Academic & Scientific Service
Activities supporting technical standards, research infrastructure, peer review, scientific dissemination and the structural engineering community.
National roles
Technical expert within the Commission for the revision of the Italian Technical Standards for Construction (NTC 2018), Assessment / Verification subgroup — Chapter 4, with reference to steel and steel–concrete composite structures.
Member of the Scientific Council, acting as University of Camerino representative for activities related to seismic risk.
Member of the working group dedicated to experimental structural facilities, contributing to requirements for reaction walls, static and pseudo-dynamic testing systems, measurement technologies and experimental data acquisition.
Editorial activity
Editorial Board Member · Springer Nature.
Editorial Board Member · Wiley.
Editorial Board Member · MDPI.
Editorial Board Member · Salehan Institute of Higher Education.
Editorial Board Member · World Scientific Publishing Co
Editorial Board Member · Sanderman Publishing House
Editorial Board Member · Bilingual Publishing Co
Editorial Board Member · Wiley.
Peer review
Reviewer for more than 100 manuscripts submitted to international journals in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, structural dynamics and related fields.
Structures (Elsevier), Engineering Structures (Elsevier), Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (Springer), Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor & Francis), SN Applied Sciences (Springer), Shock and Vibration (Wiley), Advances in Civil Engineering (Wiley), Frontiers in Built Environment, Applied Sciences (MDPI), Sensors (MDPI), CivilEng (MDPI), Infrastructures (MDPI), Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (ScienceDirect), Journal of Building Engineering (ScienceDirect), Advances in Engineering Software (ScienceDirect), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Elsevier)
Scientific dissemination
Chair, session on dynamic behaviour of existing bridges · Rome.
Co-organiser, Special Session Hydraulic Risk of Arch Bridges · Genoa.
Organising Committee, 1st International Workshop on Inspection, Testing, Monitoring, Assessment and Maintenance of Masonry Arch Bridges · Padova.
Organiser and Chair, symposium Safety and Maintenance of Masonry Arch Bridges: Diagnostic, Monitoring, Modelling, Risk Analysis and Retrofit Interventions · Milan.
Organiser and Chair, symposium Risk Assessment of Bridges and Road Networks Subjected to Natural Hazards.
Symposium and session organisation, chairmanship and conference organising activities on structural reliability, seismic protection and steel structures.
Invited lectures
Invited lecture at the 1st International Workshop on Inspection, Testing, Monitoring, Assessment and Maintenance of Masonry Arch Bridges.
Presentation at the final HYCAD project workshop, Verona.
Invited contribution to the workshop New perspectives in seismic risk assessment and resilience enhancement, Camerino.