December 2016 – August 2018: Member of the National Committee for the Habilitation process to Professor in Structural Engineering.
January 2018: Co-founder of the Institute for Safety and Security Sciences, The University of Trento (ISSTN). Via Vigilio Inama, 5, 38122 Trento TN, Italy.
May 2014: Co-founder of the start-up I-kubed http://www.i-kubed.com/en/ . It was initially devoted to structural health monitoring of civil engineering buildings. In the medium term, it will be used for health monitoring of civil/mechanical infrastructure systems.
March 2013-October 2015: Deputy head at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical and Engineering of the University of Trento.
September 2007: defence of a Ph.D. thesis titled “Analysis of control techniques and development of numerical methods for heterogeneous simulations with dynamic substructuring” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol. Best research Thesis Prize.
February-July 2005: period of study and research at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, in collaboration with David Stoten.
July 2004: period of study and research at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in collaboration with Prof. Robert Tremblay.
June 2003: period of study and research at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses LAMI Marne-La-Vallèe, in collaboration with Prof. Nelly Point.
February 2003-February 2005: Co-ordinator of the Ph. D. Programme in Modelling, Conservation and Control of Materials and Structures at the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering of the University of Trento.
November 2001-October 2006: Deputy head at the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering of the University of Trento.
July 2001: Professor of Structural Dynamics and Control at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento.
August 1999: period of study and research at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausses LCPC-CNRS Marne-La-Vallèe, in collaboration with Dr. Pierre Argoul.
February 1999: Co-designer of The Materials and Structural Testing Laboratory (LPMS), which is the largest university facility with biaxial reaction wall in Europe http://web.unitn.it/dicam/7275/materials-and-structural-testing . It has been actively used for testing of industrial components and devices.
September 1998: Associate professor of Structural Analysis and Design at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento.
September 1995: study and research period at the Department MSM, Université de Liège in collaboration with prof. Rene Maquoi and dr. Jean-Pierre Jaspart; and at the Laboratoire de Techniques Aeronautiques et Spatiales, Université de Liège in collaboration with prof. Michel Geradin.
September 1992 – November 1992: study and research period at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder in collaboration with prof. Pui-Shum B. Shing; the collaboration continues also in the summers 1993 and 1994.
June 1992: study and research period at the Department MS M, Université de Liège in collaboration with prof. Rene Maquoi and dr. Jean-Pierre Jaspart.
September 1990 – October 1991: study and research period at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder (under the guide of profs K. H. Gerstle and Pui-Shum B. Shing).
July 1990: National Research Council (CNR) fellowship to spend a period of study in a foreign university.
1986: Assistant Professor in Structural Analysis and Design, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento.
November 1985 – May 1986: activity both in industry and in a design office.
May 1984, Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Padua University with the voting of 110/110 and praise.