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 |
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 |
4/2023 | 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; |
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); |
2015 |
Research on the “torsional locomotion” featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A (471 – 2175, Mar 2015); |
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); |
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 Thematic Session "Education in Mechanics" within the ICTAM2024 - 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 25-30, 2024, Daegu (Korea).
- 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
- Fabrizio Aloschi (2023) Analysis of nonlinear metamaterials and metastructures for mitigation and control of elastic waves, 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 (17 till October 2023; 29 in 2022; 25 in 2021; 24 in 2020; 24 in 2019; 16 in 2018; 32 in 2017; 17 in 2016; ...)
|
|
Students supervision
PhD students- Andrea Mirandola (expected PhD defense in Winter 2024-25);
- Mohammad Hosein Nejabatmeimandi (expected PhD defense in Summer 2024);
- Marco Amato (expected PhD defense in Winter 2023-24);
- 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).
Back to main page