Massimo Carraturo is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna (2012), a Master of Science with Honors in Computational Mechanics from the Technische Universität München (2016), and a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials (2020) obtained as a joint degree (cotutelle) between the University of Pavia and the Technische Universität München.

His research focuses on numerical methods for the simulation of metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing processes, the numerical characterization of the mechanical performance of powder-bed-printed components, and uncertainty quantification for additive manufacturing. Before his current position, he held a fixed-term Assistant Professor position (RTDa) and post-doctoral appointments at the Chair for Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials of the University of Pavia.

He has authored 22 journal articles and 3 book chapters, with an h-index of 16 and over 830 citations (Scopus).

Awards, Honours and Appointments

Sep 2024 Winner of the AIMETA Junior Award 2024 in Solid and Struc-tural Mechanics.

Nov 2020 Winner of the Poster Award of the International CAE Con-ference and Exhibition, Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2020.

Oct 2020 – present Representative of the research fellows in the Council of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia.
Jul 2018 Winner of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) award to attend the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, New York City, USA, 22-27 July, 2018.

Mar – Jun 2018 Guest scientist at the Oskar von Miller Forum (Munich, Germany).
Apr 2014 – Apr 2016 Member of the Bavarian Graduate School of
Computational Engineering – Elitenetzwerk Bayern
BGCE homepage
Thesis title: “Lagrange Multipliers in Contact Mechanics
using the Finite Cell Method.”
Supervisor: Dipl.-Ing. Tino Bog

Oct 2007 – Oct 2008 Student representative at the Liceo Scientifico Augusto Righi, Bologna.