People

Scientific coordination

•   the Coordinator: prof. Marco TUBINO;

•   the Executive Committee: composed of 7 teachers from the relevant disciplinary areas, assisted by a member of the administrative staff, who supports the activities of the Coordinator: prof. Alberto BELLIN; Prof. Oreste Salvatore BURSI; prof. Michael DUMBSER; Prof. Davide GENELETTI; Prof. Nicola PUGNO; prof. Dino ZARDI; Prof. Guido ZOLEZZI;

•   the International Scientific Committee: composed of four professors of international renown in the areas of interest of the project: prof. Roman STOCKER, ETH Zurich (Switzerland); Prof. Amilcare CARDINAL, Princeton University (USA); prof. Paolo GARDONI, University of Illinois (United States).

Visiting Fellows

In 2018, the visit of Prof. Richard ROTUNNO, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (USA) was founded as part of the invitation program for visiting professor, who has held a series of lectures in the master’s degree program in Environmental Meteorology.

In 2019, the following activities were organized:

  • Joint visit of Prof. Robert BORNSTEIN, Department of Meteorology of San Jose State University (USA), and Prof. Sergej ZILITINKEVICH, Finnish Institute of Meteorology (Finland), who has held a series of lectures in the master’s degree course in Environmental Meteorology and conducted research related to the parameterization of turbulence in mesoscale weather models;
  • visit of prof. Pier Luigi VIDALE, Department of Meteorology of the University of Reading (Great Britain), who held a series of lectures in the master’s degree course in Environmental Meteorology and conducted research activities related to the study of surface-exchange atmosphere on complex terrain;
  • visita nell'ottobre 2019 del Prof. Henk DIJKSTRA del Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Utrecht (Olanda), che ha tenuto il corso "Modern data-based and complex systems approaches to problems in the environmental sciences”.

The restrictive measures introduced to counter the spread of the pandemic from Covid-19 have strongly compromised the invitation program of visiting professors and have resulted in the cancellation of almost all the activities that had been planned. In 2020 he was invited by Prof. Luca Caracoglia of Northeastern University, Boston, USA, who participated as a lecturer at the 2nd International Summer School online "MECHRES20 - Mechanics and Performance of Resilient Structures and Infrastructures" organized by DICAM, which took place from 8 to 11 September 2020.

In 2021, due to the restrictive measures introduced to counter the spread of the pandemic by Covid-19, the invitation program of visiting professors was redefined with reference to the academic year 2021/22, and two internal calls for applications were issued. In 2021 he was invited by Prof. Felipe P.J. De Barros (Associate Professor of the University of Southern California, Sonny Astani Department of Civil), who worked at the Department from September to December 2021.

Ph.D. Fellows

Ph.D. students with a grant funded by the Project of Excellence:

XXXIV ciclo

  • ANDREOTTI Roberto - Modeling and Testing of Fully Dissipative Steel Devices for Resilient Buildings with Steel and/or Composite Steel-Concrete Structures Subjected to Seismic Hazard;
  • CHIOCCHETTI Simone - New high order schemes for compressible multi-phase flows;
  • HINEGK Luigi - Upgrade of aging hydraulic infrastructures to support fluvial ecosystem services in regulated rivers;
  • LIPRANDI Daniele - Multiscale numerical models for adhesion and friction of biological and bioinspired surfaces;
  • NARDIN Mattia - Mechanics of materials and structures under extreme loading conditions;
  • ORTA ORTIZ Maria Susana - Impact assessment of nature-based solutions based on green and blue infrastructures in urban areas.

XXXV ciclo

  • CONCINI Ilaria - Novel microstructured solids for the design of ultra-resistant materials under extreme conditions;
  • D'AMATO Concetta - The Stradivari project: Modelling Water fluxes, energy budget, and entropy in-side vegetation and the Critical Zone;
  • MARCHIO Mattia - Characterization of land-atmosphere exchange processes over simple slopes by means of data analysis, numerical modeling, and similarity scaling;
  • MORA HIDALGO Samantha Carolina - Design of high-performance micro-structured materials by using the 3D printing technique;
  • NAUTIYAL Himanshu - Global optimization methods to study nanostructured materials;
  • ZANONI Maria Grazia - Effects of climate change and human exploitation on groundwater resources in a mesoscale watershed.

XXXVI ciclo

•   BERNARD Chiara - Mechanobiology of coronaviruses uptake across the cell membrane;

  • COLELLA Gaetano - Micromechanics & stability of materials;
  • FAZIO Vincenzo - Nanomechanics of wrinkling;
  • GÜNER Tuğberk - Analysis and risk assessment of petrochemical tank farms endowed with innovative metamaterials based on Gaussian process regression;
  • MORLOT Martin Jean-Luc Emile - Assessment of social and economic impacts caused by natural hazards in mountain regions;
  • PIRLOT Pascal - Investigating fundamental morphodynamic processes in multi-thread-rivers;
  • TOOTOONCHI Roshanak - Changes in the Mediterranean climate with global warming: Impacts on a water resource.

XXXVII ciclo

  • BARILE Gabriele - River morphodynamics: connectivity and non-equilibrium;
  • BEIGREZAEE Mohammad-Javad - Optimal design of hierarchical micro-structured materials for wave propagation control and 3D micromechanical systems (MMS);
  • BONANOMI Riccardo - Response of meandering river dynamics to climate and anthropogenic stressors;
  • CASPANI Valeria Francesca - Decision support system based on data fusion from satellite and terrestrial structural health monitoring;
  • EKANAYAKE Prasanjaya - Micro and nanomaterials in rivers and aquifers;
  • GUARRACINO Flavia - Short and long-range effects in optimization of multifunctional bioinspired materials;
  • MIRANDOLA Andrea - Extreme mechanics of solids and structures;
  • PANDRIN Enrico - Understanding sediment transport processes for improving river management;
  • SHANMUGARA Jasekaran Manikandan - Modeling the Impact of Water Uses and Climate Change on Groundwater Resources;
  • SU Maijia - From natural to anthropogenic seismicity: a holistic risk framework based on probabilistic graphical models and Vine Copula theory.