Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Education
| 2009 | PhD Degree in "Materials and Structural Engineering", University of Trento, Italy |
| 2005 | Civil Engineering Full-Honors Degree, University of Trento, Italy |
| 10/2019 - | Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 12/2010 - 9/2019 | Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 10/2010 - 12/2010 | Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy. Host: Prof. L Bardella |
| 11/2009 - 09/2010 | Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Italy. Host: Prof. D. Bigoni and Prof. L. Deseri |
| 11/2008 - 10/2009 | Research Associate, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Host: Prof. J.R. Willis |
| 8/2007 | Visiting Scientist at the Department of Mathematics, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Host: Prof. A.B. Movchan |
| 6/2024 | Lecturer of "Perturbation methods for dynamics and stability of structures" (6h) within the PhD Course "Perturbation methods: theory and applications (River Morphodynamics and Structural Mechanics)", PhD School of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2024 - | Lecturer of "Configurational forces in structural mechanics", given by Prof. Francesco Dal Corso to the Master Students in Mechanical Engineering of the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, May 20, 2024, Osaka (JP). |
| 9/2023 | Lecturer of the 3rd Training School - Technological aspects of the engineering of lightweight structures of the ITN Marie Curie project "LIGHTEN", University College London, UK |
| 2023 - | Reference person for the Master Course "Dynamics and Plastyicity of Structures" (100h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2023 - | Lecturer of "Dynamics of Structures" (60h) and of "Theory of Plasticity" (30h) within the Master Course "Dynamics and Plastyicity of Structures" (100h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2023 - | Lecturer of the PhD Course "Waves in metamaterials and periodic structures" (3h), PhD School of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 7/2022 | Lecturer of the RE-FRACTURE2 Summer School - Nonlinear and extreme mechanics of the ITN Marie Curie project "RE-FRACTURE2", University of Trento, Italy |
| 5/2022 | Organizer and lecturer of the 2nd Training School - Computational mechanics and data-driven design of materials and structures of the ITN Marie Curie project "LIGHTEN", University of Trento, Italy |
| 9/2021 | Lecturer of 1st Training School - Characterisation and modelling of structural membranes of the ITN Marie Curie project "LIGHTEN", online |
| 12/2020 | Organizer and lecturer of the 2nd Training School of the ITN Marie Curie project "INSPIRE", University of Trento, Italy |
| 2019 - | Reference person for the Master Course "Instability of Structures" (60h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2019 - | Lecturer of "Instability of discrete structural systems" (30h) within the Master Course "Instability of Structures" (60h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 12/2017 | Lecturer of the PhD Course "Nonlinear mechanics of structures" (10h), PhD School of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2015 - 2022 | Reference person for the Master Course "Theory and Dynamics of Structures" (120h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2013 - 2022 | Lecturer of "Theory of Plasticity" (30h) within the Master Course "Theory and Dynamics of Structures" (120h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2009 - 2022 | Lecturer of "Dynamics of Structures" (60h) within the Master Course "Theory and Dynamics of Structures" (120h), School of Civil Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2006 - 2009 | Teaching Assistant of Undergraduate courses "Structural Mechanics", "Theory of Elasticity", "Strength of Materials", School of Engineering, University of Trento, Italy |
Awards
| 2023 |
Award for the Best Video in the Gallery of Nonlinear Dynamics at the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear dynamics for design of mechanical systems across different length/time scales, July 31 - August 4, 2023, Tsukuba, Japan; |
| 2022 |
Research on “failure mechanisms in ductile damaged materials with numerous rigid line inclusions” featured on the cover of the 2022 volumes of the International Journal of Solids and Structures;
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| 2019 | 2018 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy; |
| 2017 |
Research on the “mechanics of soft robot arms” featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A (473, 2198, Feb 2017);
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| 2015 |
Research on the “torsional locomotion” featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A (471 – 2175, Mar 2015);
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| 2015 |
Exhibition of the “elastica arm scale” for the Metrology Day 2015 at Scale Museum (Campogalliano, Italy); |
| 2014 |
Research on the “elastica arm scale” featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A (470 – 2170, Oct 2014);
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| 2013 | AIMETA Junior Prize in Solid and Structural Mechanics, XXI AIMETA Congress in Torino, Italy; |
| 2012 | Ceramic TTD (Technology Transfer Day) award (together with Prof. Bigoni and Prof. Piccolroaz), Tecnargilla2012 in Rimini, Italy; |
| 2009 | Award for outstanding Thesis, University of Trento, Italy. |
Research Grants
- Research Unit Coordinator in the Research Grant "LIGHTEN - Ultralight membrane structures towards a sustainable environment", H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 (2020-2024); total funding 1.4 MEuro (funding to the research unit: 245 kEuro).
- Reserach Unit Co-Coordinator (together with Prof. O.S. Bursi) in the Research Grant "INSPIRE - Innovative Ground Interface Concepts for Structure Protection", H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 (2019-2023); total funding 3.9 MEuro (funding to the research unit: 253 kEuro).
- Coordinator of the Research Grant "HOTBRICKS - Mechanics of refractory materials at high-temperature for advanced industrial technologies", FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP (2013-2017); total funding 1.1 MEuro (funding to the research unit: 678 kEuro).
Conference Organization
- Co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within the ESMC2025 - 12th European Solids Mechanics Conference, July 7-11, 2025, Lyon (France).
- Co-organizer of the Thematic Session "Education in Mechanics" within the ICTAM2024 - 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 25-30, 2024, Daegu (Korea).
- Co-chairman of the Mini-Symposium "MS-7 Stability and dynamics of structures" at the 3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, ICoNSoM 2024, Cagliari (Italy), June 11-14, 2024.
- Co-organizer of the workshop "Advanced modelling of membrane structures, with a view to technological applications", October 23, 2023, online.
- Co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Recent advances in the mechanical modelling of metamaterials and periodic structures" within the XXV AIMETA Conference, September 4-9, 2022, Palermo (Italy).
- Co-organizer and member of the Scientific Committee of the mini-symposium "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within the ESMC2022 - 11th European Solids Mechanics Conference, July 4-8, 2022, Galway (Ireland).
- Co-organizer of the workshop "State of the art and challenges in the modelling and design of ultralightweight structures", May 12, 2022, online.
- Co-organizer of the thematic session "Recent advances in the mechanical modelling of metamaterials and periodic structures" within the XXIV AIMETA Conference, September 15-19, 2019, Rome (Italy).
- Co-organizer and member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Symposium RAMSS2019 - Recent Advances in the Mechanics of Solids and Structures, June 6-7, 2019, Trento (Italy).
- Co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Structures" within the ESMC2018 - 10th European Solids Mechanics Conference, July 2-6, 2018, Bologna (Italy).
- Member of the local organizing committee of the ESMC2018 - 10th European Solids Mechanics Conference, July 2-6, 2018, Bologna (Italy).
- Co-organizer of the workshop "State of the art and challenges in the dynamics and stability of structures", January 26, 2018, Trento.
- Co-organizer of the specialistic session "Recent advances in the mechanical modelling of composite materials and periodic structures" within the XXIII AIMETA Conference, September 4-7, 2017, Salerno (Italy).
- Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Congress CERMODEL2017 - Modelling and Simulation meet Innovation in Ceramics Technology, July 26-28, 2017, Trento (Italy).
- Co-organizer of the special session "Modelling of microstructured materials and metamaterials" within the GIMC-GMA2016 - XXI National Conference of Computational Mechanics and VIII Meeting of the AIMETA Materials Group, June 27-29, 2016, Lucca (Italy).
- Organizer of the workshop Modelling of refractory materials and ceramics, with a view to technological applications, April 22, 2016, Trento (Italy).
- Co-organizer of the specialistic session "Non-local modelling of materials" within the XXII AIMETA Conference, September 14-17, 2015, Genova (Italy).
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Congress FFW2015 - Fracture, Fatigue and Wear, August 27-28, 2015, Ghent (Belgium).
- Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Congress CERMODEL2015 - Modelling and Simulation meet Innovation in Ceramics Technology, July 1-3, 2015, Trento (Italy).
- Organizer of the workshop State of the art and challenges in thermal and mechanical modelling of ceramic materials, March 20, 2015, Trento (Italy).
- Member of the International Organizing Committee of EMN MEETING on CERAMICS - Energy Materials Nanotechnology and Chair of the workshop Advanced Problems in the Mechanical Modelling of Ceramic Materials, January 26-29, 2015, Orlando (USA).
- Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Congress CERMODEL2013 - Modelling and Simulation meet Innovation in Ceramics Technology, July 10-12, 2013, Trento (Italy).
Referee activity
Editorial Responsability- Invited News & Views for Nature Computational Science
Dal Corso, F. (2022) Bio-inspired adaptive grasper by chiral wrinkling.
Nature Computational Science, 2, 624–625.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00336-8 - Associate Editor of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering - Solid and Structural Mechanics section (launched on Feb 2021);
- Co-Editor with J.R. Willis of the Special Issue of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Professor Davide Bigoni (2020);
Examiner of PhD theses
- Chiara Bernard (2024) Dynamical models, chemo-mechanical coupling and numerical recipes for some soft biological systems, University of Trento (Italy);
- Luca Cecchini (2024) Geraniaceae seed-inspired soft robots for environmental actuation and sensing, University of Trento (Italy);
- Vincenzo Fazio (2024) Multiscale models based on statistical mechanics and physically-based machine learning for the thermo-hygro-mechanical behavior of spider-silk-like hierarchical materials, University of Trento (Italy);
- Samantha Carolina Mora Hidalgo (2024) Design of Kresling inspired architected materials by using Polyjet technique, University of Trento (Italy);
- Fabrizio Aloschi (2023) Analysis of nonlinear metamaterials and metastructures for mitigation and control of elastic waves, University of Trento (Italy);
- Naga Manikanta Kommanaboina (2023) Development of MEMS-Based Devices for Characterizing 2D Nanomaterials at Low Temperatures, University of Trento (Italy);
- Deison Preve (2022) Thermoelastic and Fracture Responses of Periodic Materials: Theory and Applications to Laminates and Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces, IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy);
- Marco Rossi (2021) Dynamics and stability of discrete and continuous structures: flutter instability in piecewise-smooth mechanical systems and cloaking for wave propagation in Kirchhoff plates, University of Trento (Italy);
- Riccardo Cavuoto (2021) Phase-field and reduced peridynamic theories for fracture problems, University of Trento (Italy);
- Daniel O'Shea (2019) Hyperelasticity for Soft Biological Tissues and Fibre-Reinforced Composites using Orthotropic Fourth-Order Tensors, University of New South Wales (Australia).
Research funding referee
- Referee for ISF (Israel Science Foundation) Personal Research Grants (2022);
- Referee for FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies) COFUND fellowship (2018);
Reviewer for scientific journal (12 till July 2024; 20 in 2023; 29 in 2022; 25 in 2021; 24 in 2020; 24 in 2019; 16 in 2018; 32 in 2017; 17 in 2016; ...)
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Students supervision
PhD students- Andrea Mirandola (expected PhD defense in Winter 2024-25);
- Mohammad Hosein Nejabatmeimandi (PhD 2024);
- Marco Amato (PhD 2024), currently Post-Doc at Czech Technical University (Prague);
- Mattia Nardin (PhD 2023), currently Engineer for the Publication Administration of Trento (Italy)
- Panagiotis Koutsogiannakis (PhD, 2019) currently post-doc at University of Trento (Italy);
- Nikolin Hima (PhD 2022), currently Structural Engineer at Archest (Italy);
- Alessandro Cazzolli (PhD, 2020) currently Structural Engineer at ProPlan (Italy);
- Gianluca Rizzi (PhD, 2019) currently Assistant Professor at TU Dortmund (Germany);
- Costanza Armanini (PhD, 2018) currently post-doc at Khalifa University (United Arab Emirates);
- Summer Shahzad (PhD, 2016) currently Structural Engineer at Ramboll Espoo (Finland);
- Federico Bosi (PhD, 2015) currently Associate Professor at the University College London (United Kingdom);
- Diego Misseroni (PhD, 2013) currently Associate Professor at the University of Trento (Italy);
- Mattia Bacca (PhD, 2013) currently Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada).
Post-doc Students
- Panagiotis Koutsogiannakis;
- Massimo Paradiso;
- Diana Giarola, currently Structural Engineer at Archest (Italy);
- Alessandro Cazzolli, currently Structural Engineer at ProPlan (Italy);
- Eliana Bortot, currently Associate Researcher at Fraunhofer Italia - IEC (Italy);
- Theodosios Papathanasiou currently Senior Lecturer at Aston University, Birmingham (United Kingdom);
- Thanasis Zisis currently Associate Professor at National Technical University of Athens (Greece).
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