Autor/-in: Golfman Yosif

Involved in R&D composites since 1960, Yosif Golfman. graduated from the Shipbuilding Technology Institute, Leningrad, USSR, and received his Ph. D. in 1969, working as a research composite engineer there afterward. He has worked investigating the influence of technological factors on the strength of fiberglass propellers and blades. In the United States, he worked as a research engineer at Ad Tech Systems Research in Dayton, Ohio, as a mechanical engineer at Foster-Miller, Inc. , Waltham, Massachusetts, and as a process mechanical engineer at Spectran, Inc. , in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. At Neo-Advent Technologies, Inc. , Littleton, Massachusetts, he worked on design, technology development, and manufacturing of lightweight nanoscale structures parts, based on ceramic, and thermoplastic, and liquid polymers, and carbon fiber textiles for aerospace applications and avionics.