Pasquale Gallo

University of Padova

• February 2016, Ph.D. in Mechatronics and Product Innovation Engineering (Ph.D. program: Mechanics of Materials)
• 2012, Master's Degree in Product Innovation Engineering (Mech. Engineering)
• 2010, Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Academic Career

University of Trento (Italy)

• Assistant Professor, January 2024-present, Department of Industrial Engineering

Uponor Suomi Oy (Finland)

• July 2022-December 2023, Senior Technology Specialist: Structural Engineering, R&D

Aalto University (Finland)

• January 2023-December 2023, Academic Visitor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• January 2019-December 2022, Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher (PI), Department of Mechanical Engineering
• April-November 2016, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Kyoto University (Japan)

• December 2016-December 2018, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science

Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

• March 2026, Visiting Researcher

Teaching

• Teacher assistant of "Thin-walled structures" course (second cycle degree, 5 ECTS), Aalto University (2021).
• Teacher in charge of "Fatigue of structure" course (second cycle degree, 5 ECTS), Aalto University (2019).
• Lecturer of "Design through Ansys code" course (second cycle degree, 6 ECTS), Padova University (2014, 2015).
• Lecturing support in the course "Mechanics of Materials and Fracture Mechanics (second cycle degree, 9 ECTS), Padova University (2014, 2015).
• Lecturing support in the course of "Machine Design and Structural Analyses" ( rst cycle degree, 6 ECTS), Padova University (2013, 2014, 2015).
• Invited Lecture "JSPS Science Dialogue Program", Okazaki School, Japan, (2017). -Invited Lecture "Fracture Nanomechanics", Kyushu University (2017).

• Structural and topological optimization of mechanical components, based on developing cellular architecture metamaterials and experimental techniques for mechanical characterization at micro, meso, and macroscopic scales.
• Multiscale models for the fatigue assessment of engineering applications: experimental investigation of fatigue and fracture at micro, nano and atomic scale.
• Fatigue of structures

Awarded research projects as PI:

• “Multiscale models for the fatigue assessment of engineering applications: experimental investigation of fatigue mechanisms at micro and nanoscale”, Academy of Finland, May 2019, Grant Number 321244 (377417 €)
• “Unified fracture mechanics in micro- and nano-materials based on Strain Energy Density Criterion”, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, August 2016, Grant Number P16366

• Member of the Organizing Committee "International Symposium on Fatigue Design
  and Material Defects", Trento, Italy, 2025
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Third International Conference on Theoretical, Applied and Experimental Mechanics (ICTAEM 3)", Athens, Greece, 2020. Organizer and chair of the session "Fracture Nanomechanics".
• Member of the International Scientific Committee ESIAM 2019.
• Chairman at "1st International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, and Experimental Mechanics", Paphos, Cyprus, 2018.
• Chairman at "71st IIW International Conference" 2018, Bali, Indonesia.
• Chairman at "44th National Conference AIAS", Italy, 2015;

National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system, 19/12/2023-19/12/2034