Team

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Alessandro Gambale

CEO of BuildWind SRL

Alessandro Gambale holds a Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from "La Sapienza" University, Rome (Italy). He worked as a research engineer for the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium), where he was involved in applied research projects dealing with microfluidics and environmental fluid dynamics. He later became a research and teaching assistant at UMONS University (Belgium), where he investigated advanced combustion techniques within a research program of the International Energy Agency. He co-founded BuildWind in 2018.

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Gabriele Mosca

CTO of BuildWind SRL

Gabriele Mosca is a space engineer. He holds a Master’s degree in Space Engineering and a Master for graduate students in Space Transportation System from "La Sapienza" University (Italy), and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and Technology from UMONS University (Belgium). He gained relevant professional experience in propulsion, combustion and fluid dynamics. His skills include the advanced use of 3D software, coding and process optimization. He co-founded BuildWind in 2018.

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Sampath Kumar Raghunathan Srikumar

R&D Engineer

Sampath Kumar holds a Master's degree from Delft University of Technology, Delft (Netherlands) as an Aerospace Engineer, obtained in October 2019. Specifically he specialized in aerodynamics during his Master's and gained academic experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) through projects involving turbulence modelling, multiphase flows. He worked as a research assistant in the wind energy department of TU Delft from June 2020 to April 2021 before joining BuildWind as a CFD Engineer in June 2021.

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Zakaria El Gharbaoui

Researcher, collaboration with VUB and ULB universities

Holding a Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology and a background in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Zakaria's work bridges urban physics, machine learning, and environmental data science in collaboration with BuildWind. His research focuses on developing a real-time map of street-level air quality and urban noise, accurate down to the building scale. By blending CFD wind flow modeling and urban acoustics with machine learning, he integrates data from low-cost sensors and participatory community sampling.

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Alessandro Parente

Scientific Advisor

Alessandro Parente is a professor at ULB University, Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Department (Brussels, Belgium). He holds a Master's Degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Pisa (Italy). Main research interests are in the fields of turbulent combustion, reduced-order models, numerical simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer, validation and uncertainty quantification in computational fluid dynamics. He is author of over 150 scientific papers.