Liborio Cavaleri obtained the degree degree in Civil Engineering at the  la University of Palermo in 1992. Six years after he obtains the PhD in Structural Engineering at the same University.  The actual position is Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental, Aerospace and of the Materials of Palermo University where he takes the courses of Technique of the Building Structures and Design of Seismic Structures. He is member of the Interuniversity Centre for Structural Dynamics, Theoretical and Experimental (C.I.Di.S.) at the University of Palermo and has contributed to about 35 research projects. Actually he cooperates with Universities of Malta, San Diego, Athens, Belfast to the developments of the following topics: a) Seismic Vulnerability; Probabilistic modeling; Dynamic Identification; Innovative techniques and materials for structures; Masonry mechanics; Reinforced concrete framed structures; Structural Ductility.

Prof. Liborio Cavaleri is author of more than one hundred publications, many of them on international journals further he is member of the editorial board of The Open Construction and  Building Technologies Journal that is indicized in by SCOPUS.