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...

Panagiotis Asaridis has been awarded as the winner of the 11th Edition of the Afan De Rivera Prize for his PhD thesis in the field of hydraulic reclamation and soil protection, titled “Flood Damage Assessment to Power Grids.” The award recognizes the best theses...

‘Green’, energy-independent sensors as small as a coin have been developed for wireless networks and real-time monitoring. These are the results of the MetaVEH (Metamaterial Enabled Vibration Energy Harvesting) project, which has just ended, following funding of €4...

Alberto Guadagnini, professor of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale - Politecnico di Milano and Vice Rector for Research at Politecnico di Milano, has been awarded the prestigious International Honorary Fellow Award by the Geological Society of America...

Maurizio Crispino, full Professor of Roads, Railways and Airports at our Department, has been appointed Global Coordinator of Strategic Theme 4 – Resilient Infrastructures by the PIARC World Road Association. For over thirty years, Prof. Crispino has been actively...