Sebastiano Gaiardelli

Sebastiano Gaiardelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich, where he works at the Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems in Production Engineering. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Verona with the thesis “Dynamo: A Framework to Verify, Optimize and Reconfigure Flexible Manufacturing Systems”, after MSc and BSc studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Verona.

His research focuses on making cyber-physical production systems adaptable without losing a rigorous model of their constraints and behaviour. He has worked on production scheduling, reconfiguration and optimisation; hierarchical and graph-based models of manufacturing processes; Model-Based Systems Engineering; service-oriented manufacturing architectures; and the integration of engineering models with ontologies. In DeFacto, this work contributed to design-automation techniques for flexible smart factories.

Sebastiano has also worked on industrial monitoring, anomaly detection and digital-twin infrastructure, including the GLACIER and Frost research lines. These activities connect executable models of production equipment with data services and control software so that alternative configurations can be analysed and tested before changes reach the plant. He is also a co-founder and scientific advisor of FACTORYAL S.r.l., a University of Verona spin-off focused on factory-automation software.