Current Position
since 2023: member of the General Assembly della European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).
since 2022: member of the General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
since 2021: full professor of Mechanics of Solids
and Structures, DICAM, UniBO.
since 2019: member of the Executive Board of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC) of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA).
since 2010: member of the Faculty of the PhD Program in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, UniBO.
since 2008: head of the Laboratory of Computational
Mechanics (LAMC), DICAM, UniBO.
Education and Previous
Positions
2018-2020: tutor of the Collegio Superiore of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.
2017-2022: director of the MS International Program in Civil Engineering, DICAM, Università di Bologna.
2014-2021: associate professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures, DICAM, UniBO.
2010-2014: member of the Faculty of the PhD Program in Materials Engineering, UniBO.
2005-2010: member of the Faculty of the PhD Program in Structural and Hydraulics Engineering, UniBO.
2002-2014: assistant professor of Mechanics of Solids and
Structures, at the Faculty of Engineering, UniBO.
2001: contract researcher, at DISTART, UniBO.
2001: post-doctoral fellowship, UniBO.
2001: Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics, UniBO.
1997: Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering cum laude,
UniBO.
Research Grants
2022-2024: ReLUIS/DPC - Linea di Ricerca WP10 Contributi normativi relativi a costruzioni esistenti in muratura, funded by Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, UniBO Research Unit coordinator.
2021-2024: Global fellowship Marie Skłodowska-Curie “A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation- HOLAHERIS”, H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, Supervisor.
2020-2023: Crystallization damage at the interfaces of artworks - CRYSTINART, JPI - JOINT HERITAGE EUROPEAN PROGRAMME, UniBO principal investigator.
2019-2021: ReLUIS/DPC - Linea di Ricerca WP10 Contributi normativi relativi a costruzioni esistenti in muratura, funded by Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, UniBO Research Unit coordinator.
2018: ReLUIS/DPC - Linea di Ricerca PR1 Muratura, funded by Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, UniBO Research Unit coordinator.
2016-2018: Innovazione di processo PER la filiera della piastrella CERamica sostenibile - IPERCER, POR-FESR 2014-2020 (www.ipercer.it), WP leader.
2015-2016: Smart Manufacturing 2020, Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Fabbtica Intelligente (www.fabbricaintelligente.it), UniBO coordinator and WP leader.
2013-2016: Kinetics of Salt Crystallization and Mechanical Damage in Historic Masonry ‒ KISADAMA, JPI - JOINT HERITAGE EUROPEAN PROGRAMME (www.kisadama.eu ), project leader.
Organizing Activity
2023: member of the Scientific Committee of the XXIII Convegno Italiano di Meccanica Computazionale, X Riunione del Gruppo Materiali AIMETA, I Riunione del Gruppo di Biomeccanica – GIMC GMA GBMA, Reggio Calabria, 2023.
2021: member of the Scientific Committee of the conference Mechanics Of Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials – MURICO7, online, November 24-26, 2021.
2018: member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 10th European Solid Mechanics
Conference – ESMC10, 2-6 July 2018, Bologna, Italy.
2017: member of the Scientific Committee of 4th International Conference on Sustainable
Design and Manufacturing – SDM2017, 26-28 April 2017, Bologna, Italy.
2014: member of the Local Organizing Committee of 43° National Congress of the Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi delle Sollecitazioni - AIAS2014, Rimini, September 9-12, 2014.
2011: member of the Local Organizing Committee of XX Congress of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics – AIMETA2011, Bologna, September 12–15, 2011.
2008: member of Scientific Committee of the 4th International Conference on Structural Defects and Repair – CINPAR2008, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-28, 2008.
2006: member of the Local Organizing Committee of XVI Italian Congress of Computational Mechanics – GIMC 2006, Bologna, June 26–28, 2006.
