Nicola Pugno
Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian scientist,[1][2] mechanical engineer, astrophysicist, holding PhDs in fracture mechanics and biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento[3] (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin[4][5]) and part-time professor of materials science at Queen Mary University of London[6]. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford[7].
He has been appointed to several committees, including the technical and scientific committee[8] of the Italian Space Agency, and has served as a plenary speaker at numerous international workshops, events and conferences, such as Falling Walls,[9] at the World Economic Forum[10][11] and the European Parliament[12] invited by the European Research Council (ERC) as well as -as opening plenary speaker- at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2020+1).[13] He is editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of Frontiers in Materials.[14]
Pugno has published around 650 papers in international journals[15]. For his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion, he has received multiple awards. These include the first edition of the GiovedìScienza prize in 2012 (for both research and science popularization[16]), the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize[17] in 2017 and the Humboldt Prize[18] in 2022. Since 2011, he has secured several grants from the European Union mainly under the Excellent Science pillars -including 5 ERC grants[19]- for both fundamental science[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and high-tech transfer,[27][28][29][30][31] which he is developing for various high-tech industries.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nicola Pugno - Top Italian Scientist in Engineering". topitalianscientists.org.
- ^ "Nicola M Pugno - AD Scientific Index 2025". www.adscientificindex.com.
- ^ "Nicola Pugno - Solid and Structural Mechanics Group - University of Trento". pugno.dicam.unitn.it.
- ^ "DISEG - Laboratorio Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics". DISEG.
- ^ "MUSEO VIRTUALE - Gli ingegneri - Giuseppe Maria Pugno". areeweb.polito.it.
- ^ "Prof Nicola Pugno". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
- ^ "Home". staff.admin.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Samantha Cristoforetti chiama il Muse". Trentino Cultura.
- ^ "Nicola Pugno | Falling Walls". falling-walls.com.
- ^ "Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012". ERC.
- ^ "Nicola Pugno". World Economic Forum.
- ^ "ERA Portal Austria – ERC celebrates 5,000th top researcher funded". era.gv.at.
- ^ "Plenary Lecturers | ICTAM 2020". www.ictam2020.org.
- ^ "Frontiers in Materials | Editorial board". www.frontiersin.org.
- ^ "Nicola M. Pugno". scholar.google.it.
- ^ "GiovedìScienza: la scienza in diretta settimana per settimana - torinoscienza.it". archivio.torinoscienza.it.
- ^ "Professor Nicola Pugno wins the IOM3's Griffith Medal & Prize". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
- ^ Tomassetti, Giuseppe (November 23, 2022). "Humboldt Research Award 2022 a Nicola Pugno".
- ^ "A new European research project in Trento | UniTrento Press Room". pressroom.unitn.it.
- ^ "Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials | BIHSNAM Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Bio-Inspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials | BOHEME Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Biofunctionalised Electroconducting Microfibres for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury | Neurofibres Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Ramp Up Phase Highlights from the Graphene Flagship". Graphene Flagship.
- ^ "Graphene-based disruptive technologies | GrapheneCore1 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 2 | GrapheneCore2 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 3 | GrapheneCore3 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "SILKENE: Bionic silk with graphene or other nanomaterials spun by silkworms | SILKENE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces | REPLICA2 Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "KNOTOUGH: Super-tough knotted fibers | KNOTOUGH Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "acouStIc metamateriaL for MRI noisE caNCEllation | SILENCE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
- ^ "Bioinspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials for Railways | BioMetaRail Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
External links
[edit]- Nicola Pugno publications indexed by Google Scholar
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