Keynote Lectures 

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"From Masonry Block Structures to Composite Material Bridge Engineering"

Prof. Nicola Nisticò

Associate Professor, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering

University of Roma “LA SAPIENZA”

Prof. Nicola Nisticò, born in 1961, has graduated in engineering at the University "LA SAPIENZA" of Roma. He has obtained the PhD at the University of Firenze in 1994 (Thesis title: Structural behaviour of “Block Masonry”: experiments and numerical investigation). During and after the PhD studies he has been Researcher at the National Group for Seismic Defend GNDT where he has been involved in seismic vulnerability evaluation of existing structures. Since 1997 was assistant professor of structural engineering at the University of Roma “LA SAPIENZA” where in 2005 attained the title of associated professor. In 2020 attained the National Scientific Qualification to function as full professor of Structural Engineering in Italian Universities.

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"Wind-induced vibrations on flexible structures"

Dr. Fabio Rizzo

Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering

Polytechnic University of Bari

Fabio Rizzo (Ten adres pocztowy jest chroniony przed spamowaniem. Aby go zobaczyć, konieczne jest włączenie w przeglądarce obsługi JavaScript.), PhD, is Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. In 2022, he holds the position of Assistant Professor at Cracow University of Technology, Chair of Bridge, Metal and Timber Structures/L-3, Cracow, Poland, and from 2018 to 2021, the position of Researcher at the Department of Engineering and Geology, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy. In 2021, he obtained the scholarship by NAWA (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) at the Wind energy laboratory of the Cracow University of Technology. He was visiting researcher at the Northeastern University in Boston (U.S.A.), at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, (U.S.A.), at the Columbia University in New York City (U.S.A.) and at the West Ontario University, London Ontario, Canada. He is a member of ANIV (The Italian Association for Wind Engineering), IAWE (the International Association of Wind Engineering) and of the CRIACIV (Interuniversity Research Center of Construction Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering). he recently won two ERIES projects and he is involved in several EU projects (SERA, Horizon 2020 and COST ACTION). He was involved in the writing of the CNR (National Research Council of Italy) n.207-DT documentation in which his original data has been incorporated. His graduation thesis in Architecture was awarded by the Costruzioni Metalliche journal as the best thesis in Engineering and Architecture for the year 2005. In 2012, one of his publications has received the special mention from The Italian Association for Wind Engineering award. His research interest areas are: structural dynamics, flexible structures, dynamic identification and wind engineering.