Meet our team
Our journey so far
Our journey began in 2015, when Marco Pietropaoli, Audrey Gaymann and Francesco Montomoli developed the software to ease engineers’ design frustrations, reduce trial and error, cut the time taken to make complex components, and optimise parts’ performance. All in a few clicks.
The industry was interested, and the awards kept on coming. So, in 2019, our business was officially born – as a London-based start-up with a team full of knowledge, experience, and passion.
Our Team
TOffeeAM is the acronym for Topology Optimisation For Fluids enginEEring and Additive Manufacturing.
Marco is a former EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at Imperial College London, where he completed his PhD in Fluid Dynamics. He holds an MSc in Mathematics and has expertise in AI software for additive manufacturing. He’s collaborated with NASA Langley, and is an MBA student at the Quantic Institute of Washington DC
Audrey is a former EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at Imperial College London, and an Amelia Earhart Fellow – awarded to just 35 women pursuing PhDs in aerospace-related engineering annually. She holds an MEng and PhD from Imperial College London Aeronautics, where she strengthened her expertise in robust analysis. She was also a visiting student at NASA.
Francesco is a professor at Imperial College London and a RAEng Enterprise Fellow. He holds a PhD in Energy Engineering and studied Management of Technology at Cambridge University. He’s spent much of his career at GE, and has collaborated with Rolls-Royce, NASA, Airbus and Criepi, becoming a leading expert in Uncertainty Quantification.
Ashley co-founded and grew telecommunications Software-as-a-Service market leader NewVoiceMedia for two decades. He shaped the company’s $350m sales in late 2018, and is now supporting the next generation of technology start-ups as an adviser.
Sakis has over 30 years of experience in CAD and CAM software sales. He graduated from Imperial College London, and now leads TOffeeAM’s sales activities.
Thomas is an aerospace engineer specialized in aerodynamics, heat transfer, and optimization. He holds an M.Eng in Aeronautical Engineering, an M.Res in Fluid Dynamics, and is nearing completion of his PhD in aerodynamics, all from Imperial College London. He has previously worked at or collaborated with Rolls-Royce, the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Gravity Engineering, and the European Space Agency.
Stefano obtained a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from “Politecnico di Torino”, and a Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering from “Universita’ di Napoli Federico II”. Before joining TOffeeAM, Stefano carried out an industrial placement at GE Avio in Turin.
Nicholas Raske is a graduate of the University of Leeds where he studied Aerospace Engineering and later completed his PhD. A research engineer with a decade of experience solving mathematical problems in the aerospace and bioengineering sectors. Extensive use of large commercial and open source software to build non-linear models to predict the behaviour of materials and devices. Experience augmenting these software packages with custom code to address novel problems.
Faidon holds a Master of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering and has completed a Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence, both at Imperial College London. Faidon has previously worked in the Future Programmes Engineering department at Rolls-Royce designing jet engines for the next generation of aircraft, specialising in thermodynamic modelling.
Antonio holds a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on structures.
He has experience in Finite Element Modelling and Analysis of both metallic and composite materials, Structural Optimization and Additive Manufacturing.
After a first experience working as a Consultant CAE Engineer, he joined the ToffeeAM team.
Ruben holds an MSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics from Imperial College London, modelling, simulation and control of multiphase and multi-physics flow problems.
Following his PhD studies, he undertook a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship on data-driven methods for the control of chaotic systems.
Senthan is an IET accredited mechanical engineer, having completed his studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He has previous experience in the field of Sales Engineering, having worked with clients from Tier 1 and blue-chip companies, in various industries.
With more than 8 years of customer service and sales experience, Senthan joined the team to bring his expertise to ToffeeAM’s business development and customer relations.
Alessandro Canova holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering obtained at the University of Padua and he is finishing a second MSc in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London.
Throughout these years, he has specialized in fluid dynamics with particular attention to numerical simulations, turbulence modelling, and flow management.
Alexandros Apostolopoulos obtained his MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College London and BSc from University of Bath
His main interest is in AI and advanced computing more specifically his dissertation was on using NLP to tag legal contracts and hopes to publish it.
Alex is not new TOffeeAM and we are happy to have him back
Before joining TOffeeAM, Ioannis was a PhD candidate in Computational Nuclear Physics at the Applied Modelling and Computation Group in Imperial College London. He holds a a Bachelors in Physics and a Masters in Material Science and Nuclear Engineering.
Before joining TOffeeAM, Rhys obtained a MSc in Scientific and Data Intensive Computing at UCL and a Bachelor degree in Physics
Hold a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario and a MSc in Advanced Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London
Before joining TOffeeAM, Andre had several roles in multiple companies around the globe. He holds degrees in Sales Management, Business Administration and Management from Universidade Candido Mentes and FGV
Omni Stack Engineer
Before coming to ToffeeAM, Alex worked as a web app developer at Oxford University, and achieved both an MSc in Computing and a PhD in Computational Social Dynamics from Imperial College London, with a specialty in simulation of social dynamics in networks. Whilst studying for their PhD, they were a teaching scholar and taught software development practices, and they have brought their skills and knowledge with them to our software engineering team.
Senior Software Engineer
Marzio has a degree from Sapienza University in Rome on Engineering Science
Before joining TOffeeAM he has been working in several roles as software engineer, cloud development and full stack engineer.
Senior Application Engineer
Before joining TOffeeAM, Dr Casari was an assistant professor at University of Ferrara.
Dr Casari obtained a PhD from University of Ferrara and it was a visiting student at Imperial College London and University of Oxford.
He is an expert in numerical simulations.