ICOVP 2027 is pleased to announce the following plenary lecturers:

Daniil Yurchenko

University of Southampton – United Kingdom

Daniil Yurchenko is Associate Professor at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, United Kingdom. His research focuses on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, energy harvesting, and vibration mitigation, with applications spanning mechanical, biological, and energy systems. He has authored a research monograph and over 130 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, and has led numerous industry- and government-funded research projects, including grants from EPSRC and the Royal Society. He serves on the editorial boards of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vibration, and the International Journal of Dynamics and Control, and is a recipient of the Russian Young Scientists Award.

Erin Bachynski-Polić

Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway

Erin Bachynski-Polić is Professor of Marine Structures at the Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Her research focuses on offshore renewable energy, floating wind turbines, hydroelasticity, nonlinear wave loads, and marine dynamics, combining numerical and experimental approaches to structural response modelling and optimization. She holds a PhD from NTNU and degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan, and previously worked as a researcher at SINTEF Ocean. She is recognized as one of NTNU’s leading experts on offshore wind turbine design and has made extensive contributions to the development of numerical simulation tools and full-scale testing methods for floating structures.

Marcelo A. Savi

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE), Brazil

Marcelo A. Savi is Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE) and Coordinator of the Center for Nonlinear Mechanics. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, chaos, smart materials and structures, and control of complex systems, with applications spanning engineering, biomechanics, and energy systems. He has authored over 550 scientific publications and supervised more than 150 students. He is a CNPq Research Fellow (Level 1A) and has received several distinctions, including the FAPERJ Award for Outstanding Researcher in Engineering.

Stefano Lenci

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Stefano Lenci is Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, structural vibrations, dynamic integrity, stability, and the safety and reliability of mechanical and structural systems. He has made extensive contributions to the analysis of nonlinear phenomena in engineering structures through theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches.

 Susmita Naskar

University of Southampton – United Kingdom

Susmita Naskar is Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, where she leads research within the Engineered Materials and Structures Laboratory (EMSL). Her research focuses on multi-scale structural mechanics and multiphysics analysis of engineered materials, spanning the mechanics of metamaterials, deployable and reconfigurable structures, advanced composites, uncertainty quantification, and additive manufacturing. She completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, and held a postdoctoral position at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. At ICOVP 2027, she will present her work on Kirigami Metastructures for Multidirectional Vibration Energy Harvesting — a cutting-edge topic at the frontier of vibration engineering and smart materials.