DrStefano Galvan

Stefano Galvan is a Senior Research Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His interests are software engineering best practices, software architectures, software design and implementation, software reproducibility, software portability (with a particular emphasis on Linux), version control, CI/CD, and data management.

Stefano received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Verona (Italy). Starting from 2001, he has been working as an experienced computer scientist on challenging academic research projects, contributing as coordinator, lead software developer and system administrator. From 2009 to 2013, he worked in industry as IT manager and consultant, his main role being software developer for embedded systems.

In 2013 he joined the Tribology group at Imperial College. His work as a Research Fellow focuses on the management of European Projects in collaboration with the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab (ACTIVE until 2015 and EDEN2020 until 2022). As an Advanced Research Fellow Stefano collaborated with the Non Destructive Evaluation group to design and develop graphical user interfaces for research software. More recently, with the Dynamics group, he worked on the assessment of the Vibration University Technology Centre software infrastructure while designing a maintainable CI/CD ad-hoc solution for software development and testing.