Emanuele Pulvirenti

Email: ep15603@bristol.ac.uk

Supervisors: Jonathan Rossiter, Helmut Hauser, Dr Richard Suphapol Diteesawat

PhD Project Title: A Soft Exosuit for Hypogravity Adaptation

Research Group: Soft Robotics

Biography

As an aspiring spaceman since my early days, every choice I made up until now had the objective of taking me a step further towards outer space. After three years as a cadet in a military school in Italy, I decided to pursue my interest in engineering and study Aerospace Engineering in Bristol, graduating in the summer of 2019 with a Master's degree in Space Systems Design. During a little detour towards renewable energies, I joined Jaguar Land Rover as a Development Engineer working on their new line of full electric vehicles. While working there, I decided to pursue my true passion and joined FARSCOPE with the objective of applying robotics to aid human space exploration.

What pushes me is probably best described in Carl Sagan's words: "For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood