Alessandro Reali
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr), University of Pavia
Rector’s Delegate for International Research
Via Ferrata, 3 – 27100 Pavia
Email: alessandro.reali@unipv.it
Phone: +39 0382 985704
After a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Pavia (2001), a Master of Science (2003) in Earthquake Engineering at the ROSE School and the University of Pavia (2003) and a Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering at the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School) of the Istituto Universitario per gli Studi Superiori (IUSS) and the University of Pavia (2005), since 2016 Alessandro Reali is Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia. Since 2018 he is Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia, and since 2019 he is Rector’s Delegate for International Research of the University of Pavia.
He was included in the Highly Cited Researchers list in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014. He received the Bruno Finzi Prize in 2018, the IACM Fellows Award in 2016, the Hans Fischer Fellowship in 2015, and the IACM “John Argyris” Award for Young Scientists in 2014. In 2017 he was appointed Commander of the “Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”. Since 2017 he is Alumnus of the Young Academy of Europe.
Major research interests are the development and analysis of “isogeometric methods”, the development of constitutive models, modeling, and simulation of advanced materials, and the development and use of computational methods for the simulation of 3D printing problems, biomechanical problems, crowd dynamics problems, and geomechanical problems.
He has 119 publications on peer-reviewed international journals, and 13 book chapters. H-index of 35 on Scopus, over 5.900 citations on Scopus.
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Award: Appointed in 2019 TUM Ambassador‘ by the President of the Technical University of Munich.
Award: Included in the 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers, by Clarivate/ISI.
Award: Recipient of the 2018 Bruno Finzi Prize, awarded, on a biennial basis, by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere to recognize an Italian scholar (45 years old or younger) for outstanding research results concerning Rational Mechanics or other strictly related fields.
Award: Included in the 2017 list of Highly Cited Researchers, by Clarivate/ISI.
Award: Appointed Commander (“Commendatore”) of the “Order of Merit of the Italian Republic” by the President of the Italian Republic (“motu proprio”).
Award: Included in the 2016 list of Highly Cited Researchers, by Clarivate/ISI Thomson-Reuters.
Award: Recipient of the 2016 IACM Fellows Award, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) to recognize individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication in areas of Computational Mechanics.
Award: Included in the 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers, by Clarivate/ISI Thomson-Reuters.
Award: Recipient of the 2015 “Hans Fischer” Fellowship, awarded by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to outstanding international scientists who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas.
Award: Recipient of the 2014 IACM “John Argyris” Award for Young Scientists, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) for outstanding accomplishments by a researcher 40 years old or younger.
Award: Included in the 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers, by Clarivate/ISI Thomson-Reuters.
Award: Recipient of the 2013 “AIMETA Junior” Prize for Mechanics of Solids and Structures, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) to young (i.e., under 40) Italian scientists for outstanding research results concerning one of the Association scientific areas.
Award: Recipient of the 2012 “O.C. Zienkiewicz” Award, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) to the best young (i.e., under 40) scientist in the field of Computational Engineering Sciences.
Award: Recipient of the 2010 “Ideas” ERC Starting Grant, considered one of the most prestigious research awards from the European Community. The funded project is entitled ISOBIO – Isogeometric Methods for Biomechanics and more information are available here.
Isogeometric research software: GeoPDEs: a research tool for IsoGeometric Analysis of PDEs, developed in collaboration with C. de Falco and R. Vazquez, is available for free download here.