Antonio Palermo

Antonio Palermo is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Bologna. He received his Civil Engineering degree from the University of Bologna (2011), a MSc in Earthquake Engineering from Imperial College (2013), UK, and a Ph.D in Structural Engineering from the University of Bologna (2017). In 2018, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology as a “Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow”. His research interests lie at the intersection between solid mechanics, applied physics, and civil engineering with the aim of designing novel materials and structures for elastic wave propagation control. He is the recipient of the “Claudio Bonivento Thesis Prize for Research and Technological Innovation- ISA” (2018) and the “Medaglia Leonardo Da Vinci-MIUR” (2019). Go to the Curriculum vitae