Beatrice Belletti is Full Professor (since 01/03/2020 to date) of Structural Engineering (Disciplinary-Scientific Area CEAR-07) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture (DIA), University of Parma. At the University of Parma, she was previously Associate Professor (31/10/2015 - 29/02/2020) and Assistant Professor (2004 – 2015).
Teacher of Dynamic Analysis and Seismic Design of Structures II, Construction Techniques I, Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete. Tutor of more than 100 master’s these in Civil Engineering and bachelor’s theses in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Civil Engineering and Architecture and tutor of 7 PhD Theses.
“Invited Professor” at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (15/11/2015 - 15/12/2015) and visiting researcher at TuDelft.
Principal Investigator/Associate Investigator/manager of several research and education projects such as GreenBUILD – Green & Energy-Efficient Building Design for UA Renovation (2026-2028 - Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Action “Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education” ERASMUS‑EDU‑2025‑CBHE‑STRAND‑2); DT-MMS-I: Digital Twins in Management, Maintenance and Sustainability of infrastructures (2025 – 2026 - EU GREEN - European University Alliance for Sustainability, Responsible Growth, inclusive Education and Environment, “European Universities”, ERASMUS+ 2021/2027); Enhancing RC critical structUres vuLnerability assEssment through State- and time-dependent fragility curves (ERCULES) (2024-2025 - “Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (RETURN)”, PNRR, Mission 4 – European Union); FAIL-SAFE: near-real-time perFormance Assessment of exIsting buiLdings Subjected to initiAl Failure through multi-scalE simulation and structural health monitoring (2023-2025 - MUR - PRIN 2022); Integrated Digital Tools for Structural Monitoring, Diagnostics and Predictive Maintenance of Bridges and Viaducts (DIGI-BRIDGE) (2023 – 2025 - Region ER - PR-FESR - European Regional Development Fund.); FIRMITAS: multi-hazard assessment, control and retroFIt of bridges for enhanced Robustness using sMart IndusTriAlized Solutions (2022-2025 - PRIN 2020); Failure mechanisms due to lack of construction details and degradation phenomena in existing reinforced concrete structures (2017-2020 - PRIN 2015).
She was the winner of the call of the University of Parma in 2023 for the equipment financing of a 3D high performance scanner.
She participates to several research projects such as Spoke n. 5 « Circular economy and blue economy », WP2: Waste and wastewater arising from production and domestic consumption chains: valorization and transformation of waste into new materials/products. Innovative technologies and strategies for prevention, reuse, recycling, re-design of materials and decommissioning (2022-2025 – PNRR); Circular and Sustainable Concrete Additivated with recycled materials from local supply chains (CASA) (2023-2026 - Region ER - PR-FESR - European Regional Development Fund.); Circular concretes from composite waste (CIRCOMP) (2023-2026 – MASE); CALCINVETRI - Eco-sustainable concretes containing vitrification aggregates from waste-to-energy municipal solid waste slag (2020-2022 - Region ER - FSE - European Social Fund.); “REPARO - Optimization of REPairing interventions on structures and infrAstructures based on the numerical pRevisiOn of their residual service life” (2023 - University Call for Research 2023 – Action A); eBIM: existing Building Information Modelling for the management of interventions of existing heritage (2018-2021 – Region ER - PR-FESR - European Social Fund.); IMPReSA-Betonplast: Development of innovative construction materials including non-recyclable plastic particles acting as reinforcement (2018-2021 - Region ER - PR-FESR - European Social Fund.).
She also carries out applied research activities such as contracts, conventions and agreements with companies of the building sector experienced in the construction of civil construction works and infrastructure, multiutilities, manufacturing prefabricated elements, steel fibres and reinforcing bars, steel structural components, dry joints between prefabricated components, etc.
Principal Investigator of several agreements with Regional Agency for Territorial Security and Civil Protection, Reluis, Building Services Center, Delft University, etc.
Member of several fib Committees such as fib TG3.2 fib: Existing concrete structures (since 2012); fib TG2.4: Computer-Based Modelling and Design (since 2019); fib TG. 1.1.7 - Performance Evaluation and Service Life Extension of Existing Bridges (since 2025); fib SAG - Special Activity Group: Sustainability (since 2023).
Member of UNI and CEN/TC250 Committees such as UNI/CT 021 "Structural Engineering" (since 2020); CEN/TC250/WG6 Robustness (since 2018); CEN/TC250/WG6 Project Team WG6.T2: Robustness Rules in Material Related Eurocode Parts (2018 - 2021)
Member expert CEN/TC250/WG6 writing panel JRC report “Guidance on the design for structural robustness”; writing group CNR-DT214/2018: Instructions for evaluating the robustness of constructions; Observing members of UNI/CT 021/SC 10 "Basic of Structural Design” (since 2020).
Co-Convener of fib WP 3.7.1 Integrated Limit State Verification Framework for Existing Concrete Structures and fib WP 3.7.2 Expert Roles and Responsibilities for the Assessment of Existing Concrete Structures. Chair of WP 8.8.2: ULS and SLS design approaches under chloride- and carbonation-induced corrosion (2024 - 2026).
Since 2025 she is member of the Commission for the revision of the Italian Technical Standards – Sub-group Assessment / Verification: 4.5. road and railway bridges.
National Coordinator Technical Body Commission UNI/CT 021/GL 06 "Robustness" (since 2020); Coordinator of the CNR writing group “The safety assessment of corroded RC and PC structures” (since 2022).
Since 2019 she is member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop CACRCS DAYS that since 2025 has become fib Symposium fib CACRCS: Capacity Assessment of Corroded Concrete Structures.
Author of more than 315 papers and scientific reports, published in national and international documents, speaker in several conferences and reviewer of international journals. Since 2022 member of the Editorial Board of fib Structural Concrete Journal.
In 2025 she received the fib Fellow Member certificate from the International Federation for Structural Concrete.
