- Born in Rome on 18/04/1973.
- July 2017: qualified as Full Professor in Engineering and Safety of Excavations (IND-IND/28) and Geotechnical Engineering(ICAR/07)
- Member of the editorial board of the international journals Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (from 2013), Geoenvironmental Disasters (from 2014) e Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (from 2017)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Associate Professor at the School od
Engineering and Architecture of the University of
Bologna from 15st September 2014.
- Member of the PhD School in
Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of
the Universityof Bologna
LECTURER
- Lecturer at the Engineering Faculty of
the University of Bologna from 1st October
2005.
- Member of the PhD School in
Civil Engineering and Architecture - Geoengineering, Georesources
and Geotechnical Engineering - of the Universityof
Bologna
POST-DOC
- Research Associate at the Department of
Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of the University of
Rome La Sapienza from November 2002 to September
2005.
- Teaching Assistant for the courses of
Rock Mechanics and Underground Constructions held
by Prof. Ribacchi at the Engineering Faculty of the University of
Rome La Sapienza until September 2005.
- Lectures for the course Underground
Constructions held by Prof. Lembo-Fazio at the University
in 2003.
- Term contract as Lecturer for the course
of Geotechnics and Foundations at the Faculty of
Architecture of the University of Roma LaSapienza for
the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.
- Research fellowship at the Institute for
Geo-engineering and Environmental Geology of the National Research
Council in 2004.
- Member of the Master's Course on Risk
Evaluation in relation to Cultural heritage organized by
Consorzio Civita in 2004.
- Research fellowship from the National
Research Council (Short-term mobility 2005) for
performing laboratory tests at the Research Centre on Landslide of
Kyoto University.
- Italian Official Delegate (selected by the
Italian Geotechnical Association) at the 3rd International
Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference (Osaka, September
2005).
PH.D.
- Winner of the competition for a Ph.D.
position at the Ph.D. School in Geotechnical Engineering – XIV
cycle - (consortium between the University of Rome La
Sapienza, University of Napoli Federico II e University
Napoli II) in June 1999.
- Teaching Assistant for the courses of
Rock Mechanics and Underground Constructions held
by Prof. Ribacchi at the Engineering Faculty of the University of
Rome La Sapienza.
- Member of the Master's Course on
Stabilization and Conservation of Historic Towns in Unstable
Areas on behalf of the Umbria Region from 2000.
- Visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the
Institute for Strength of Materials at the Vienna University of
Technology between November 2000 and December 2001.
- Affilation at the Professional
Association Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di
Roma since February 2003.
- Ph.D. in Geotechnical
Engineering (March 2003) discussing a thesis titled "Deep
tunnels in weak rock-masses: analysis of the ground-shotcrete
interaction", tuthor: Prof. Ribacchi.
POST-LAUREAM
- Chartered Engineer since 1998.
- Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant in
the course of Geotechnics at the University Roma
Tre between November 1998 and October 1999.
LAUREA
- University Degree in Environmental
Engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza,
110/110 cum laude, discussing a thesis titled “Previsione della
caduta di blocchi da versanti rocciosi e metodi di protezione",
tutor: Prof. Ribacchi (22 July 1998).
