CV   -    Rana Nazifi 

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

• 01/09/2025 – 31/10/2025

Visiting Research Scholar - School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB) – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,

Barcelona, Spain

• 01/03/2025 – 31/08/2025

Visiting Research Scholar - Institute of Solar Energy– Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

14/09/2026 – 18/09/2026

PANEL AND SESSION MODERATOR

• 14/09/2026 – 18/09/2026

IASS and IWSS 2026 joint Conference on shells and spatial structures - Sustainability, Re-Use, and New Design Paradigms Turin, Italy - Co-Chair of the Session Adaptive and Deployable Spatial Structures  , IASS_IWSS2026_Program.pdf

1. Pavilion presentations (WG21, IW)

2. Advanced Manufacturing and Materials (WG21)

3. Adaptive and Deployable Spatial Structures (IW)

4. Adaptive and Deployable Spatial Structures (IW)

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

• 14/09/2026 – 18/09/2026

IASS and IWSS 2026 joint Conference on shells and spatial structures - Sustainability, Re-Use, and New Design Paradigms Turin, Italy - Co-Chair of the Session Adaptive and Deployable Spatial Structures 

Link https://www.iass-iwss2026.org/

• 28/10/2025 – 01/11/2025

International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures Structures (M & MIMS 2025) , Salerno, Italy

Member of the Workshop Secretariat Link www.multiscale.unisa.it

• 11/07/2024 – 13/07/2024

International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures Structures (M & MIMS 2024), Salerno, Italy

Member of the Workshop Secretariat Link www.multiscale.unisa.it

AFFILIATIONS

• IASS - International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

• IAEC- AdvanceAEC -Research Network for Advancing Architecture, Engineering and Construction

• EUROMECH - European Mechanics Society

• AIMETA- Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata

• INDAM- Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi"

• IStructE -The Institution of Structural Engineers

• IBPSA - International Building Performance Simulation Association

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Research Project as Part of Science and Technology Cooperation Between Italy and The United States of America, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Next-generation green structures for natural disaster-proof building, grant number US23GR15. University of Salerno (Italy), University of Colorado Boulder and University of California Irvine (USA), Period: 01/01/2023-31/12/2025, Member of the research team, Italian PI: Professor Ada Amendola, USA PI:Massimo Ruzzene)

• FARB Projects 2012-2024, University of Salerno, Local funding for basic research, Project Innovative Materials and Structures for Civil Engineering (“Strutture e Materiali Innovativi per l’Ingegneria Civile”), PI: Professor Fernando Fraternali, Member of the Research Team, years 2024 and 2025.

TALKS

• 14/09/2026 - 18/09/2026 Turin, Italy

     A deployable solar membrane roof for stadiums: structural design and modeling

•  02/09/2026 - 04/09/2026 Naples, Italy

     EMI International Conference - Work Presented: Deployable Timber– Cable Roof Structures for Solar-Active Stadiums

• 22/06/2026 – 26/06/2026 Cagliari, Italy

ICCS29 - 29th International Conference on Composite Structures - Work Presented: Tensegrity based design of deployable solar roofs

• 15/06/2026 – 19/06/2026 Como, Italy

lake como school of advanced studies : Dynamics of Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Waves - Poster Presented: On The Nonlinear Wave Dynamics of Tensegrity Chains

• 03/06/2026 – 05/06/2026 Pisa, Italy

GIMC SIMAI YOUNG 2026 - Work Presented: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Arrays of Bistable Tensegrity Prisms

• 28/10/2025 – 01/11/2025 Salerno,Italy  -  International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures Structures (M & MIMS 2025)  - Work Presented: Design and modeling of origami solar windows

• 08/04/2025 Madrid, Spain   -  Your Solar Thesis in 3 Minutes” Contest   -  Work Presented: Tensegrity Structures for Building Integrated Photovoltaics

• 10/02/2025 – 14/02/2025 Brixen, Italy   -  International winter school Materials and technologies for solar energy

Work Presented: Design and Energy Harvesting Capacity of a Tensegrity-Mashrabiya PV Window

• 08/01/2025 Madrid, Spain -  Institute of Solar Energy Seminar – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid   - Work Presented: Building-Integrated Mashrabiya PV Windows with Tensegrity-Origami Architecture Seminar

• 02/09/2024 – 06/09/2024 Naples, Italy    -    XXVI AIMETA Congress    -   Work Presented: On the Mechanical Modelling of Multiscale Deployable Tensegrities

• 11/07/2024 – 13/07/2024 Salerno,Italy   -   Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures (M & MIMS 2024) -  

Work Presented: Tensegrity Systems for Next Generation Solar Structures

• 11/06/2024 – 14/06/2024 Cagliari, Italy  -  3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (ICoNSoM)   - 

 Work Presented: Multiscale Asymmetric Tensegrity Structures

• 11/06/2024 – 14/06/2024 Cagliari,Italy  -  3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (ICoNSoM)   -

Work Presented: Easily Deployed Tensegrity Structures

ACTIVITIES

• 19/09/2026 - 23/09/2026 Turin, Italy

Let’s Shape! summer school / Artificial Intelligence and Parametric Design for Shells and Spatial Structures 

• 17/08/2026 - 21/08/2026 Copenhagen, Denmark - Summer school on Geometry for Digital Fabrication and Architecture - Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science ,Technical University of Denmark

• 20/01/2026 – 21/01/2026 Salerno, Italy - Giornate Signorini

• 09/04/2025 – 11/04/2025 Madrid, Spain  -  Solar architecture essencials :Supsi - Department of Environment Constructions and Design

• 16/09/2024 – 20/09/2024 Udine, Italy   -  CISM advanced school on Tensegrity Systems : From Biomechanics to Mechanical Metamaterials Tensegrity Systems

TEACHING ASSISTANT ACTIVITIES

•  A.A. 2025/26 Teaching Assistant for the course of Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Scienza delle Costruzioni), Bachelor of science degree Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno. Number of TA hours : 20

•  A.A. 2025/26 Teaching Assistant for the course of Rational Mechanics (Meccanica Razionale), Bachelor of science degree Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno. Number of TA hours : 20

•  A.A. 2025/26 Teaching Assistant for the course of Mathematics II (Matematica ll), Bachelor of science degree Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno. Number of TA hours : 20

•  A.A. 2025/26 Teaching Assistant for the course of Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Scienza delle Costruzioni), Bachelor ofscience degree Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering, - Avellino . Number of TA hours : 20

•  A.A. 2025/26 Teaching Assistant in the subject for teaching Fundamentals of Matehamatics ( Fondamenti di Matematica), Bachelor of science degree Course in Techniques for Building Construction and Land Development , University of Salerno- Avellino . Number of TA hours : 20

•   A.A. 2024/25 Teaching Assistant for the course of Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Scienza delle Costruzioni), Bachelor of science degree Course in Civil Engineering, University of Salerno. Number of TA hours : 20

JOURNAL PEER-REVIEW ACTIVITIES

• Results in Engineering

• Building and Environment

• Composite Structures

• Engineering Structures

•  Frontiers of Architectural Research

•  Mechanics Research Communications

•  Nature communications

COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS

• Grasshopper + Rhinoceros 3d

• 3D Modelling

• Computer Aided Design (CAD) - Autodesk (CAD,3Ds MAX)

• Adobe Photoshop

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Mother tongue(s): PERSIAN

• Other language(s): ENGLISH | ITALIAN