Curriculum Vitae
Education
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Ph.D. (2007) in “Risk Management
on the Built Environment” (grade: excellent), international doctoral program of
the University of Florence and the TU-Braunschweig (dissertation on “Assessment
and Mitigation of Wind Risk of Suspended-Span Bridges”, certificate of merit
“for the particular scientific value of the doctoral thesis” awarded at the
Florence University Press Prize).
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Laurea (5-year degree, 2002) in
Civil Engineering (cum laude), University of Florence (dissertation on “Crack
modelling in concrete through the finite element method”, in Italian).
Related
professional and academic experience
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since
Nov. 2007, Research Associate (Assegnista di Ricerca) at the Department of Civil
Engineering of the University of Florence.
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Summer 2007, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Northwestern University.
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Dec. 2004, qualified in the examinations for 3-year PhD grants in two
doctoral programs at the University of Florence: (1) International Doctoral
Program on Risk Management and (2) National Doctoral Program in Civil
Engineering (the former grant has been opted for).
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2003, 10-month DAAD Research Scholarship at the University of Wuppertal.
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2001, 10-month compulsory military/civil service.
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2000, 7-month Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship at the University of
Wuppertal.
Scientific
interests
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Computational Mechanics; Masonry structures; Multiscale models;
First-order phase transitions; Constitutive models for concrete; Wind-bridge
interaction.
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Last update: Dec. 2008