Diego Misseroni

Full professor

Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering

Via Mesiano, 77 - 38123 Trento

tel. 0461 282684 | 0461 282555

diego.misseroni[at]unitn [dot] it

Expertise:

Building science

Civil engineering

Composite materials

Finite element analysis

Fracture mechanics

Parametric design

Solid mechanics

Special structures

Strengthening of unreinforced masonry

Structural glass facades

Structural mechanics

Tensile structures

Timber structures

	Education
	The extended version of the CV is available here or on his webpage. 2013 Ph.D., University of Trento, Italy PhD. in Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems Dissertation title: Experimental models of elastic structures: tensile buckling and Eshelby-like forces. Supervisor: D. Bigoni 2010 Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering - Structures, 110/110 cum laude, University of Trento, Italy
	Academic career and teaching activities
	The extended version of the CV is available here or on his webpage. Academic positions 01/2024-Present: Full Professor, University of Trento, DICAM, Italy. 04/2022-12/2023: Associate Professor, University of Trento, DICAM, Italy. 04/2016–03/2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Trento, DICAM, Italy. 04/2016–03/2022: Marie Curie Experienced Research Associate , University of Liverpool, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UK.
	Research interests
	The extended version of the CV is available here or on his webpage. The research interests are in the field of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures and include: Architected materials, metamaterials and origami engineering; buckling and instabilities of structures undergoing large deformations and subjected to "dead" and "live" loading; fracture mechanics and contact mechanic
	Awards and honours
	The extended version of the CV is available here or on his webpage. 2025 SES Huajian Gao Young Investigator Medal, Society of Engineering Science, USA 2024 Thomas J. R. Hughes (ASME) Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA 2023 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award, University of Trento, Italy 2022 Zwick Roell Science Award, ZwickRoell, Germany 2022 Paul Roell Medal, ZwickRoell, Germany 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council 2022 EML Young Investigator Award, Extreme Mechanics Letters Team - Elsevier 2022 Fulbright fellowship - Research Scholar, the US - Italy Fulbright Commission 2022 Trentino Research Award - Young Researchers, PAT - Italy 2019 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award, University of Trento, Italy 2017 AIMETA Junior Prize in Solid and Structural Mechanics, Salerno (Italy), 2017 11 Covers of International Journals 1 frontispiece of Advanced Materials, 1 back cover of Advanced Science, 2 cover of Materials Today, 1 cover of Extreme Mechanics Letters, and 6 covers of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.