Degrees

02/2003 Doctor of Philosophy, Swansea University, UK
09/1998 Master of Science, Imperial College, London, UK
10/1996 Laurea in Civil Engineering Suma Cum Laude, Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy

Positions

08/2006 –
Lecturer, Civil & Computational Engineering Centre, Swansea University

11/2003 – 07/2006
Postdoctor Research Assistant, Institute für Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

11/2003-12/2004
Member of the DFG Research Center MATHEON, Berlin, Germany

01/2003-06/2003
Finite Element Analyst for ARPA (Agency of Research and Advanced Production), Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy

11/2002-10/2003
Research Assistant, DAPS, Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy

Awards, Scholarships & Affiliations

01/2006-
Member of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering

04/2005-
Member of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM)

01/2000-
Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

01/2000-12/2005 
Member of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization

10/1998-11/1999
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar of the Rotary Foundation

10/1996-10/1997
EPSRC scholarship to undertake MSc at the Imperial College, London, UK

07/1997-
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of the Province of Naples, Italy.
Chartered Engineer

Publications

• C. Carstensen, S. Conti, A. Orlando, Mixed analytical-numerical relaxation in single-slip crystal plasticity. Cont. Mech. & Thermod. 20 (2008) 275-301
• C. Carstensen, Jun Hu, A. Orlando, Framework for the a posteriori error analysis of nonconforming finite elements. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 45 (2007) 68-82, MR2285845 
• C. Carstensen, S. Conti, A. Orlando, Effective computation of single-slip elastoplastic microstructures in finite strains. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on `Multiscale Materials Modeling', P. Gumbsch (Ed.), Freiburg, 2006, 81-85
• S. Bartels, C. Carstensen, S. Conti, K. Hackl, U. Hoppe, A. Orlando, Relaxation and the computation of effective energies and microstructures in solid mechanics. In A. Mielke (Ed): Analisys, Modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Problems, Springer, Berlin 2006, 199-226, MR2275163 
• C. Carstensen, K. Hackl, U. Hoppe, A. Orlando, Computational microstructures in phase transition solids and finite-strain elastoplasticity. GAMM-Mitteilungen 29 (2006) 215-246, MR2268767
• C. Carstensen, A. Orlando, J. Valdman, A convergent adaptive finite element method for the primal problem of elastoplasticity. Int. J. Num. Meth. Engrg. 67 (2006) 1851-1887, MR2260632 
• C. Carstensen, S. Conti, A. Orlando, On the numerical relaxation of single-slip plasticity in finite strains. PAMM 6 (2006) 469-470
• C. Carstensen, R. Klose, A. Orlando, Reliable and efficient equilibrated a posteriori FE error control in elasto- and elastoviscoplasticity with hardening. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 195 (2006) 2574-2598, MR2207482 
• C. Carstensen, A. Orlando, Convergence of adaptive finite elements methods in elastoplasticity. PAMM 5 (2005) 829-830
• C. Carstensen, A. Orlando, Adaptive finite element analysis in computational mechanics with guaranteed convergence. In `Adaptive Modeling and Simulation 2005',  Diez P. and Wiberg N.-E. (Eds), CIMNE, Barcelona (2005) 203-206.
• A. Orlando, D. Peric, Analysis of transfer procedures in elastoplasticity based on the error in the constitutive equations: Theory and numerical illustration. Int. J. Num. Meth. Engrg. 60 (2004) 1595-1631, MR2068928