Matteo Benedetti

• PhD: Materials Engineering, University of Trento, Italy

• Master degree: Materials Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, score 110 out 110 cum laude 

• High School Diploma: “Maturità Scientifica” (Math, Science, Italian, German), Liceo Scientifico “”E. Torricelli”, Bolzano – Bozen, score 60 out 60  

• 2015-present: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy
• 2007-2015: Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore confermato nel settore scientifico disciplinare Progettazione Meccanica e Costruzione di Macchine, ING-IND14”) at the Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento, Italy 
• 2003-2007: Post-doctoral student at the Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento, Ital
• October 2006: Visiting Researcher at the European Space Research and Technolgy Centre (ESTEC), ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
• 2000-2004: PhD student at the Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento, Italy
• 2002-2003: Visiting Researcher at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Technologies, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• 1999-2000: Master degree thesis in the frame of the exchange programme “Erasmus” at the Gear Research Centre (FZG), Technical University Munich, Germany 
• Holds courses in "Mechanical Design and Machine Elements" and "Modeling and Design with Finite Elements", Master Degrees in Materials and Mechatronics Engineering.

• Fatigue and fracture of metallic materials
• Shot peening, residual stresses
• Wear, adhesion, contact mechanics
• Fracture mechanics, weight functions
• Additive manufacturing; Structural integrity of AM components
• Structural Integrity and Design; Structures
• Numerical analysis of products and processes

• Effect of shot peening on the fatigue resistance of Al alloys
• Structural integrity of AM components
• 3D printed metallic foams for biomedical applications: understanding and improving their mechanical behavior
• Reconstruction of the residual stress field in complex geometries
• Theory of critical distances for prediction of fatigue life
• Effect of lubrication on fatigue cracks originated under rolling-sliding contact fatigue
•  Numerical simulation of tube forming, shot peening, selective laser melting

2011-2013: Chair of the Technical Division "Residual Stresses", Society for Experimental Mechanics

• “Fellowship award for exemplary research in computational mechanics” ottenuto per la presentazione del lavoro “Behavior of small cracks emanating from notches in Ti-6Al-4V” conferito dal Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) nell’ambito del congresso internazionale “Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics”, svoltosi a Cambridge (USA) il 17-20 giugno 2003.

• Premio Capocaccia 2008 conferito dall'Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi delle Sollecitazioni