Qualifications

Five Years Programme Degree in Civil Engineering cum laude (Roma "La Sapienza", 1990). Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering at SUNY, Buffalo August 1994.

Philosophy Doctor at University of Rome “La Sapienza” February 1996.

Official in the Military Corps of Engineers “Genio Militare”, 1990-1991.

Employment

Visiting Scholar, then Research Assistant at "National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research NCEER", SUNY, Buffalo, 1992-1994.

Assistant Professor at DISAT, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1996-2002.

Associate Professor at DISAT, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2002 - 2016.

Mastership of full professor in solids and structural mechanics, 2014.

Mastership of full professor in structural engineering, 2015.

Associate Professor at DISG, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2016 - 2020.

Full professor of solids and structural mechanics, University of L'Aquila, Italy, April 2020 - September 2020.

Full professor of solids and structural mechanics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2020 - present.

Academic Service and Impact

Chair of ANCRiSST2019 - the 14th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology

Chair of 2019 Asia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS)

Co-chair of EURODYN2017 – the X International Conference on Structural Dynamics

Member of scientific committee of several international congress 

Member of the editorial boards of 12 international journals

Referee for research funding institutions and peer-reviewed journals

Invited lectures at the Asia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS)

Worldwide participation as invited key-speaker to international congress and university seminars

International Exchange and collaborations

1992 to 1994 researcher on active structural control with prof. T.T. Soong at the NCEER, USA.

1997             researcher on structural identification and control, with prof. R. Ghanem Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.

2000          visiting researcher on cable-structure interaction in stayed systems with Prof. C. Taylor and Dr. J. Macdonald at University of Bristol Civil Engineering.

March 2006    visiting lecturer on identification and monitoring of the International Guadiana Cable-Stayed Bridge at University of Porto with prof. E. Caetano and A. Cunha.

Seminars: University of Columbia, New York; University of Bristol UK; Joint Research Center ad Ispra; Universidade do Porto – FEUP; Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, Nantes.

Invited lecture: Eleventh International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, St. Julians, Malta, 18-21 September 2007; The Ninth International Conference on Computational Structures Tecnology, Athens, 2008; IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control, Hangzhou (Cina), Maggio 2010; Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign lecturer August 2015; Dalian Institute of Technology China invited lecturer October 2015; University of Innsbruck, University College of London, UK lecturer July 2016; Asia-Pacific-European Summer School (APESS) on Smart Structures Technology, University of Cambridge, APESS 2016; University of Yokohama, Japan lecturer July 2017, APESS 2017; University of Qingdao University of Technology, lecturer July 2018, APESS 2018.

Research Interests

Since 1990, Vincenzo’s research has encompassed analytical, numerical and experimental methods in different fields of structural mechanics. Fundamental research themes concern: structural dynamics and stability, structural control and identification, structural reliability, earthquake engineering. In particular, his research output in international journals, book chapters and conferences proceedings, covers these specific themes:

-       Computational Mechanics and Structural Analysis:

  finite element methods and its applications;

   linear and nonlinear structural analysis of complex systems;

soil-structure and fluid-structure interactions;

-       Structural Control of Induced Vibrations:

 passive, semi-active and active control systems for earthquake engineering;

passive, semi-active and active control for cables and cable-supported structures;

adaptive control and tuned mass dampers;

-       Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability:

cable nonlinear dynamics;

cable-structure interaction in stayed systems

critical and post-critical behaviour of self-excited oscillation in structures

-       Structural Identification and Monitoring

modal and parametric identification and fem model updating

damage identification in cables

integrated identification and control strategies

data fusion and long term structural health monitoring

-       Structural Reliability and Management of Existing Structures

automated inspection and management methods for structures and infrastructures

reliability analysis of existing structures

seismic vulnerability of complex masonry structures

Research activities and projects

· NCEER at SUNY Buffalo – Experimental studies on an actively controlled shear type model on a shaking table (1992 –1994)

· University of L’Aquila – Experimental and analytical studies on cables and cable-supported structures; theoretical studies on nonlinear dynamics, identification and control; developer of reliability-based Bridge Management Systems

· Researcher in projects supported by CNR (EOLICA,1997) MIUR (PRIN - Project of National interest on dynamic behaviour of structures, 97-99, 00-01, 01-02, 03-04, 04-05).

· CO-PI on national project RELUIS for semi-active control for seismic engineering; grant 2007-2009, grant 2010-2013, grant 2014-2017, 2019-2021

· Coordinator of project supported by MIUR (PRIN - Project of National interest on structural identification, 2006-2007 and 2012-2015 on Damage and Dynamics);

· General Secretary of SICON project (Stability, Identification and COntrol in Nonlinear structural dynamics) 2006-2009 financed by the European Commission through the action Marie Curie within the 6th European Programme. During the developing of the project he is keynote speaker in the events TC2, TC3 and TC4.

· PI Fondazione Carispaq 2007: MIVIS - Innovation Methods for the Evaluation of the Structural Integrity and for the Seismic Protection of the monumental heritage of L’Aquila area - (48 months)

· Lab Head of RIDITT 2010: RICOSTRUIRE – Technological transfer and growth of new factories within advanced ICT technologies for economic and territorial development in post-earthquake area - (36 months)

· PI designer, developer and manager of the Structural Health Monitoring wireless system installed at the earthquake damaged Basilica of S. Maria di Collemaggio, L’Aquila.

· Structural Engineer Designer, of the innovative structural retrofitting using nonlinear viscous dampers of Edifice A of the Faculty Engineering of University of L’Aquila.

· PI e CO-PI of strategic project for University of L’Aquila RICOSTRUIRE, INCIPICT and SICURA financed by MISE Minister of Economic Development.

· PI European Union Grant Agreement n. 800687 for the research project titled “DESDEMONA - DEtection of Steel DEfects by Enhanced MONitoring and Automated procedure for self-inspection and maintenance” supported by the call RFCS 2017.

· Member of different associations of structural mechanics such as ACS (European Association for Control of Structures), AIMETA (Ass. Italiana Meccanica Teorica ed Applicata), ANIV (Ass. Italiana Ingegneria del Vento), ASCE – EM (American Association of Civil Engineering).

As DISG Faculty member, he is currently teaching Structural Mechanics for Chemical and Energy Engineering courses at Sapienza University of Rome (300 students for year).

Scientific Production Digest

He is author of 226 scientific publications of which, 1 is editor of a book volume, 2 proceedings volume, 2 special issues in journals, 54 journal papers, 4 papers on international journals open access publishing congress procedia, 23 chapters on book volume, 4 papers on national journals, 81 papers on International Proceedings, 34 papers in National Proceedings, 2 book reviews and 18 research reports. The indexed scientific production takes 1824 citations, for a personal h-index 28 (SCOPUS) or cited 2552 per un personal h-index 30 (GOOGLE Scholar).