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Full Professor at Rome "Tor Vergata" University (below called RTVU).
Formed at the School of Sergio Poretti, she developed an original research on History of structural engineering, within the field of Construction History.
Born in 1969, she studied Civil Engineering (1987-1993) and she earned her PhD in 1999 (History of Reinforced Concrete in Italy - 2003: Edoardo Benvenuto Prize).
She was Research Fellow (1999-2001), Assistant Professor (2001 -2005), Associate Professor (2005-2012) and then, since 2013, Professor at RTVU.
Since 2003, she teaches History of Structural Engineering to Architectural Engineering students.
2019-today: Member of the RTVU Research Advisory Board;
2018-today: Member of the Advisory Board for RTVU PhD Programmes;
2018-today: MUR (Ministry of University and Research) Examining commissioner for the ASN-National Scientific Qualification (08/C1);
2014-today: Director of the PhD Program "Civil Engineering";
2018- today: Deputy Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science, RTVU;
2017-2019: Member of the Board for evaluating scientific and A Rank Journals for Anvur (CUN 08, Architecture)
2015- 2017: Member of the Gev08a, charged of the assessment "VQR 2011-2014" by the Anvur (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes)
2013-2018: Coordinator of the 5-years Master degree "Architectural Engineering".
2011-2017: Co-Principal Investigator in the ERC Advanced Grant 2011 funded research "SIXXI - XX Century Structural Engineering: the Italian Contribution", around 1 million euros budget (2012-2017). She directs, with Sergio Poretti, a research group (12 PHD students and Research Fellows) focused on History of Structural Engineering in Italy in XX Century. She is coordinator of Research agreements with public Italian Institutions, for exploitation of archives and heritage (Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports - MIT, ANAS, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, etc.). For more details see: www.sixxi.eu
Curator of exhibitions on the history of Structural Engineering:
- "Pier Luigi Nervi. Architecture as challenge", held in MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, 12/2010 - 04/2011 (Rome issue, with Carlo Olmo and Sergio Poretti);
- "Pier Luigi Nervi for FAO", FAO, Rome, 05/2011-07/2011 (with Sergio Poretti);
- "Strutture romane. Montuori, Musmeci, Nervi", held in MAXXI, Roma, 04/2014-10/2014 (with Margherita Guccione);
- "L'Autostrada del Sole", held in Bologna, Federbeton Pavillion, 50º SAIE, October 2014 and in Rome, CNI, 2016 (with S. Poretti).
2020-today: Member of the Scientific board of the Rank A Journal "Archi"
2018-today: Member of the Scientific board of the Rank A Journal "Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica"
2017-today: Member of the Scientific board of the Rank A Journal "Tema"
2014-today: Director of the series of books: SIXXI - Storia dell'ingegneria strutturale italiana, Gangemi
2015-today: Member of the scientific Board of the "Construction History" series, Ernst & Sohn/Wiley
2014-2017: Member of the Scientific Board of the Journal "Engineering History and Heritage", Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
- Key note Lectures/ Conferences by invitation in Italy (last 5 years):
2021: Register of Engineers of Reggio Emilia;
2020: Register of Engineers of Potenza; Polytechnic University of Milan; Register of Engineers of Reggio Emilia; University of Rome 3; IWSS 2020 (on line); MAXXI/Inuit, Rome; Municipality of Potenza
2019: MAXXI, Rome; University of Napoli "Federico II"; Register of Engineers of Trento; St. John University- Rome Campus; University of Rome 3; Sapienza University of Rome; University of Sannio-Benevento; University of Cassino; University of Bologna; Register of Engineers of Fermo; Polytechnic University of Turin; Polytechnic University of Milan; Ist. Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia; Register of Engineers of Bolzano; Fondazione Inarcassa, Rome; MADE, Milan;
2018: IUAV, Venezia; CNR, Roma; Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza, Roma; University of Rome 3; National Etruscan Museum, Rome; Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona; Register of Architects of Milan;
2017: Polytechnic University of Milan; Meet me tonight, Museo della Scienza, Milan.
- Key note lectures/Conferences by invitation abroad (last 5 years):
05.02.2021: Riccardo Morandi and his bridges, IABSE2020, on line
18.02.2020: The language of structures. The Italian School of Engineering, CentraleLyon, INSA, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Lione (FR)
26.11.2019: Riccardo Morandi and his bridges, Future of Bridges, NCE, London (UK)
26.09.2019: The language of Structures, Int. FIB Symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures, Madrid (ES)
13-14.02.2019: The Italian School of Engineering, Manchester School of Architecture, UK
07.02.2019: Gino Zani, l'ingegnere, Università della Repubblica di San Marino
31.01.2019: The language of structures. The Italian School of Engineering, UPV, Valencia (ES)
25.01.2019: The role of reinforced concrete in the Italian School of Engineering, ETHZ (CH)
30.11.2018: The role of reinforced concrete in the Italian School of Engineering, Lisbona (PT)
22.11.2018: Riccardo Morandi and his bridges, AEC 2018, Inst. Eduardo Torroja, Madrid (ES)
02.10.2018: Giovanni Lombardi nella storia dell'ingegneria strutturale, SUPSI (CH)
13.07.2018: The language of structures. The Italian School of Engineering, 6ICCH Key note lecture, Brussels (BE)
29.06.2018: Engineering the Italian Landscape, Kent University (UK)
01.05.2018: The Italian School of Engineering, Princeton University (USA)
06.11.2017: 20th century Structural Engineering: the Italian contribution, UCL, Brussels (BE)
10.10.2017: Tangenziali, sopraelevate e viadotti, Mendrisio (CH)
14.04.2016: The Italian School of Engineering, ETHZ (CH)
17.10.2012: XX Century Italian Engineering: the works of Pier Luigi Nervi, TU Dresden (DE)
- Radio broadcasting - Wikiradio - Rai Radio 3 - 14:00:
Le Dighe tipo Marcello: 10/12/2020
Il ponte degli Scalzi/E. Miozzi: 28/10/2020
Arturo Danusso: 09/09/2020
Il bombardamento dei ponti: 15/07/2020
Gustavo Colonnetti, 12/05/2020
Il ponte sul Forth, 05/07/2019
Sergio Musmeci, 28/05/2019
L'autostrada Milano-Laghi, 26/03/2019
Silvano Zorzi, 13/03/ 2019
Riccardo Morandi, 25/12/2018
Il Ponte sul Tagliamento, 11/12/2018
Ferdinando Innocenti, 21/06/2018
Il Ponte del Risorgimento, 11/05/2018
Marcello Piacentini, 08/12/2017
L'Autostrada del Sole, 19/05/2017
Pier Luigi Nervi, 09/01/2017
TV documentaries:
- Pantheon, Unearthed, Science Channel, 18/11/2020
- Pier Luigi Nervi, Art Night, Rai5, 13/03/2020
- Cemento: Viaggio nell'Italia del dopoguerra, Interview and historical advisor, "La Grande Storia", Rai Tre, 27/09/2019
- When bridges collapse: the Genoa Disaster, Interview and historical advisor, Windfall Films, directed by Martin Gorst, BBC, BBC Two, 12/08/2019
-Phd Tutor (thesis already discussed):
(XXXII cycle) A. Sisti, Struttura e Forma nella sperimentazione di Sergio Musmeci
(XXXI cycle) C. Di Pietro, La tutela del patrimonio di ingegneria strutturale in Italia. Un censimento e un catalogo
(XXX cycle) F. Cammarata, La Sicilia e la Scuola italiana di Ingegneria. Una storia nella Storia
(XXIX cycle) E. Alessandrelli, Tre storie di ponti ad arco nella Scuola italiana di ingegneria del '900
(XXVIII cycle) I. Palazzi, Il contributo italiano alla Scienza e alla Tecnica delle costruzioni (1860-1930)
(XXVIII cycle) O. Nasef, The bridge over El Kuf Valley in Libya
(XXVII cycle) I. Blandino, I viadotti di Silvano Zorzi. Sperimentazioni strutturali e costruttive tra gli anni Sessanta e gli anni Settanta
(XXV cycle) K. Trakulyingcharoen, Seagram Building a New York. Architettura e costruzione (cotutor)
(XXIV cycle) I. Giannetti, Costruire la scuola. Progetto e produzione in Italia dal dopoguerra agli anni '80 (cotutor)
(XXIV cycle) A. Pietrantonio, La muratura armata. Il Pantheon a Parigi, la Mole a Torino, il Palazzo di Giustizia a Roma (cotutor)
(XXIV cycle) F. Tozzi, Leonardo Savioli: architettura e costruzione
(XXI cycle) C. Matan, Il palazzo di rappresentanza a Zagabria negli anni Trenta. Architettura, costruzione e conservazione
(XX cycle) P. La Franca, La palazzina romana dal 1945 al 1965. Architettura e Costruzione
- Phd Tutor (thesis under discussion):
(XXXVI ciclo) M. Ocone; (XXXIV ciclo) F. Argenio; (XXXIII cycle) C. Nuzzolese;
Responsabilities on research projects funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN, Project of Relevant National Interest) about Italian Construction History.
These include:
- "Modern Construction in Italy: Procedures and Techniques for Conservation and Restoration" (PRIN, 1998-2000);
- "Modern Construction in Italy: INA-Casa Housing Properties (1949-1963). Procedures and techniques for conservation and restoration" (PRIN, 2000-2002);
- "Modern Italian Architecture in the Thirities and Fourties. A Manual for Conservation and Restoration" (PRIN, 2003-2005);
- "Architectural Construction in Post-war Italy (1945-65). Conservation and Restoration Techniques and Procedures" (PRIN, 2006-2008);
- "Industrial Construction in Italy 1960-1980. Methods and Techniques for Conservation and Exploitation" (PRIN, 2010-2012).
Engagement in a number of applied research projects, financed by public and private agencies to conserve and restore important architectural works of the twentieth century. In particular, the most recent include:
- Conservative Restoration of the Bridge over the Basento river in Potenza by Sergio Musmeci, 1967-1975: Scientific support to the RUP of the Municipality of Potenza, 2019-todaly;
- The Ferroconcrete Magliana Pavillion in Rome by Pier Luigi Nervi, for which, with the sponsorization of Italcementi Group, in 2013 has been curated the restoration of the ferroconcrete walls and roof.
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