Research Area

Active Research fields

 

- Re-use of tyre rubber in civil engineering applications

- Modification of bitumen

- Technology development for pavements and railway

- Advanced rheological analysis of complex materials and Computational rheology

- Sustainability Assessment and Life Cycle Management

- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for complex systems 

- SMART infrastructures: Structural Health Monitoring adn Asset management

 

Research projects of the last 5 years

 

PROJECTS: Dr. Lo Presti is a certified Project Manager, he has secured funding for more than 10 million € in research grants and has extensive experience in coordinating wide, international and multi-disciplinary projects. On this regards, He has recently ensured funding for a world-wide effort aimed at exploiting his vision of Sustainable Multi-Functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures (SUP&R ITN 2013 - 2017 - SMARTI ETN 2017-2021).

 

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• 2017 - 2021 - SMARTI ETN - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures - (4M€ - 1.300,000€ at UNOTT) -H2020 Marie Curie Actions - "COORDINATOR
• 2018 - 2020 Pavement LCM - a complete package for Life Cycle Management of green asphalt mixtures and road pavement - Conference of European Road Directors (CEDR) call "New materials" 2017
• 2018 - 2020 CRABforOERE - Cold Recycled Asphalt Bases for Optimised Energy & Resource Efficient Pavements - Conference of European Road Directors (CEDR) call "New materials" 2017

PAST PROJECTS:

• 2015 - 2018 BIOREPAVATION: innovation in bio-recycling of asphalt pavement- (1.500,000€, 200k at UNOTT) - Funded by ERANET - INFRAVATION RESEARCH PROGRAMME under the call 2014. - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• 2013 - 2017 - SUP&R ITN: Sustainable Pavement & Railway Initial Training Network - (4€ - 1M€ at UNOTT) - Funded by EU FP7 within the People-Marie Curie ITN scheme. Main author, Co-investigator and Project Manager.
• 2012 - 2015 co-PI of ALLBACK2PAVE (http://allback2pave.fehrl.org/) - "Towards 100% recycling of reclaimed asphalt in wearing courses" - CEDR call "recycling" 2012
• 2013 - 2015 Co-PI, Academic supervisor of KTP with Chesterfelt Ltd
• 2014 - 2015 PI, HERMES fellowship in "Rheometry of complex fluids"
• 2010 - 2013 co-investigator under the 4M € EU FP7 project "ReRoad"- End of Life Strategies of Asphalt Pavements" http://re-road.fehrl.org/.

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS: 

• 2019 - RITA LEVI MONTALCINI Fellowship (call 2016) - 200k € project "SMARTECOINFRA" linked with a permanent position at an italian University
• Feb 2015 - EPSRC Phd fees + FROG PhD studentship - (41,798£) - "EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant Centre in Complex Systems and Processes Pictures.
• Oct 2014 - HERMES Fellowship - (20,000£) - "Rheology of complex fluids" received by University of Nottingham, UK, through EU funding
• Aug 2013 - FROG PhD scolarship for EU student (Faculty of Engineering University of Nottingham) - 41,798£
• Jun 2013 - FROG PhD scolarship for EU student (Faculty of Engineering University of Nottingham) - 47,798£
• Jun 2013 - PhD Scholarship for Research Excellence from Brazil (Programa Capes/Universidade de Nottingham /Universidade de Birmingham - Bolsa de Doutorado Pleno) - 45,000£
• Jun 2013 Main author, Co-PI and Project Manager of a European project "SUP&R ITN 2013 - 2017" Funded by EU FP7 within the People-Marie Curie ITN scheme - 4,066,597.00 €.
• Jun 2013 CO-PI of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project to support technology development of a UK SME (KTP) 2013 - 2015 147.000£
• Apr 2013: Co-Investigator of "ALLBACK2PAVE: Toward 100% recycling of reclaimed asphalt" (2013-2015) - 460.000€. Funded by CEDR TRANSNATIONAL ROAD RESEARCH PROGRAMME under the call 2012.
• Jan 2012: "Bridging the Gaps "Next Generation feasibility Awards 2012" - 10.000£ for research activities. Funded by University of Nottingham

Collaborations

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SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55352127300&eid=2-s2.0-85058510590

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yScEZPYAAAAJ&hl=en

RESEARCHGATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Davide_Lo_Presti 

 

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