Alessandro ‘Alex’ Carrella has a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Naples (Italy) and was awarded a PhD
in Structural Dynamics at the ISVR (University of Southampton, UK). He was a lecturer in Structural Dynamic at the Dept of
Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol when he left academia to join LMS (now Siemens) as Product Manager for
Dynamic Environmental Test solutions first and then as manager of Aerospace&Defense Business development. Today he runs
his own vibration and acoustic consultancy firm and is the the managing director of the international operations at MSI-DFAT. Alex is an active member of the international space testing community and serves on technical and managing boards of major conferences. To complete his management and business training, he is finishing his Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA) at the School of Management of the Universite Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (UCL).