Alessio Mentani is Senior assistant professor (fixed-term) at DICAM Department of the University of Bologna since 2021.
Master degree in Building Engineering in 2010, he acquired a Doctoral degree in Geotechnical Engineering in 2015 at the University of Bologna under the main supervision of prof. Guido Gottardi and prof. Anna Giacomini and prof. Laura Govoni as co-supervisor. During the PhD years he is Visiting Fellow at the Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE) of the University of Newcastle (New South Wales, Australia) where he worked on a numerical investigation of the behaviour of low-energy rockfall barriers for cost-effective rockfall hazard mitigation. This research was also funded by the Australian Research Council’s Program (Pilot Grant G1400972; ARC Linkage Project LP0989965).
From 2015 to 2018 he is Research Fellow at the University of Bologna working with the research group of the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA, now INRAE) in Grenoble (France). He also supported the geotechnical instrumentation for a smart monitoring system of the Secchia river embankments through cooperating in the projects INFRASAFE (POR-FESR 2014-2020) and PRIN 2017.
In 2020 he was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) for the project SEAFLOWER (Strategies for the Exploitation of Anchors for FLoating Offshore Wind Energy Reaping). The project was submitted in the 2019 call of the MSCA Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2019) and is funded under the EU’s research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 (H2020, Grant Agreement n. 891826). SEAFLOWER is a 3-years project that officially started in March 2021 and involves the cooperation of the Centre for Offshore Foundations (COFS) of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth (WA) and of INRAE in Grenoble (France) where Alessio will spend 24 months for the so-called outgoing phase.
