Personale docente

Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratories of the Dep. of Industrial Engineering, University of Parma, Italy.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, ELSEVIER, since 2004, and ASME APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS since 2008.
Member of the EDITORIAL BOARD and ADVISOR of JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, ELSEVIER.
GUEST EDITOR of a special issue of COMPUTERS AND STRUCTURES, ELSEVIER, 2004.
Secretary of the ASME Technical Committee Dynamics and Control of Structures and Systems (AMD Division).
Author of the book NONLINEAR VIBRATIONS AND STABILITY OF SHELLS AND PLATES, 2008, Cambridge University Press
Co-chairman of the EUROMECH Colloquium 483 “Geometrically non-linear vibrations of structures”, 9-11 July 2007, Porto, Portugal.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Bologna, Italy, 1995.
Master degree in Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Ancona, Italy, 1992. Mark: 110/110 cum laude. 1st of the class & top mark of the faculty at that time.
Visiting Professor, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada, 1997-2002.
Excellence Scholarship for Ph.D. Univ. of Bologna, Italy.
Award of the Italian Research Council to visit McGill Univ. The research was awarded a prize, 1997.
Referee of papers for: Journal of Sound and Vibration, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Nonlinear Dynamics, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, AIAA Journal, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Computers and Structures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Acta Mechanica, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Series A), Engineering Structures, Journal of Vibration and Control, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Computers and Fluids, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Mechanics of Structures and Machines, Engineering Computations, Meccanica, Clinical Biomechanics, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, The Anziam Journal, ASME IMECE Conferences, 2nd and 3rd M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics.
Member of the ASME Technical Committees: Fluid-Structure Interaction (PVP Division) and Vibration and Sound (DE Division).
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Centre of Excellence for Integrated Aircraft Technologies, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
Member of the Int. Organizing Committee, 8th Int. Conf. on Flow-Induced Vibration, 2004, Paris, France.
Member of the Scientific Committee, International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics – KPI 2004, 14-16 September 2004, Kharkov, Ukraina.
INVITED SEMINARS at McGill and Concordia Univ. Montreal, Univ. of Firenze, Iran University of Science and Technology, Kharkov Politecnic Institute.
Co-organizer of the Symposium Nonlinear Dynamics of Shells and Plates, ASME IMECE, 2000, Orlando USA.
Co-organizer of the Symposium Fluid-Structure Interactions, ASME IMECE, 2002, New Orleans USA.
Co-organizer of the Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics, ASME IMECE, 2004 and 2005.
Symposium co-organizer, Nonlinear Dynamics of Continuous Fluid/ Structural Systems, 2nd and 3rd M.I.T. Conference, 2003 & 2005, Cambridge USA.
COURSES: Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems, Dynamic Design and Condition Monitoring of Mechanical Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Parma.
PUBLICATIONS: Author of over 200 papers, including 90 journal papers, and a book publishd by Cambridge University Press.
HEAD OF RESEARCH GROUPS: National coordinator of projects granted by the Italian space agency and COFIN and FIRB projects of the Italian Ministry for University and Research, 2002 and 2003.