Current Position
since 2024: President of the Board of Directors of Il Saggiatore Musicale (saggiatoremusicale.it).
since 2023: member of the Scientific Committee of Nomisma (nomisma.it).
since 2023: member of the Steering Committee of Fondazione Golinelli (fondazionegolinelli.it).
since 2023: member of the Advisory Board of Bologna Innovation Square – BIS (bolognainnovationsquare.it).
since 2022: Vicepresident of Italian Research Center on High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing – ICSC (supercomputing-icsc.it).
since 2022: member of the Strategic Committee of Digital Innovation Hub Emilia-Romagna – DIHER.
since 2022: President of the Technical-Scientific Committee of Neurological Sciences Research Foundation – AUSL Bologna ETS.
since 2022: President of the Digital Supply Chain of Confindustria Emilia Area Centro (confindustriaemilia.it).
since 2021: President of CINECA (cineca.it).
since 2021: President of International Foundation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development – IFAB (ifabfoundation.org).
since 2021: independent member of the Board of Directors of some companies.
since 2021: member of the Advisory Committee of Anvur – National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (anvur.it).
since 2021: member of the General Assembly of Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì (fondazionecariforli.it).
since 2015: member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute (accademiascienzebologna.it).
since 2007: full professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures, University of Bologna.
Education and Previous
Positions
2019 – 2023: Board member of European University Association (eua.eu).
2021 – 2022: President of Tech University School – Emilia-Romagna (super.unier.eu).
2015 – 2021: Rector of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (unibo.it).
2017 – 2021: Board member of Italian University Rectors Conference (crui.it).
2015 – 2021: President of Federico Zeri Foundation (fondazionezeri.unibo.it).
2015 – 2021: President of Bologna Business School (bbs.unibo.eu).
2015 – 2021: President of Fibra – Fondazione culturale Italo Brasiliana.
2019 – 2021: member of the Board of Rectors of UnaEuropa - University Alliance Europe (una-europa.eu).
2019 – 2021: member of Presidents Board of EBU - European Bioeconomy University (european-bioeconomy-university.eu).
2020 – 2021: member of the steering committee IHEA - Italian Higher Education with Africa.
2016 – 2021: Governing Council member of the Observatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum (magna-charta.org).
2018 – 2020: member of the International Drafting Group of the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020 (magna-charta.org).
2016 – 2019: President of Bononia University Press (buponline.com).
2017 – 2018: President of UniAdrion.
2012 – 2015: member of Academic Senate, Unibo.
2010 – 2015: head of Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), Unibo (dicam.unibo.it).
2013 – 2015: member of the Administrative Board of the Centro Ceramico, nominated by Unibo (cencerbo.it).
2010 – 2015: member of the Steering Committee of Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Industriale in Edilizia e Costruzioni, Unibo.
2008 – 2015: tutor of Collegio Superiore, Unibo.
2002 – 2015: member of the Faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Unibo.
2010 – 2014: member of the Technical Committee
on Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics, European
Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (eccomas.org).
2006 – 2013: member of the Executive Council of
the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC), AIMETA (aimeta.it).
2007 – 2010: head of Department of Structural,
Transport, Hydraulic, Survey and Territory Engineering (DISTART),
Unibo.
2008 – 2010: director of the 2nd level Master
in Engineering management of risk induced by natural hazards,
Unibo.
2003 – 2007: head of the Laboratory of Computational
Mechanics (LAMC), DISTART, Unibo.
2001 – 2007: associate professor of Mechanics of Solids
and Structures, at the Faculty of Engineering, Unibo.
2000 – 2001: assistant professor of Mechanics of Solids
and Structures, at the Faculty of Engineering, Unibo.
1999 – 2000: contract researcher, at DISTART, Unibo.
1998 – 1999: post-doctoral fellowship, Unibo.
1994 – 1998: Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics, Unibo.
1994: Master degree in Civil Engineering cum laude,
Unibo.
Honors and Awards
2022: Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary.
2021: Turrita d'argento, City of Bologna.
2020: Medal with the Seal of Caterina Sforza, City of Forlì.
2020: Onorificenza City of Ravenna.
2019: Commendatore, Ordine al Merito, Italian Republic.
2019: Grande Ufficiale, Ordem de Rio Branco, Federative Republic of Brazil.
2018: Cavaliere di Gran Croce, Ordine di Sant'Agata, Republic of San Marino.
2018: Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary.
2016: Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, Indiana University.
2016: Albo d'oro, City of Perugia.
Scientific Organizing Activity
2018: co-chairman of 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference – ESMC 2018 (Bologna, 2-6 luglio 2018).
2014: member of Scientific Committee of
11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics – WCCM XI, 5th
European Conference on Computational Methods – ECCM V and
6th European Conference on Computational Fluid
Dynamics – ECFD VI (Barcellona, 20-25 luglio
2014).
2014: co-chairman of International Seminar
on Mechanics of Masonry Structures – MURICO 4 (Ravenna, 9-11
settembre 2014).
2012: member of Scientific Committee of
XIX Italian Congress of Computational Mechanics – GIMC 2012
(Rossano, June 25–27, 2012).
2011: chairman of the Local Organizing
Committee of XX Congress of the Italian Association of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics – AIMETA 2011 (Bologna,
September 12–15, 2011).
2010: member of Scientific Committee of XVIII
Italian Congress of Computational Mechanics – GIMC 2010 (Siracusa,
September 22–24, 2010).
2009: member of Scientific Committee of 3°
National Congress of MEchanics of Masonry Structures
Strengthened with Composite Materials – MuRiCo 3 (Venezia, April
1-3, 2009).
2009: member of Organizing Committee of
XIII Congress of Italian National Association of Earthquake
Engineering – ANIDIS 2009 (Bologna, June 28-July 2,
2009).
2008: member of Scientific Committee of XVII
Italian Congress of Computational Mechanics – GIMC 2008 (Alghero,
September 10–12, 2008).
2008: member of the Local Organizing Committee
of 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics – WCCM8 and 5th
European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and
Engineering – ECCOMAS 2008 (Venezia, June 30 – July 5, 2008).
2006: chairman of XVI Italian Congress of
Computational Mechanics – GIMC 2006 (Bologna, June 26–28,
2006).
