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HISTORIC MASONRY STRUCTURES 

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TEACHERS

Maurizio Angelillo

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Professor at Università degli Studi di Salerno

Maurizio Angelillo is Professor of Statics and Strength of Materials at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the “Università degli Studi di Salerno”. Architect and structural expert with multi-disciplinary research interests including masonry mechanics, and Biomechanics, trained in Architecture at the University of Neaples and in Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, he and his group are actively working on the kinematics and on the equilibrium of masonry buildings. Angelillo, who is the Editor and the co-author of the CISM books “Mechanics of Masonry Structures” and “Discrete Computational Mechanics of Masonry Structures”, works on unilateral models for masonry since the early 80s, being the author of more than 50 papers on the application of these models to real masonry structures and masonry elements such as arches, domes, vaults and spiral stairs.

Philippe Block

Professor at ETH Zurich

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Alessio Bortot

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Professor at Università di Trieste

Alessio Bortot, an Architect and a “Doctor Europaeus” since 2016 in Architecture, City and Design, with a specialization in Representation, is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture in the University of Trieste since 2021.

He has been professor for the course of “Descriptive geometry”, “Advanced technologies for representation” and “Digital 3D modelling” at the IUAV University of Venezia, at the faculty of Engineering of the University of Padova, at the IED of Venice and at the École National Supérieure des Travaux Publics in Yaoundé (Camerun). He has participated to national (PRIN 2010-2011) and international research projects (James Turrell. Roden Crater Project – Florence 2007; Jean François Niceron. Prospettiva, catottrica e magia artificiale – Rome 2013.

Gianmarco de Felice

Professor at Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Gianmarco de Felice is professor of structural engineering at the Department of Engineering of Roma Tre University. He is coordinator of the PhD school in Civil Engineering at Roma Tre University, chairmen of the RILEM Technical Committee TC-250 CSM “Composites for Sustainable strengthening of Masonry” and member of the drafting Committee of the Charter of Rome on the Resilience of Art Cities to Natural Catastrophes. He has been the scientific coordinator for the design of engineering projects on heritage conservation and structural rehabilitation, such as the restoration of the Farnese Palace in Ischia di Castro and that of the Abbey of San Clemente in Casauria supported by the World Monuments Fund and awarded by the Domus International Prize for Restoration and Conservation.

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Paula Fuentes González

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Professor at Universidad de Alcalà

Rosa Ana Guerra

Professor at Escola Técnica Superior de Santiago de Compostela

Rosa Ana Guerra is PhD Architect and Master in Architectural Restoration. Professor of Engineering Graphics at the Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería in Santiago de Compostela. Researcher in masonry structures, focused on the use of the state-of-the-art techniques for metric survey of architectural heritage. Member of the Spanish Construction History Society, and an active participant in national and international congresses on Construction History. She is the founder, together with Paula Fuentes, of the metric survey and analysis report of architectural heritage association villard3d.

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Santiago Huerta

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Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Santiago Huerta is a professor of Structural Design at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). President of the Spanish Construction History Society (SEDHC). Work as consultant for Historical Constructions Analysis (Cathedrals of Mallorca; Santiago de Compostela; Lonja de Mallorca; San Juan de los Reyes, etc.). Director of publications of the Juan de Herrera Institute. Author of more than 80 publications: books (editor), articles and papers, mainly on historic masonry structures and Construction History. Prize for the ‘Dissemination of Architecture’ related to the Exhibition and Catalog Guastavino Co. the Reinvention of the Vault (COAM), 2003. Telford Gold Medal of the British Civil Engineers Association London, 2011.

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John Ochsendorf

Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Carlos Martín

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Vault builder and master plasterer, he has been involved in the construction and restoration of more than 300 vaults to date. He is the founder of Bóvedas Hispanas, a company specializing in the construction and restoration of vaults, working on numerous projects, including some of the most important in Spain in the last 30 years. He is a Professor of vault workshops at a national and international level and the author of several publications on plaster and vaulted structures.

Outstanding works. Vaulted vault in the Chapel of the Seminary of the Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid); Structural vaults of the Aljibe of the castle of Jadraque (Guadalajara) and in the cellar of the Valdemonjas de Quintanilla (Valladolid); Gothic vaults in stone in the Monastery of Pelayos de la Presa (Madrid); Vaults and domes in the Colegio San Basilio Magno de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), in the Convent of San Juan de la Penitencia de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), in the sacristy of Loeches (Madrid) and in the Chapel of San Felipe de Novelda (Alicante). He has participated as a builder in the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2016, executing a contemporary vaulted ceiling in collaboration with MIT (Prof. John Ochsendorf), with the design of Sir Norman Foster.

Esther Redondo

Professor at European University of Madrid

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Antonino Iannuzzo

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Tenured Assistant Professor at University of Sannio

Antonino Iannuzzo is a structural engineer. He completed his Ph.D. in 2017 with a dissertation on “A new rigid block model for masonry structures”. Antonino’s research during his Ph.D. work focused on models for the static, kinematic and dynamic analysis of masonry elements and structures modelled as continua composed of Normal Rigid No-Tension material. During the academic year 2017-18 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher on “large scale assessment of ordinary masonry buildings under seismic actions” at the P.LIN.I.V.S. Study Centre for Hydrogeological, Volcanic and Seismic Engineering, whose scientific coordinator is Prof. Giulio Zuccaro, and joined the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich as a post-doctoral researcher, for three years: 2018-21. He is currently a Tenured Lecturer at UniSannio and an Honorary Fellow at Swinburne University Melbourne.

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INVITED LECTURERS

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Matthew DeJong

Professor at Berkeley University of California

Matthew DeJong is a Professor in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials at University of California, Berkeley. He was a university lecturer in Structural Engineering and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering at St Catharine’s College. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Delft and completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and worked as a structural design engineer in California. His research interests lie broadly in the field of structural engineering, but are primarily focused in the areas of earthquake and masonry structures.

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Alejandra Albuerne

Assistant Professor at IE University

Dr. Alejandra Albuerne is a structural engineer with more than twenty years of international experience across industry and academia. Her career has included work in Asia and Europe as structural engineer and heritage specialist within organisations such as Arup and Architecture Sans Frontieres. In 2017 she joined UCL as Assistant Professor of Sustainable Heritage at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Since 2022, Albuerne is Assistant Professor at IE University’s School of Architecture and Design, where she is Coordinator of Building Structures.

Albuerne obtained her Master of Engineering degree from the University of Cambridge in 2003 and her  DPhil in Archaeology and Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 2016. She has a background in traditional building structures, heritage management and international development. Her research focuses on the role of cultural heritage in the safety and development of communities. Examples of ongoing research include the seismic performance evaluation of earthen constructions in the 2023 Morocco earthquake and the development of fire-structure interaction models for historic structures.

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Assistant Professor

José Lemos

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National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) 

Dr José Lemos is a Principal Researcher at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Porto and a PhD in Rock Mechanics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has been involved in the development of the discrete element codes UDEC and 3DEC. His research interests include dam foundations in rock, seismic analysis of masonry structures and discrete element modelling.

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Aguinaldo Fraddosio

Professor at Polytechnic University of Bari

Aguinaldo Fraddosio, Ph.D., is a structural engineer and associate professor of “Scienza delle Costruzioni” at the Department of Architecture Construction and Design (ArCoD) of the Polytechnic University of Bari.

His research activity, developed within an established network of Italian and international scholars, is focused on fundamental and applicative issues of solids, structural, and experimental mechanics. His research interests in historic masonry constructions concern advanced applications of the lower bound theorem of limit analysis for corbelled structures, arches, vaults, and domes; dynamics of curved masonry constructions; advanced strengthening techniques; damage characterization. On these subjects, he performed both theoretical and experimental research. Moreover, he studies stability and bifurcation in finite elasticity; advanced ultrasonic approaches for mechanical characterization of materials; acoustoelasticity; tensegrity structures; innovative approaches for structural dynamic identification; vibro-impact dampers for seismic protection of structures. He is the principal investigator in research projects on existing and historical structures, seismic metamaterials, and non-linear ultrasonic techniques for damage characterization. He carries out an intense didactic activity, mostly at MSc and PhD level, also giving lectures and seminars for national and international courses.

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Lia Romano

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Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at University of Naples Federico II

Lia Romano, Architect, PhD in Architectural Heritage and Landscape: History and Restoration (2018), is currently Assistant Professor in Architectural Restoration (RTDa) at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the same department from 2020 to 2023 and Visiting Researcher in 2017 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette and in 2019 at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Institute d’histoire moderne et contemporaine), supported by the ATLAS mobility program funded by the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi of Turin and the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris.

Since 2014, Lia Romano has been actively engaged in research and teaching within the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II, participating in interdisciplinary research projects funded by both the University and local authorities, focusing on the knowledge and restoration of architectural and archaeological heritage. Her research interests include historical construction techniques, the circulation and transmission of construction knowledge in Italy and Europe and the implementation of conservation strategies for cultural heritage at risk.

Lia Romano presents her work at national and international conferences and contributes to scientific journals and collective volumes. In February 2023, she attained the National Scientific Qualification for the position of second-tier professor (GSD: 08/CEAR-11).

Valentina Russo

Professor at University of Naples Federico II

Valentina Russo is Full Professor of Restoration in the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II. She was the Vice-President of the Italian Society for the Restoration of Architecture (SIRA) and a member of its Board of Directors. At the University of Naples Federico II, she directs the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage and the 3rd level Master’s degree in Restoration and Design for Archaeology. Since 2014 she has directed the “Architettura e Restauro” series (Nardini editore, Florence). She coordinated research projects on competitive calls and is the main author of more than 150 papers and books dedicated to the theoretical, to the historical-critical and to the technical-planning aspects of architectural and landscape restoration.

Her research interests are largely focused on the themes of the History of Construction and on the building site through the centuries, also investigated in relation to the repercussions on contemporary restoration and damage prevention projects.

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Nicola Nodargi

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Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at of Rome Tor Vergata

Nicola A. Nodargi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He received his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the same university, where he earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 2016. His Ph.D. thesis was selected as a finalist for the 2016 ECCOMAS Best Ph.D. Thesis award and was recognized with the 2016 GIMC Best Ph.D. Thesis award and the 2017 ECCOMAS Best Ph.D. Presentation award. As a Postdoctoral researcher, he was a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His research activity, framed in the field of computational mechanics, focuses on the development of computational strategies for the analysis of structures exhibiting material and geometric nonlinearities, with a particular interest in the static and dynamic response of historical masonry constructions.

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