Nikolas Galli and Gabriele Beretta have been awarded in the latest call of the Horizon Europe Connect Fund promoted by Imperial College London. The programme provides funding of up to £10,000 to support international collaboration activities aimed at developing...

Prof. Maria Cristina Rulli has been awarded the 2026 Volker medal “for pioneering research and global leadership in applying hydrology to food, water and health security, benefitting the society and informing the policy worldwide”. The Volker medal is awarded annually...

As part of the actions outlined in the University's Strategic Plan to support research, Prof. Valentina Zega has been awarded a Seed Fund of €150,000. The funding is aimed at launching and supporting the research activities developed within the proposal "Frequency...

Start-up "AMBRA – calcestruzzo “intelligente” che integra funzioni di monitoraggio nella struttura stessa" developed by Niki Trochoutsou and Prof. Liberato Ferrara, has been selected among the winners of the 17th edition of the Switch2Product Innovation Challenge,...

Lucia Castellani, PhD candidate in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, has been selected for the IDEA League PhD Grant. The grant will allow her to spend three months in 2026 at ETH Zurich as part of her doctoral research activities. Lucia is an engineer...

Professor Umberto Perego has been elected President of AIMETA (Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) for the 2026–2029 term, officially taking office on January 30th following the elections held in December. AIMETA is a long-standing institution...

The ISSG PhD candidate Linghzi Chen has won the Top Prize Award as part of the 2026 Piezo MEMS Design Challenge, an international initiative sponsored by the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and STMicroelectronics. The awarded project, titled “Novel Subwavelength...

Andrea Marcucci, PhD graduate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received the Young Research Prof. Surendra P. Shah Award 2026 on Technologies for Low-Carbon and Lean Construction for his dissertation entitled An Advanced Tunnel...

Professor Liberato Ferrara has been elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), leading global authority for the development, dissemination, and adoption of consensus-based standards in the broad domain of concrete materials and structural applications,...

The international scientific journal Hydrology (MDPI) has awarded the Hydrology Best Paper Award to the paper “Probabilistic Approach to Tank Design in Rainwater Harvesting Systems”, authored by Maria Gloria Di Chiano, Mariana Lobo Marchioni, Anita Raimondi, Umberto...