Loughborough University

Faculty Member, Civil and Building Engineering

Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering

Thesis Title: "Predizione del picco massimo della risposta strutturale" (in Italian)

About

Born in Messina (Italy) in February 1975, Dr Alessandro Palmeri has received his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy) in May 2003, defending a thesis on Stochastic Mechanics. After a four-month research scholarship at the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), he has been a Research Fellow at the University of Messina from September 2003 to September 2007 and an Adjunct Lecturer in the same institution for the academic year 2006-07. In October 2007, he joined the University of Bradford (England) as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering (equivalent to Assistant Professor), also completing with distinction a post-graduate certificate in Higher Education Practice.

Over the same years, Alessandro has been visiting PhD student at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and at the University of California at Berkeley, and visiting Research Fellow at the University of Patras (Greece). He has received in Cambridge (Massachusetts) the Young Researcher Fellowship Award for Exemplary Research in Computational Mechanics in occasion of the 3rd MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (June 2005). He has also successfully co-supervised three PhD students on different topics of Structural Dynamics.

In January 2010, Alessandro has been appointed as a Lecturer in Structural Engineering within the Department (now School) of Civil and Building Engineering (CBE) at Loughborough University (England), where he currently teaches Structural Mechanics and Structural Design, and in February 2012 he has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor). The University has about 3,000 employees and 17,000 students, a growing reputation for both teaching and research, strong links with a wide range of public and private sector bodies, and nearly half of its income is from research; while the School is one of the British largest multi-disciplinary engineering institutes, and the latest national independent assessment revealed that more than 90% of its research is of international standard.

Alessandro has published more than sixty technical papers in monographic books, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings (21 listed in ISI Web of Knowledge), which have enjoyed more than 100 citations worldwide, with an h-index of 7.

Since 1999, Alessandro is registered as a chartered Civil Engineer in Italy. Since 2001, he participates in various national and international research projects, especially in the field of Wind and Earthquake Engineering. Since 2004, he serves as member of editorial boards in national and international conferences, and as regular reviewer for leading technical journals. Since 2011, he is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, and a member of the UK Wind Engineering Society and of the British Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics.

Alessandro is currently co-supervising four doctoral students (two PhDs and two EngDs, co-sponsored by major companies in the precast concrete industry and in the renewable energy sector), and he is leading three research grants as Principal Investigator, including the EPSRC project on the dynamic analysis of composite beams with nano-enhanced viscoelastic core, worth £125k (ie about €150k).

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