered strategic collaborations across academia, practice, and industry. He also serves on editorial boards and regularly evaluates national and international research outputs.

His research integrates computational design synthesis, structural optimization, and control systems engineering to create ultra-lightweight, low-carbon, resilient, and Adaptive Structural Systems — pioneering novel methods and solutions for the built environment. He has advanced innovative teaching practices through courses on ultra-lightweight construction, component reuse, and parametric and algorithmic modelling. To broaden accessibility to structural design and optimization, he developed PushMePullMe, an interactive educational tool that combines game mechanics with numerical methods to support intuitive understanding of structural behavior.

In practice, he has contributed to high-profile international projects through advanced computational workflows for the conceptual design of complex structural systems. As part of his commitment to knowledge transfer and methodological innovation, he served as one of the twelve Lead Experts appointed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre to develop the New European Bauhaus Self-assessment Method, an integrated, policy-aligned framework that harmonizes performance metrics across environmental, functional, aesthetic, technological, social, governance, and economic dimensions.

Habilitation and Academic Qualification
Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Adaptive Structural Systems and Computational Structural Mechanics (W3, Full Professor), University of Stuttgart, since August 2025.
Italian National Scientific Qualification, in Structural Mechanics (Associate Professor), since June 2022.

Licensure and Accreditation
Registered Professional Engineer (Ingegnere, Sezione A) in Civil, Environmental, Industrial, and Information Engineering sectors, since 2006. Qualified for the design, supervision, consultancy, and certification of complex engineering works with full professional and legal responsibility under Italian law.

Expertise
Gennaro Senatore is a leading expert in developing computational design workflows that enable exploration and performance-driven optimization of structural form and behavior for conceptual design. Collaboration inquiries for project-based consultancy can be sent to gennarosenatore@gmail.com.

Skills
Structural Mechanics, Computational Design Synthesis, Structural and Topology Optimization
Integrated Structure-Control Design, Adaptive Structural Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems
Sustainable Design and Construction, Design Through Reuse
Programming (MATLAB, Python, LabView, C#, Java)