Short profile
Dr. Ivano Benedetti is full Professor of Aerospace Structures in the Department of Engineering of the University of Palermo (Italy).
He is the Coordinator of the Teaching Board of the Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering, where he also teaches.
He is component of the Scientific Board of the PhD School in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Management and Aerospace Innovation.
He is component of the Scientific Board of the PhD School in Civil, Environmental and Materials Enginering.
He has been (2009-2015) member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in Technology and Management of Aeronautical Infrastructures of the University Kore of Enna, Italy.
Has been Invited Foreign Professor at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Rouen Normandie, France.
Has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2015-2016, 5 months) in the Department of Mechanical Enginering of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern Univeristy, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Has been Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (2011-2013) at the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College London, UK.
In 2008 he obtained a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy.
In 2001 he obtained a Master in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Palermo, Italy.
Has authored overall more than 150 scientific papers, in leading international peer reviewed journals, book chapters and national and international conference proceedings.
He is member of the Editorial Board of
- CEAS Aeronautical Journal
- Journal of Multiscale Modelling
- European Journal of Computational Mechanics
- MDPI/Modelling
He serves as referee for several international journals.
He has been member of the Scientific Committee of several international conferences, including the International Conference on Damage and Fracture Mechanics and the International Conference on Boundary Element and Meshless techniques.
His research interests include: Computational modelling of materials and structures, Damage and fracture mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring, Micromechanics, Multiscale modelling, Polycrystalline materials, Composite materials, Piezoelectric materials, Finite and Boundary Element Method (FEM and BEM), fast BEM solvers.