Curriculum
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in Rome, in December 17, 1945.
Graduated in Civil Engineering, first-class honour's degree, in 1970.
Full Professor of Structural Mechanics since 1986.
Head of Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, 1998 to 2007.
Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, 2007- 2016.
Emeritus Professor of Sapienza University of Rome, 2019 - .
Coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in Structural Engineering, 1988-2002.
Director of the International Master in Analysis and Control of Vibrations in Civil and Industrial Applications, 2003- 2007.
Member of the Administration Council of Sapienza University of Rome, 2006-2009.
Member of the EUROMECH Nonlinear Oscillations Conference Committee, 2003-2008.
Member of Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (2014-).
Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2017-)
Vice President of Rome Sapienza Foundation (2015-2018)
He received the Theodore von Karman Medal of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) in 2021 for
"the stellar and unique career in academy and research, professional practice and leadership in academic administration for the benefit of generations of civil engineers.”".
Senior Editor of Journal of Vibration and Control (2014-2018).
He is a Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Vibration and Control (2019-).
He is a referee of international journals in structural mechanics and has been Guest Editor of Special Issues of Journal of Vibration and Control and International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics.
He has been a member of the following Editorial Boards :
Meccanica (1992-96), International Journal on Inverse Problems (1997-98), Journal of Structural Control (1998-2001), Journal of Vibration and Control, (1998-2014), International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (1999-), Acta Mechanica (2007-).
In 2008 the Journal of Vibration and Control dedicated a "Special Issue in honor of Professor Fabrizio Vestroni", on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Guest Editors:W. Lacarbonara, S. Natsiavas, B. Balachandran, vol. 14.
In 2017 the International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics dedicated a "Special Issue in honor of Professor Fabrizio Vestroni", on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Guest Editors: M. Amabili, S. Lenci, Y. Miklin, P. Spanos, vol. 94.
President of University Spin Off Diamonds (DIagnostics and MONitoring of Structures), 2013-2022.
Co-author of the Patent WO 2013 042152 A1_Hysteretic tuned-mass damper device for passive control of mechanical vibrations.
Organizer of the X International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2017, September 10-13, Rome, Italy.
Co-organizer of the following Conferences:
- IUTAM Symposium on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems in Mechanics, June 2003, Rome.
- Corso CISM 499 Dynamic Methods for Damage Detection in Structures, 2005 Udine, Italy.
- Marie Curie International Course on Experimental Dynamics, Model Identification and Damage Detection, June 2008, Rome, Italy.
- Euromech Colloquium 503 on Nonlinear Normal Modes, September 2009, Frascati (Rome).
- SICON, International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics, Stability, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Structures, September 21-25, 2009, Rome, Italy.
- ENOC, the European Nonlinear Oscillations Conference, July 24 - 29, 2011, Rome, Italy.
He has given lectures and seminars at several Universities, he was a member of scientific committees of national and international conferences, and has organized international symposia, congresses, courses and seminars at Sapienza University of Rome.
Coordinator of several national CNR (Italian Scientific Council) and MURST Programmes on Dynamic Response of Structures under ambient and human excitations (1988-) and principal investigator of PRIN (1997-2016 ).
Author and co-author of more than 250 papers (1972-) published in international and national journals and conferences on different items of applied mechanics and structural engineering.
Research is mainly located in structural dynamics area, focusing on three main themes: hysteretic systems, modelling of flexible structures undergoing large-amplitude motions, structural identification and damage detection.
He is a consultant for various public and private companies regarding the dynamic and static behaviour of buildings, bridges and monuments, structural health monitoring projects, analysis of complex structures.