Federico Benazzo Receives AIAA Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award
January 16, 2026
Federico Benazzo received the 2026 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award for the paper AIAA-2026-1040 Deployable Composite Toroid Holding a Circular Membrane, co-authored with George Popov, Juan Mejia-Ariza, and Sergio Pellegrino.
This award is given to the highest scoring student paper submitted to any of the ten technical committees within the AIAA Aerospace Design and Structures Group. The paper was presented at the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando, FL.
