Curriculum Vitae
Giovanni Castellazzi — Associate Professor, University of Bologna
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Current position
Associate Professor — Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna. Since 2021.
President — AICO, Italian Association of Composites for Civil Engineering Applications. Since 2023. aico-compositi.it
Faculty member — PhD Programme in Engineering and Information Technology for Structural and Environmental Monitoring and Risk Management (EIT4SEMM), University of Bologna. Since 2022.
Registered Engineer — Engineers Register of the Province of Modena, Italy. Since 2002.
National scientific qualification
| Period | Qualification |
|---|---|
| 2025–2035 | Full Professor — CEAR-06/A, Mechanics of Solids and Structures |
| 2017–2023 | Associate Professor — SSD 08/B2, Solid Mechanics |
Education
| Period | |
|---|---|
| 2009–2010 | Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering — Multi-level schemes for explicit dynamics to track elastic/acoustic waves |
| 2008–2009 | Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering — Assumed-strain elements for incompressible media and plates |
| 2004–2007 | PhD in Structural Mechanics, University of Bologna |
| 2001 | Laurea in Civil Engineering (5-year degree, major in Structural Design), University of Bologna |
Academic appointments
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| 2021–present | Associate Professor, DICAM, University of Bologna |
| 2018–2021 | Senior Assistant Professor (RTDb, tenure track), DICAM, University of Bologna |
| 2001–2018 | Laboratory Technician Support Specialist, DICAM (formerly DISTART), University of Bologna |
Service
Programme and committee roles
| Period | Role |
|---|---|
| 2021–2023 | Committee member, Intake Committee, MSc in Historic Building Rehabilitation |
| 2021–2022 | Committee member, PhD Intake Committee, Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (37th cycle, effective member) |
| 2020–2021 | Committee member, PhD Intake Committee, Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (36th cycle, alternate member) |
| 2019–2023 | Programme Secretary, MSc in Civil Engineering |
| 2019–2023 | Committee member, Intake Committee, MSc in Civil Engineering |
| 2019–2020 | Committee member, University inventory discharge commission, University of Bologna |
Learned societies
| Period | Society |
|---|---|
| 2023–present | President, AICO — Italian Association of Composites for Civil Engineering Applications |
| 2019–2023 | Vice-President, AICO |
| 2014–present | Member, AICO — aico-compositi.it |
| 2019–present | Staff member, RILEM — International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures — rilem.net |
| 2018–present | Member, EUROMECH — European Mechanics Society |
| 2018–present | Member, SISCO — Italian Society of Solid Mechanics |
| 2011–present | Member, AIMETA — Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics — aimeta.it |
| 2009–2011 | Member, ISSNAF — Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation |
| 2012 | Member, SPIE — International Society for Optics and Photonics |
Supervision
Doctoral theses
2022–2025 · Advisor — Innovative eco-sustainable materials for the energy and seismic improvement of civil buildings. PhD Programme EIT4SEMM. Candidate: Nicolò Lo Presti.
2015–2018 · Co-advisor — Micro-modelling of masonry structures. PhD Programme in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering. Candidate: Antonio Maria D’Altri.
Research positions
2020–2021 · Advisor — Research grant on Existing Building Information Modeling for the management of interventions on existing buildings, funded under the eBIM project (POR-FESR, Emilia-Romagna Region). Researcher: Nicolò Lo Presti.
Sept–Dec 2021 · Advisor — Visiting researcher from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, on Effective modeling of complex unreinforced masonry buildings. Researcher: Dr Nino Tabatadze.
Teaching
University of Bologna, academic year 2026/2027.
| Code | Course unit | Degree programme |
|---|---|---|
| 72782 | Mechanics of Historical Masonry Structures — 6 CFU | MSc in Building Engineering–Architecture · MSc in Civil Engineering |
| 72772 | Computational Structural Mechanics M (module 2) | MSc in Civil Engineering |
| B4954 | Structural Mechanics T with Laboratory (module 2) | BSc in Architecture–Engineering |
Course units and exam sessions are listed on my University of Bologna teaching page.
Mechanics of Historical Masonry Structures is taught with aLOTofImaginArches, an interactive tool I wrote for the course: students load a photograph of a real arch, trace its geometry and move the line of thrust through its three degrees of freedom, checking joint by joint whether it stays inside the masonry.
Contact
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) University of Bologna · Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy giovanni.castellazzi@unibo.it