Julio-Cesar De Luca, Phd Email & Phone Number

Nantes, Fr

Nantes - France

R&D European Technical Officer at R&D direction for European projects (2017 to present): • Have been networking with industries and research centres across Europe, with a growth over 15% per year, with rich EU portfolio of contacts. • Leveraged over +9.2M€ in EU grants in manufacturing and renewable energy in the programmes H2020 and Horizon Europe. • Represents the direction of research giving technical support and lobbying at European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) in Brussels, to establish EU R&D roadmap in manufacturing, with over 3 trips to Brussels and more than 6 online meetings per year. • Transversally lead engineers and experts of 5 R&D teams to prepare over 18 European R&D project tenders per year in the fields of: Robotics, composites, additive manufacturing, monitoring & control, and simulation.Research Team Leader (2014-2022): • Spearheaded the formation and coaching of a 12-member team of experts in monitoring of manufacturing processes and structures for predictive analysis and maintenance. • Implemented a state-of-the-art mechanical testing facility worth over 1.3M€, which generates averaged incomes over 200k€ annually. • Defined team objectives and roadmap aligned with the French market demands, with clients from aerospace, automotive, naval, and renewable energy sectors.

France

• Cross-function managed the development of customer comfort requirements of the new Twingo (Renault) and SMART (Daimler) vehicles in a joint-venture with Daimler (cross management of French and German teams). Managing and negotianting inter-requirements trade-offs and systems price/quality ratio to secure car's quality and profitability.• Led NVH Development team on vehicle refinement and part cost/quality optimisation, securing econmy of few euros per manufactured car, representing at large scale few million Euros in profit for the company.• Looked after all thermal benchmark, customer requirements, V-cycle deploiement and validation tests (Wind tunnel and site testing in Spain-summer and Kiruna-winter), generating two innovation patents (one of them being used in Twingo and Smart cars) and colaborated on the cost/quality optmisation of these new cars. • Led the thermal confort deploiement and validation to customer requirements of the first Renault's EV car (FLUENCE) and patented an innovative 'heat pump' system for the ZOE-EV car.• Benchmarked the Indian automotive market and established the thermal customer requirements for the thermal comfort of a future low-cost. • Optimised the cost to performance ratio of the thermal system (HVAC, in-cabin thermal signature, etc) and still achieving the customer product quality. • Led R&D projects and implemented new test procedures in ride comfort and vehicle acoustics, and deployed them at Renault worldwide. This is allowing more robust test and validation results and is shortening the time to product by estimated 30% in road-comfort.

Enstone - Angleterre

R&D Project Manager - RENAULT F1 TEAM – England • Managed the development of a new gearbox test facility from inception to completion: prepared technical specification, led internal and external development teams and negotiated the contract/budget with suppliers achieving a cost cut of about 15% in a test facility of about 1 million Euros. This test facility allowed the F1 Team to improve transmissions reliability and race strategies, shortening time to performance, saving in track testing and helped the team to be champion in 2005 and 2006. • Implemented vibration and dynamic analysis techniques, which have been used to improve the F1 car’s performance and reliability. These dynamic testing methods allowed the team to implement the innovative dynamic damper in F1 in 2005, which was essential for the team’s exceptional achievements in the championships 2005 and 2006. Tackled a last minute chassis issue after short dynamic test and proposed a solution to increase full chassis bending stiffness, which allowed Jarno Trulli to gain 1s per lap and ultimately win the Monaco GP in 2004, worth to the team about 10 million Euros.• Designed and built up a special load cell device for measuring the axial force in the clutch assembly of the F1 car. This measuring device allowed performing a very complicated clutching load measurement allowing the improvement of the launch control of Renault’s F1 car from 2004, which allowed the team to achieve exceptional results from 2004 to 2006, earning the team multi-million Euros.

Brazil

Responsible for NVH development, analysis and refinement of drivelines and gearboxes at Eaton Corp Latin America. Main achievements: dynamic analysis of gearboxes and drivelines, tackling an issue of the bending of a 4x4 powertrain at late project stage, implementation of the B&K PULSE system (vibration and noise analysis), gear noise analysis, which helped on the reduction of noise in small cars.

Curitiba Area, Brazil

I was responsible for R&D projects in noise, vibration and testing. I performed modal analysis of hydroelectric turbines to support stress relief using heat/vibration, managed a project for noise reduction of high voltage transformers and automated the residual stress test and analysis of turbine blades. I participated on the commissioning of the hydroelectric power plant of Salto Caxias/Brazil (1.2GW), performing field testing of residual stress analysis of some of its turbine blades for commissioning the power plant (http://www.power-technology.com/projects/salto/).

Florianópolis Area, Brazil

R&D Team Manager: CERTI, Brazil (www.certi.org.br) Centre of Technology, Innovation and Legal Metrology • Developed two non-contact displacement measurement systems to prototype level (budget > 300k US). • Lectured courses in Metrology, Instrumentation, Stress analysis, etc. to professionals of all levels. • Performed numerous field testing/analysis and developed measurement systems for industrial quality control.

Florianópolis Area, Brazil

During my studies at the course of mechanical engineering I got a scholarship to work in R&D at the Laboratory of Metrology of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, on the basis of 20h per week.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Noise And Vibration, Doctor

Activities and Societies: Development of a dynamic model for piston slap forces determination.My PhD project was awarded the European.

Marketing Certification, Business Administration And Management, General

Master'S Degree, Metrology And Instrumentation

Activities and Societies: MSc degree in mechanical engineering, field of Metrology and Instrumentation. From May/89 to Dec/89 I undertook.

Trainning Course - 7 Months, Metrology And Standards Of Measurement, Expert In Metrology

Activities and Societies: Jun-89/Dec-89 Training course in Metrology and Standards of Measurement: National Research Laboratory.

Bachelor'S Degree, Metrology, A With Honour

Activities and Societies: Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, field of Metrology, Instrumentation and Automation.