BRIGHENTI Roberto

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assoc. Prof. of Structural Mechanics, 2014-
- Assistant Prof. of Structural Mechanics, 1998-2014

EDUCATION
- Ph.D., in Mechanics of Structures (Univ. of Bologna, Italy, 1997).
- Bsc. & M.Sc. (Laurea) with Summa cum laude' in Civil Engng, Univ. of Parma (1993).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching of M.Sc. and Bsc. course such as:
- Computational Mechanics, 2000-.
- Mech. of Mater. and Fract., 2000-2010
- Strength of Mater. (mech eng),2002-2012
- Structural Architecture (arch.), 2014-.

- Advisor of about 80 MSc thesis.
- Advisor of 3 PhDs

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
* Editorial activities:
- EB member ‘Computers, Materials & Continua’ (Tech Science Press), 2018-
- EB member ‘Thin-Walled Structures’ (Elsevier), 2014-.
- Associate Editor ‘Computational Materials Science’ (Frontiers ed.), 2017-
- EB member ‘Int. Journal of Fatigue’ (Elsevier), 2001-2007.
- Editor-in-Chief ‘Journal of Civil Engineering Research’ (Scientific & Academic Publ.), 2012-.
- EB member ‘Modeling and Num. Simul. of Material Science’ (Scientific Research Publ.), 2011-.
- EB member ‘Journal of Engineering’ (Hindawi Publ.), 2010-.

* Reviewer of projects for the:
- Austrian National Council
- Slovenian Research Agency

* Responsible for the research project: ‘Development and optimisation of a joint connection system for precast coating panels with high thermal insulation properties’. Ministry for Foreign Trade – ICE-MISE-CRUI, 2011.

* Visiting prof. Univ Colorado, Boulder (USA), 2016
* Visiting prof. Univ Dortmund, Germany, 2017
* Visiting prof. Univ Colorado, Boulder (USA), 2018

* Reviewer of more than 250 papers for about 60 int. Journals such as: Eng. Fract. Mech., J. Fatigue, J. Mech. Sci., Comm. Num. Meth. Eng., J. Sol. & Struct, Thin-Walled Struct., Fat. Fract. Eng. Mat. Struct., Comp. Struct., Mat. & Des., J. Mech. Sci., Comp. part B, Theor. Appl. Fract. Mech., J. Mech. Phys. Sol., Computer Meth. App. Mech. Eng., …

* Member of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS).
* Member of the Int. Association of Engineers (IAENG) IAENG, 2010-

* Author and co-author of about 190 scientific papers published in Int. Journals and conferences.