Diego Misseroni

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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      

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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:  Assistant Professor (RTDA – RTDB), University of Trento, DICAM, Italy.

01/2015-03/2016:  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Trento, DICAM, Italy.

01/2014-12/2014:  Marie Curie Experienced Research Associate , University of Liverpool, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UK.

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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 mechanics.

The extended version of the CV is available here or on his webpage. 

RESEARCH AWARDS

• 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
• 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
• 2017 AIMETA Junior Prize in Solid and Structural Mechanics, Salerno (Italy), 2017
• 2023 Best Paper Award, AIDDA XXVII International Congress 2023, Padova, Italy
• 2023 Award of Best Video in Gallery of Nonlinear Dynamics, IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan

TEACHING AWARDS

• 2023 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award, University of Trento, Italy
• 2019 DICAM Teaching Excellence Award, University of Trento, Italy

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.