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Paolo Feraboli is the Founder and Director of Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory (ACSL) in Seattle, Washington. He and his team are responsible for the development of new CFRP technologies and structure/chassis concepts for Lamborghini. Paolo is also the Founder and CEO of Gemini Composites, a design firm focused on product development, including design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing components for the automotive and numerous other industries. Since 2013 Dr. Feraboli is also a Research Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan. He is the recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Award for Composite Materials and the founding Chair of the CMH-17 Working Group on Crashworthiness.
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SUCCESS QUOTE
“If there is a will there is a way.”
CAREER & LIFE CHALLENGES
While working as a professor at the University of Washington Paolo tried to change the environment to more applied and less theoretical. This proved to be very, very difficult.
AH-HA MOMENTS
Early in his career he was exposed to carbon fiber and changed his entire career path to focus on that technology.
FIRST SPECIAL VEHICLE
Getting to drive a newly launched Lamborghini Murciélago from the factory to a vendor, two hours away.
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
If there is no beauty in something it is useless.
USEFUL RESOURCES
FAVORITE BOOKS
Anything by the Classics by Cisero and Seneca
PARTING WORDS OF ADVICE
Find something you like to do and turn that in to your career.
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