Leonardo Bertini
Professor of Mechanical Design and Machine Construction at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Leonardo Bertini graduated cum laude in Nuclear Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Pisa University in 1980. Immediately after his degree, he worked for three years as an engineer for two national companies, Nuovo Pignone, Florence and Costruzioni Metalliche FINSIDER, Leghorn. From 1984 to 1986, he followed the Ph.D. course in “Mechanics of Materials” at the University of Pisa and became a member of staff of the university in 1988. From 1992 to 1999, he was an associate professor and in 2000 became a full professor.

Institutional roles

Professor Bertini was vice president of the Council for the degree course in Mechanical Engineering from 2000 to 2002, president of the Council for the postgraduate degree course in Mechanical Engineering from 2003 to 2008, director of the Ph.D. School in Engineering “Leonardo da Vinci” from 2005 to 2009, vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2009 to 2012 and expert member then full member of the Patents Committee of the University of Pisa. From 1993 to 2000, he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association for Stress Analysis (AIAS), and from 1993 to 1997 was secretary and treasurer. From 2005 to 2007, he was the president of the association.

Scientific and teaching activities

From 1992 to the present, Professor Bertini has taught Machine Design, Computer Aided Design of Structures and Mechanical Construction Techniques for various degree courses in the Engineering area. Professor Bertini’s research interests have included; the fatigue behaviour of metals at high temperature and in corrosive environments and high average stress; fracture mechanics, both theoretical and experimental; the mechanics of composite materials; hydrogen weakening; the fatigue and resistance of welded joints; the measurement and modulation of states of auto tension; the behaviour of oil drilling blocks, for which full scale models have been developed from the original machines and used for scientific collaboration with Italian and foreign companies; the behaviour of continuously variable transmission CVT, for use in vehicles, in particular as regards performance.
Professor Bertini’s research has led to more than 130 research memos many of which have been published in the most prestigious international journals of this sector. His work has earned him the following recognition: AIAS Award (Italian Association for Stress Analysis) in 1992 and 2000; CEGB Prize (Central Electricity Generating Board) 2010, bestowed by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design; SMAU Prize for Innovation 2016 attributed to the spin-off company of the University of Pisa, Letomec together with Electrolux.
Professor Bertini is the co-owner of two patents, “Device for the measurement of the mechanical properties of materials, in particular metal materials” and “Helios: Innovative automated system for the measurement of hydrogen content and the relative diffusion coefficient in materials and measuring instrument”.

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Marco Raugi
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Construction Engineering.

Marco Raugi graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1985 and gained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the university in 1990. He has been a full professor of Electrical Engineering since 2000.

Incarichi istituzionali

Professor Raugi has been the delegate of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa for International Relations and the Socrates-Erasmus programme and president of the International Ph.D. in “Applied Electromagnetics in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Electronics, Smart Sensors and Nanotechnologies”. He has also been the director of the Department of Energy and Systems Engineering and subsequently the director of the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Construction Engineering. At present, he belongs to the board of the national group for the coordination of the university scientific sector “Electrical Engineering” and he currently represents the University of Pisa in the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance).

Attività didattica e scientifica

Professor Raugi’s research activities centre around the numerical methods for the analysis of electromagnetic fields in linear and nonlinear media whose main applications have been in non destructive testing, electromagnetic compatibility in transmission lines and electromagnetic launchers. More recently, Professor Raugi has investigated computational intelligence applications to electrical engineering with particular focus on PowerLineCommunications and the SmartGrid. He is the author of over 200 papers in international journals and proceeedings of international conferences.

Professor Raugi was the principal scientific investigator at national level for the PRIN 2003 and 2007 programmes and the main coordinator of projects financed by Italian banking foundations (Caripi , CariLiv), by ENI, GERG and Italian PMI. He has also served as chairman and member of international conference committees (COMPUMAG, CEFC, EMC Zurich, ISPLC) and the author of invited lectures as well as the instructor of courses at international conferences (PIERS, ACES). He received the IEEE-Industry Application Society Melcher Paper Award 2002.

Contacts

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Walter Salvatore
Professor of Construction Techniques at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering.

Walter Salvatore was born in Nardò (Lecce) in 1966. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1993 and gained a joint Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the Universities of Florence, Bari, Genoa, Pisa and Udine in 1997. He was a researcher at the University of Pisa from 2002 and an associate professor there from 2011 to 2016 when he became a full professor.

Incarichi istituzionali

Since 2015 Professor Salvatore has been the president of the Joint Council for the Interclass Master’s degree in Building and Structural Engineering and for the Master’s degree in Hydraulic, Transportation and Territory Engineering. He has participated and continues to participate as an expert member in committees set up by the Superior Council of Public Works of the Ministry of Infrastructure for the drafting of technical regulations for anti-seismic construction design, the guidelines for the seismic classification of buildings and the reduction of seismic risk and the guidelines for the anti-seismic design of metallic structures.

Attività didattica e scientifica

Professor Salvatore holds courses in Construction in Earthquake-prone Areas and Foundation Structures for the Interclass Master’s Degree in Building and Structural Engineering of the University of Pisa and in Construction Techniques for the Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Environmental and Building Engineering.
Professor Salvatore’s research interests are in the field of anti-seismic construction and the reduction of seismic risk. In this field, he has elaborated on the subject of the design in steel and steel-concrete composite structures, developing structural systems for the dissipation of seismic energy. In the field of reinforced concrete structures, he is studying the development of Dual-Phase steel reinforcing bars for enhancing the capacity and durability of these structures. He has also faced the problems of the static safety and the seismic vulnerability of existing structures in stone and reinforced concrete as well as historic buildings, studying, therefore, techniques and intervention strategies to remediate their seismic deficiencies. Finally, he has recently collaborated on the development of new methodologies for the assessment of seismic risk of structures, based on a macroseismic approach, calibrated together with the Tuscan Region and that of Emilia Romagna.
At international level, Professor Salvatore is the coordinator of four research projects financed at European level. He was the principal investigator of the research unit at the University of Pisa for a further 12 international research projects; he was also the principal investigator of the research unit at the University of Pisa for five national research projects and more than 40 research contracts stipulated with public authorities and private enterprises. He has supervised and continues to supervise research projects as an independent expert at national and international level. In particular, since 2006, he has been an independent expert member, nominated by the Research Directorate-General, Directorate G – Industrial Technologies of the European Commission, for the assessment and monitoring of research projects financed by the RFCS: Research Fund for Coal and Steel and the ECSC: European Committee for Coal and Steel.

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Vincenzo Gervasi

Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science.
He graduated in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 1993. After a period of experience in the industrial sector, he returned to the academic world to gain his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000 and then worked as a researcher until 2014 when he became an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science. Since 2004, he has been an Honorary Associate at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Institutional roles  

Alongside his teaching and research activities, he has been active in the field of management and services, such as participating in the Presidential Committee of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, in the Joint Committee of the Department of Computer Science, in the Management Committee of the “L. Fibonacci” Learning Hub. In 2000, along with Franco Alberto Cardillo he elaborated the software system used to manage the teaching spaces of the university. Since then he has been in charge of monitoring and optimizing the teaching spaces. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Room Committee of the university, assigned by the rector.

Teaching and research activities

Vincenzo Gervasi has carried out a variety of teaching activities in different study courses, principally in the Department of Computer Science, but also in the Departments of Mathematics, Geosciences and Philology, Literature and Linguistics as well as in the Naval Academy. He has also held doctoral courses both at the University of Pisa and abroad and he has been a supervisor or co-supervisor of eight Ph.Ds. as well as being a member of the doctoral committee for other universities. Since 2012, he has been the Director of the post-graduate course in Mobile Application Development. He also deals with scientific divulgation both in the editorial field (he is the author of five teaching manuals and dozens of informative papers), and through his participation at events such as the Internet Festival or initiatives linked to schools. He also holds professional training and refreshment courses for companies.
Vincenzo Gervasi’s research interests rotate around the cognitive aspects of Software Engineering. In this field, numerous related branches have developed which have led him to work on themes such as the processing of natural language, knowledge representation and reasoning, non monotonic logic, formal methods and specification language, and more recently techniques of artificial intelligence and automated learning. Some strands then evolved towards the definition of languages for software, software tracing and bio inspired distributed systems. The results of this research are documented in over 100 international publications. The publications are accompanied by intense organization and participation in conferences including the role of Program Chair and Steering Committee in principal conferences of the sector, as well as the participation in national and international projects and applied research projects (with contracts from third party companies).

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"Polvere cosmica: una visione cosmochimica dell'origine e dell'evoluzione del sistema solare" è titolo del progetto coordinato dal dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Università di Pisa che ha l'obiettivo di contribuire alla definizione della composizione del complesso di polveri interplanetarie presenti nella spazio vicino alla Terra. Analisi cosmochimiche di micrometeoriti, raccolte sulle Montagne Transantartiche, e di polveri cosmiche, campionate nella stratosfera sopra l'Antartide mediante sonde stratosferiche, permetteranno infatti di stabilire la natura di tutti i corpi celesti del sistema solare in grado di produrre polveri come asteroidi e comete - forse pianeti e loro satelliti - nonché di studiare il contributo della materia extraterrestre al budget geochimico della Terra.

La Terra "ingrassa" di oltre 40.000 tonnellate ogni anno grazie a un continuo flusso di materia extraterrestre, costituito principalmente da polveri cosmiche. Decelerando dalle velocità cosmiche negli strati alti della atmosfera, cadono sulla superficie del nostro pianeta dove possono essere identificate per le loro proprietà composizionali uniche. Le polveri cosmiche sono minuscoli frammenti di roccia (1-2000 micrometri) prodotti principalmente da collisioni tra asteroidi o dalla evaporazione e disintegrazione di comete. Si tratta quindi di campioni dei materiali più primitivi del sistema solare da cui si sono formati i pianeti rocciosi, ivi inclusa la Terra.

Il progetto, finanziato dal MIUR nell'ambito dei Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) 2015, è coordinato dal professor Luigi Folco, associato di Petrologia e Petrografia dell'Ateneo pisano, e sarà svolto in collaborazione con l’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica di Roma.

Nella foto in alto: una sezione sottile di una sferula cosmica fotografata al microscopio ottico polarizzatore. Nella foto in basso: Luigi Folco.

Nell’ambito della convenzione di collaborazione scientifica tra l’Università di Pisa e l’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa di Pomaia, una delegazione di docenti dell’Ateneo è stata invitata dal Dalai Lama a seguire i lavori dello “Emory-Tibet Symposium” che si è tenuto a Mundgod, in India, dal 18 al 20 dicembre. Al simposio sono intervenuti esperti di livello internazionale nelle discipline che riguardano la scienza della mente, come la filosofia, la psicologia, la biologia e le neuroscienze.

Nell’occasione il Dalai Lama ha voluto incontrare personalmente i professori Angelo Gemignani e Bruno Neri, membri insieme ad Alfonso Maurizio Iacono del comitato scientifico che presiede la convenzione, per discutere dello sviluppo e della prosecuzione delle iniziative già avviate nell’ambito degli accordi. Prima fra tutte il master dell’Università di Pisa in “Neuroscienze, mindfulness e pratiche contemplative” al quale già collaborano alcuni insigni studiosi dell’ILTK. Altro argomento del colloquio è stato l’organizzazione a Pisa nel 2017 di una conferenza internazionale, multidisciplinare, sulle principali tematiche legate allo studio della mente, che vedrà come ospite d’onore lo stesso Dalai Lama.

L’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa è uno dei principali centri in Occidente della Fondazione per la Preservazione della Tradizione Mahaiana (FPMT), sviluppatasi in Tibet a partire dal IX secolo. Al suo interno si svolgono attività di studio, formazione e approfondimento indirizzati a una migliore comprensione della natura interiore e dei processi mentali, attraverso lo studio della filosofia e della psicologia buddiste.

La convenzione tra Università di Pisa e l’ILTK ha lo scopo di promuovere un approccio multidisciplinare allo studio della coscienza e dell’interazione mente-corpo. Tale approccio si avvarrà, da una parte, dei metodi, degli strumenti e delle acquisizioni delle scienze occidentali (biofisica, neuroscienze, psicologia, psicofisiologia, filosofia della mente) dall’altra dell’enorme bagaglio di conoscenze accumulate, in oltre 2500 anni di storia, dalla tradizione buddista nel campo dell’analisi in prima persona dei processi mentali, introspezione, concentrazione, meditazione, mindfulness.

Nell’ambito della convenzione di collaborazione scientifica tra l’Università di Pisa e l’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa di Pomaia, una delegazione di docenti dell’Ateneo è stata invitata dal Dalai Lama a seguire i lavori dello Emory-Tibet Symposium che si è tenuto a Mundgod, in India, dal 18 al 20 dicembre. Al simposio sono intervenuti esperti di livello internazionale nelle discipline che riguardano la scienza della mente, come la filosofia, la psicologia, la biologia e le neuroscienze.

Nell’occasione il Dalai Lama ha voluto incontrare personalmente i professori Angelo Gemignani e Bruno Neri, membri insieme ad Alfonso Maurizio Iacono del comitato scientifico che presiede la convenzione, per discutere dello sviluppo e della prosecuzione delle iniziative già avviate nell’ambito degli accordi. Prima fra tutte il master dell’Università di Pisa in “Neuroscienze, mindfulness e pratiche contemplative” al quale già collaborano alcuni insigni studiosi dell’ILTK. Altro argomento del colloquio è stato l’organizzazione a Pisa nel 2017 di una conferenza internazionale, multidisciplinare, sulle principali tematiche legate allo studio della mente, che vedrà come ospite d’onore lo stesso Dalai Lama.

I rappresentanti della Convenzione UniPi-ILTK insieme al Dalai Lama. Da sinistra: il direttore dell'ILTK Filppo Scianna, il Ven. Massimo Stordi, Fabrizio Pallotti, interprete personale del Dalai Lama; alla sinistra del Dalai Lama i professori Angelo Gemignani e Bruno Neri.

L’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa è uno dei principali centri in Occidente della Fondazione per la Preservazione della Tradizione Mahaiana (FPMT), sviluppatasi in Tibet a partire dal IX secolo. Al suo interno si svolgono attività di studio, formazione e approfondimento indirizzati a una migliore comprensione della natura interiore e dei processi mentali, attraverso lo studio della filosofia e della psicologia buddiste.

La convenzione tra Università di Pisa e l’ILTK ha lo scopo di promuovere un approccio multidisciplinare allo studio della coscienza e dell’interazione mente-corpo. Tale approccio si avvarrà, da una parte, dei metodi, degli strumenti e delle acquisizioni delle scienze occidentali (biofisica, neuroscienze, psicologia, psicofisiologia, filosofia della mente) dall’altra dell’enorme bagaglio di conoscenze accumulate, in oltre 2500 anni di storia, dalla tradizione buddista nel campo dell’analisi in prima persona dei processi mentali, introspezione, concentrazione, meditazione, mindfulness.

Il professor Bruno Neri (a destra) consegna al Dalai Lama una medaglia col simbolo del Cherubino. Con loro Fabrizio Pallotti, interprete personale del Dalai Lama.