Gabriele Della Vecchia
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy
E-mail: gabriele.dellavecchia@polimi.it
Date and place of birth: January 22nd ,1981, Castellanza (VA), Italy
Nationality: Italian
Mother tongue: Italian
Other languages: English, Spanish
Education
High School Diploma at Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei, Legnano (MI), Italy.
BS in Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2003, cum Laude.
MS in Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2005, cum Laude.
PhD in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2009, cum Laude.
Academic positions
since June 2015: Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
2012-2015: Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
2009-2011: Research Assistant, Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy), Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.
2007-2008: Visiting PhD student, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geo-Sciences.
2006-2009: PhD student in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Structural Engineering.
Istitutional charges
since 2020: Rector’s Delegate for International Relationship of the School of Civil, Environmental and Land Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano .
since 2019: Vice-Head of the Doctoral Programme in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
since 2017: member of the PhD Board in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
since 2015: Coordinator for ERASMUS and Double Degree Exchange Programme for the BS and MS in Civil Enginering, Politecnico di Milano.
2014-2017: Responsible for the admissions of the MS in Civil Engineering - Geotechnics, Politecnico di Milano.
2013-2016: Member of the Teaching Committe of the Deparment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Member of PhD juries in Politecnico di Milano (2016), Università degli Studi di Perugia (2017), Politecnico di Torino (2017).
Committees in International and National Conferences
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second European Conference on Unsaturated Soils E-UNSAT 2012
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Third Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2013
Member of the Organizing Committee of the XXV Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica, 2014
Member of the Program Committee of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils UNSAT 2014
Member of the Technical Committee of the Fourth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2014
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Sixth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2016
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Seventh Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2017
Member of the Organizing Comittee of the ECCOMAS Young Investigator Conference YIC2017
Chair and organizer of the Special Session 'Computational Geomechanics' at the ECCOMAS Young Investigator Conference YIC2017
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Eigth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2018
Mamber of the Organizing Committe of the XVI International Conference of IACMAG
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ninth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2019
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils EUNSAT2020 - Lisbon
Affiliations
Member of Associazione Geotecnica Italiana (AGI)
Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
Member of the Technical Commitee TC106 - Unsaturated Soils of the ISSMGE
Invited contributions
Keynote speaker at conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , Mini-Symposium on Theoretical, Numerical and Physical Modelling in Geomechanics, Roma, Italy, September 15-19, 2019.
Invited speaker at the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering (COUPLED PROBLEMS 2019), IS-Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media, Sitges, Spain, June 3-5, 2019.
Invited speaker at the Workshop 'Geotecnica e Geomeccanica per l'Energia', Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, February 12, 2019.
Invited speaker at the 4th International Workshop on Modern Trends in Geomechanics (IW-MTG4), Assisi, Italy. May 16-18, 2016.
Invited group leader at the NSF International Workshop on Eduction of Future Geotechnical Engineers in Response to Emerging Multi-scale Soil-Environment Problems, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. September 5-6, 2014.
Invited speaker at Bentonite Meeting, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium. January 16-17, 2014.
Italian Delegate at the European Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference (EYGEC 2011), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, September 4-7, 2011.
Invited speaker at the 2nd International Workshop of Young Researchers on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, October 19-21, 2009.
Invited speaker at the 3rd International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics, W(H)YDOC 08, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France, November 19-21, 2008.
Editorial Activity
Member of the Editorial Panel of the Journals: Géotechnique Letters, Geotechnical Engineering - Proceedings of the Insitution of Civil Engineers.
Reviewer Activity
International journals: Géotechnique, Géotechnique Letters, Proceedings of ICE - Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Engineering Geology, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Acta Geotechnica, Soils and Foundations, Applied Clay Sciences, Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International Journal, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, PLOS ONE, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Periodica Polytechnica, European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Open Geosciences, Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (Italian Geotechnical Journal)
Conferences: II European Conference on Unsaturated Soils E-UNSAT 2012 (Napoli, Italy), VI International Conference on Unsaturated Soils UNSAT 2014 (Sydney, Australia), Fourth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2014 (L'aquila, Italy), XV Panamerican Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2015 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), VI International Symposium of Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials 2015 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sixth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2016 (Verona, Italy), 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2017 (Trondheim, Norway), Seventh Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2017 (Catania, Italy), Eigth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2018 (Udine, Italy), Ninth Annual Meeting of Italian Young Geotechnical Engineers IAGIG 2019 (Napoli, Italy), 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Roma, Italy), VII Convegno Nazionale dei Ricercatori di Ingegneria Geotecnica (Lecco, Italy).