Cristina Riso

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. I am affiliated with the Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (ASD) area and the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE).

My Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity Research Laboratory studies aeroelastic phenomena in fixed-wing and vertical lift air vehicles using novel computational models and methods. We aim to advance the fundamental understanding of the aeroelastic physics of new vehicle configurations and support their design. 

I am a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), serving on its Structural Dynamics Technical Committee and as the Structural Dynamics Chair for the AIAA SciTech Forum. I have been a member of the AIAA Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop since 2019 and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft since 2025. I am also a Member of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS), serving on its Dynamics Technical Committee, and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Before joining Georgia Tech, I was a Research Fellow in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I earned my BS, MS, and PhD from Sapienza University of Rome, where my doctoral studies were supported by a Graduate Research Fellowship.