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- Education

1988, Graduated in Materials Engineering (summa cum laude) at the University of Trento with a dissertation entitled “Mechanical behaviour of sol-gel coat ed soda-lime glass”, tutor prof G.Carturan .

- Current position

2012 - present, Full Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Trento, Trento, Italy

- Professional appointments

1992 – 2002, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

1995, Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

1997, Research scientist
Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

1998 – 2001, Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Materials Engineering and Environment
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

2002 – 2012, Associate Professor
Dept. of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technology University of Trento, Trento, Italy

2006, Visiting Professor
Universidad Nacional del Sur
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET) Bahía Blanca, Argentina

2011– present, Graduate Faculty Associate
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

2015 – 2017, Special Visiting Researcher
Mechanical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil


- Editorial Boards of International Scientific Journals

as an editor:
2014 - present Associate Editor of the "Journal or Reinforced Plastics and Composites"
2014 - present Specialty Chief Editor "Frontiers in Materials: Polymeric and Composite Materials"
2020 - present Editor in Chief of the “Advanced Composites” section of "Materials”.
2021 – present Editor, “Polymer Composites”

as a member:
2006 - present Member of the Editorial Board of “eXPRESS Polymer Letters”
2008 - present Member of the Editorial Board of “Composite Interfaces”
2010 - 2014 Member of the Editorial Board of “The Open Textile Journal”
2010 - present Member of the Editorial Board of “Materials Sciences and Applications”
2011 - present Member of the Editorial Board of "Soft Nanoscience Letters”
2012 - 2017 Member of the Editorial Board of "Dataset Papers in Materials Science"
2014 - present Member of the Editorial Board of "International Journal of Polymer Science"

- Reviewer activity

Reviewer for various archival journals, among them:
ACS Nano, Acta Biomaterialia; Advances in Polymer Technologies; Biomaterials; Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing; Composites Part B: Engineering; Composites Science and Technology; Diamond & Related Materials; Express Polymer Letters; International Journal of Fatigue; European Polymer Journal; International Journal of Polymer Science; International Journal of Solids; Journal of Applied Polymer Science; Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer Edition; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures; Journal of Materials Chemistry C; Journal of Materials Processing Technology; Macromolecular Bioscience; Macromolecular Materials and Engineering; Macromolecular Rapid Communications; Materials and Design; Materials; Materials Science and Engineering: A; Nanomaterials; Nature Communications; Polymer, Polymers; Polymer Bulletin; Polymer Composites; Polymer Degradation and Stability; Polymer Engineering and Science; Polymer International; Polymer Testing; Science and Engineering of Composite Materials; Scripta Materialia; Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical; Synthetic Metals; Waste Management.


Reviewer for the following grant agencies:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria
- Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GACR), Czech Republic
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Hungary
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
- Italian Ministry for University and Resarch (MIUR), Italy
- Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, Romania
- Member of the Commission for the National Scientific Habilitation in Materials Science and Technology for the Italian Ministry for University and Resarch (MIUR), Italy 2018 – 2021.