Farhad Zeighami

A. Positions

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland & Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (01/09/2025 - current).
• Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-a), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (20/12/2022 - 31/10/2025).
• ALMArie CURIE Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (01/11/2022 - 19/12/2022).
• Research Fellow in WATERGY project, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (01/06/2022 - 31/10/2022).
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (01/01/2021 - 31/05/2022).

B. Education

• Ph.D. in Structural and Environmental Health Monitoring, and Management (SEHM2) with honors, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy (awarded in 2021).
  Dissertation Thesis: "Resonant metamaterials for the control of Rayleigh waves".

• Visiting Ph.D. Research Student (31/01/2020 – 31/07/2020), Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Mechanics of Intelligent Structures department, Gdańsk, Poland.
  
  
• Master of Science in Civil Engineering (awarded in 2016), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  Dissertation Thesis: "Sub-wavelength resonators as seismic Rayleigh waves shield" in Advanced Structural Mechanics.
  
  
• Master of Engineering in Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) (awarded in 2016), MehrAlborz University (MAU), Tehran, Iran.
  

• Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering (awarded in 2011), Arak University, Arak, Iran.

C. Academic Projects

• REMoTIon: "REsonant Metamaterials for Train-Induced ground vibration mitigation" funded by the European Comission for the Global Fellowship under the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF call. The project includes 14 months at ETH-Zurich (outgoing phase), 6 months at KU LEUVEN (secondment), a 12 months of return period to the University of Bologna (host institute) [288k€] Role:Principle Investigator. (2025-2028)
• ELeMEnT: "Enhanced Locally resonant Metamaterials for Train-induced vibration mitigation", funded by Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MUR) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) [150k€] Role:Principle Investigator. (2022-2024)
• WATERGY: "Energy efficiency of the Integrated Water Service", funded by National Operational Programme on Research and Innovation. (2014-2020)
• H2020-SERA TA : “Resonant metamaterial-based earthquake risk mitigation of large-scale structures and infrastructure systems: assessment of an innovative proof-of-concept via medium-size scale testing - ReWarD ”, 24 months. Role: Team member. (01/02/2018 - 30/04/2020)

D. Teaching experience

• Lecturer (30 hours), Course: “Advanced Structural Mechanics”, International MSc in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna. A. Y. 2023/2024.
• Lecturer (36 hours), Course: “Structural Concept Design”, International MSc in Architecture and Creative Practices for the City and Landscape, University of Bologna. A. Y. 2023/2024.
• Lecturer (3 hours), Course: “Advanced Hydrosystems Engineering”, International MSc in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna. A. Y. 2021/2022.
• Lecturer (3 hours), Course: “Introductory Course in Advanced Structural Mechanics”, International MSc in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna. A. Y. 2018/2019.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Course: “Advanced Hydrosystems Engineering”, International MSc in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna. A. Y. 2021/2022.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Course: “Advanced Structural Mechanics”, International MSc in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna. A. Y. from 2017/2018 to 2020/2021.

E. Grants and awards

• Young Researchers Grant (2022) for the project ELeMEnT "Enhanced Locally resonant Metamaterials for Train-induced vibration mitigation", funded by Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MUR) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) [150k€].
  
  
• ALMArie CURIE PurpoSE Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy [24k€].
  
  
• Reciepent of Seal of Excellence (SoE) for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021), Global Fellowship under the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF call.

• Research Fellowship (2022), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

• Marco Polo Incentive Fellowship (2019/2), to support research studies abroad, University of Bologna, Italy [3450€].

• Ph.D. Scholarship in Structural and Environmental Health Monitoring, and Management (2017), University of Bologna, Italy.
  
• Unibo Action2 Grant for International Master Students (A.Y. 2014-2015), University of Bologna [11k€].
• Unibo Action2 Grant for International Master Students (A.Y. 2013-2014), University of Bologna [11k€].

F. Accomplishments

• • Olympic Medal for the best paper award at the 2nd Engineering Science Olympiad (OES 2025) held at the University of Stavanger, Norway. (June 2025).
• "3MT Finalist", selected as one of the 14 finalists of Three-Minute Thesis Award-Unibo edition. (February 2020)
• COST ACTION Denorms grant No. CA15125, Sep 2019, for the attendance of the 2nd Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials (SAM2019), Ischia, Italy.

G. Work Experience

• Technical Civil Engineer at ASTALDI S.p.a, (Feb - Oct 2017).