April 2024: Awarded ERC Advanced Grant (Project No. 101140720, IMMENSE)
July 2018: Elected Member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
July 2015: Appointed Euromech Fellow by the European Mechanics Society
2006: Received the Bruno Finzi Prize for Rational Mechanics from the Istituto Lombardo
Author/co-author of over 360 papers, 14 patents, and 2 books (including 'Mechanics of Microsystems', Wiley, 2018)
Scopus: h-index 40, 5868 citations (as of December 19, 2024)
Research Experience
2009–2012: Deputy Head of the Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Since 2002: Full Professor (Professore ordinario) of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
1998–2002: Associate Professor (Professore associato) of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
1991–1998: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
May 2006: Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA
July–August 2004: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie, École Normale Supérieure Cachan, France
July 1996, February 1997, July 1999: Visiting Professor at École Normale Supérieure Cachan
1991–1992: Researcher, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie, Cachan, France
July 1988–November 1989: Served as Lieutenant in the Italian Military Engineering Corps
Background
Full Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Member of the technical committee of Eurosime
Associate Editor of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, and Frontiers in Materials – Mechanics of materials
President of the 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2020+1)
Member of the IUTAM Executive Committee (2016–2024)
Research interests span structural and materials mechanics, including: damage in composites and interface models; brittle and quasi-brittle fracture; parameter identification of constitutive models; reliability, design, and multi-physics for MEMS; metamaterials; deep and reinforcement learning applied to SHM and optimization of materials and structures