Antonio Maria D'Altri

CURRENT POSITION

• 10/01/2025 Associate Professor
  Academic discipline: CEAR-06/A Mechanics of Solids and Structures. Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Italy.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 10/01/2022 - 09/01/2025 Senior assistant professor
  Academic discipline: ICAR/08, Structural Mechanics. Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Italy.

• 10/01/2022- 09/01/2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow
  Global fellowship: 18-month outgoing phase at Princeton University, 6-month secondment at the University of Minho, and 12-month return phase at University of Bologna.

• 10/07/2023 – 09/01/2024 Visiting fellow (secondment)
  Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, with the project HOLAHERIS "A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation", Supervisor: Prof Paulo Lourenço
• 10/01/2022 – 09/07/2023 Visiting fellow (outgoing phase)
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Princeton University, USA, with the project HOLAHERIS "A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation", Supervisor: Prof Branko Glisic

• 01/11/2018 – 09/01/2022 Postdoc research fellow
  Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Italy, Research project: “Advanced mechanical modeling of new materials and structures for the solution of 2020 Horizon challenges”, Supervisor: Prof Stefano de Miranda

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• AY 2020/2021 Adjunct professor, course “Computational Mechanics (Module 2)”, 24-hour course, International Master in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.
• AY 2019/2020 Adjunct professor, course “Computational Mechanics (Module 2)”, 24-hour course, International Master in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• 2021 3-year Global fellowship Marie Skłodowska-Curie (269k€) for the HOLAHERIS project - "A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation" - which involves a 18-month outgoing phase at Princeton University (US), a 6-month secondment at Universidade do Minho (PT) and a 12-month return phase at University of Bologna.
• 17/10/2016 Poster Award Winner (1000€ award), 32nd International CAE Conference 2016, Parma, Italy. Poster title: Advanced numerical modeling of historical monumental buildings

EDUCATION

• 01/11/2015 – 04/04/2019 PhD in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering
  (awarded with “excellence” on 04/04/2019), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Italy
  PhD thesis: “Advances in Computational Analysis of Masonry Structures”
  Supervisor: Prof Stefano de Miranda, Co-supervisor: Dr Giovanni Castellazzi
• 15/02/2018 – 03/06/2018 Visiting research period at Delft University of Technology
  Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Supervisor: Prof Jan G. Rots
• 18/09/2017 – 18/12/2017 Visiting research period at Newcastle University
  School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK
  Supervisor: Dr Vasilis Sarhosis
• 20/08/2013 – 16/07/2015 Master of Science in Civil Engineering
  (awarded cum laude on 16/07/2015) University of Bologna, Italy
  Master thesis: “An advanced finite element model generation method for the structural analysis of historical monumental buildings” Subject: Computational Structural Mechanics
  Supervisor: Prof Stefano de Miranda, Co-supervisor: Dr Giovanni Castellazzi
• 07/09/2010 – 19/07/2013 Bachelor in Building Construction Engineering
  (awarded cum laude on 19/07/2013) University of Bologna, Italy