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Nikolas Galli receives the Florisa Melone Award 2023

Nikolas Galli receives the Florisa Melone Award 2023

During the Hydrology Days held in Matera, Nikolas Galli (RTD-A researcher – Politecnico di Milano DICA) and Marco Lompi (researcher at the University of Florence) were awarded with Florisa Melone 2023 prize of the Italian Hydrological Society, for the project “FLORAES...

Marco Moscatelli awarded at the IP Best Thesis Awards 2022

Marco Moscatelli awarded at the IP Best Thesis Awards 2022

Congratulations to Marco Moscatelli, postdoctoral researcher at DICA, for receiving the Department Best PhD Thesis Award. A total of 50 applications were submitted for the award, and the PhD Award Committee decided to confer 2 IP Best Thesis Awards (ex aequo) and 7...

Securing safe drinking water distribution with SAFECREW

Securing safe drinking water distribution with SAFECREW

Climate-resilient management for safe disinfected and non-disinfected water supply systems The second meeting of the SafeCREW project (https://safecrew.org/), funded by the European Union (EU) within the Horizon Europe program, has just taken place at Politecnico di...

MOOC WAT 102 – Water: an essential resource

MOOC WAT 102 – Water: an essential resource

Following the METID initiative on "Sustainability" theme "WATER", Prof. Manuela Antonelli coordinated the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) WAT102 entitled: "Water: an essential resource" with the collaboration of Beatrice Cantoni, Marco Carminati, Eugenio Morello,...

Welcome to the DICA Olympic Games!

Welcome to the DICA Olympic Games!

Welcome to the DICA Olympic Games!  Each sport has its own rules, so check the table on the next page to choose wisely. The event is open to PhD students, research fellows, researchers, professors and technical-administrative staff.  Some sports require a Basic...

Congratulations to Andrea Marcucci for the Student Travel Award

Congratulations to Andrea Marcucci for the Student Travel Award

Andrea Marcucci, PhD student in Structural Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering at Politecnico DICA is one of the recipients, out of 50 applicants, of the student travel award granted by the American Concrete Institute to attend the aci spring 2023 convention in San...

Appointment to Prof. Liberato Ferrara

Appointment to Prof. Liberato Ferrara

We are glad to announce that Prof. Liberato Ferrara of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been nominated as member of the Structures Commission of the Order of Engineers of Milan.

Companies meet Students

Companies meet Students

On 20 February, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano welcomed BrianzAcque, who shared his knowledge and the experience of his professionals in the water sector during a Hydraulics lesson held by Prof. Stefano Mambretti....

Monica Riva and Chiara Recalcati – InterPore assignment

Monica Riva and Chiara Recalcati – InterPore assignment

Congratulations to Prof. Monica Riva and PhD student Chiara Recalcati for being elected respectively as Council Member and Student Affairs Committee for InterPore. InterPore, the International Society for Porous Media, is an independent non-profit scientific...

Team Building DICA staff

Team Building DICA staff

On 29 November, the technical-administrative staff of the Lecco campus and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering spent a day together on campus.A day out of the ordinary, a team building activity to increase cohesion and collaboration between...

Happy Holidays from DICA!

Happy Holidays from DICA!

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! -- https://youtube.com/shorts/QswPt0ahgNw?feature=share

Inauguration of the new Lerici Building

Inauguration of the new Lerici Building

On Monday 3 October the new Palazzina Lerici (Building 3A) was inaugurated, an area dedicated to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering which is spread over a basement and two floors above ground. Nine new tall trees have been planted on the three...

MOOC WAT 103 – Sustainable Urban Water Systems

MOOC WAT 103 – Sustainable Urban Water Systems

Today starts the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) WAT103 entitled: “Sustainable Urban Water Systems” held by Gianfranco Becciu, Mariana Marchioni, Anita Raimondi, Umberto Sanfilippo of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. To access the course,...

RemTech Degree & PhD Award to Gabriele Beretta

RemTech Degree & PhD Award to Gabriele Beretta

Congratulations to Eng. Gabriele Beretta, PhD in Environmental and Infrastructure engineering at DICA, for the “RemTech Degree & PhD Award”, conferred for degree/doctoral thesis on issues related to the remediation of contaminated sites and/or the innovative...

IALCCE 2023 – LIFE-CYCLE CIVIL ENGINEERING @ POLITECNICO DI MILANO

IALCCE 2023 – LIFE-CYCLE CIVIL ENGINEERING @ POLITECNICO DI MILANO

The Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering - IALCCE 2023 will be held in Milan, Italy, on July 2-6, 2023, under the auspices of Politecnico di Milano. The symposium, organized on behalf of the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil...

New DICA PhD Scholarships

New DICA PhD Scholarships

Thanks to the investments provided by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) and the resources made available by the Ministry of University and Research, the Politecnico di Milano announces 211 PhD scholarships aimed at carrying out research and innovation...

MOVIDA Project winner of the MINIMAX Competition

MOVIDA Project winner of the MINIMAX Competition

The MOVIDA project, coordinated by Prof. Daniela Molinari of DICA, has been awarded in the “MINIMAX competition: Solutions for managing water and climate extremes” by the Global Water Parternship, with the World Meteorological Organization, and the Water Climate...

Juan Fernando Toro wins the ISPRS Best Young Author Award

Juan Fernando Toro wins the ISPRS Best Young Author Award

Congratulations to Juan Fernando Toro for winning the ISPRS Best Young Author Award for his article "The open database of regional models of the International Service for the Geoid". The awards for Best Papers by Young Authors are provided by donor organizations and...

Switch2Product Innovation Challenge 2022

Switch2Product Innovation Challenge 2022

Applications are open for Switch2Product, the Innovation Programme organised by PoliHub, the Politecnico di Milano’s Technology Transfer Office, and Deloitte’s Officine Innovazione, created to support the creation of innovative startups, add...

Luca Zanetti wins the Best Presentation Award – SILFS

Luca Zanetti wins the Best Presentation Award – SILFS

Congratulations to Luca Zanetti for winning the Best Presentation Award in the General Philosophy of Science section at the recent conference of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS), held at the University of Milan Bicocca from 13 to 17 June...

ISPRS – Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli receives two appointments

ISPRS – Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli receives two appointments

We are glad to announce that Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli has received the President's Honorary Citation from the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and has also been elected Vice President of Commission IV on Spatial Information...

Horizon 2020 project ReSHEALience

Horizon 2020 project ReSHEALience

The Horizon 2020 project ReSHEALience coordinated by prof. Liberato Ferrara, from our Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, as approached its conclusion. Learn about the achievements of the project reading the final issue of the...

Waves in a Solid Imitate Twisted Light

Waves in a Solid Imitate Twisted Light

The article by Jacopo De Ponti, research fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with colleagues from Imperial College London, was selected for a "focus article" in the prestigious  Physical Review Letters magazine. Read the...

Mi-Pore!: porous media across scales @Polimi

Mi-Pore!: porous media across scales @Polimi

The research group MI-Pore!, based at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, is working on theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches for the characterization of porous materials across a wide range of applications...

ONE – HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY – Conference Video Contest

ONE – HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY – Conference Video Contest

In relation to the EFSA "One Health" conference, EFSA is holding a poster video contest and our Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is partecipating. The main authors receiving the most YouTube “likes” by Febraury 28th will be invited to deliver a live...

Call for Abstract per SURF2022 due to February 21st, 2022

Call for Abstract per SURF2022 due to February 21st, 2022

The call for abstract of SURF2022, series of highly successful international symposiums on data monitoring, pavement surface characteristics, life cycle analysis, innovative materials, sustainability and environmental impact, risk analysis and more, will be opened...

Congratulations to professor Maria Antonia Brovelli!

Congratulations to professor Maria Antonia Brovelli!

Congratulations to professor Maria Antonia Brovelli of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for achieving the role of Associate Editor for the ISPRS Journal (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). In particular, prof. Brovelli...

OPENING OF THE FIRST TWIN HUT AT THE PASSO DELLA CISA

OPENING OF THE FIRST TWIN HUT AT THE PASSO DELLA CISA

On 31 July, at the Passo della Cisa, the first TWIN Hut was opened, a welcoming structure for slow tourism along the Sentiero Italia CAI and the Via Francigena, built by the Politecnico di Milano and the Club Alpino Italiano as part of the TWIN - Trekking Walking and...

DICA@Politecnico di Milano Student Chapter

DICA@Politecnico di Milano Student Chapter

We are very happy to announce the establishment of the DICA@Politecnico di Milano Student Chapter in the framework of American Concrete Institute with professor Liberato Ferrara as faculty advisor. In particular, the creation of the student Chapter has been possible...

National invitation to tender for a thesis on Dam Engineering

The Italian National Committee for Large Dams (ITCOLD) announces a contest addressed to young graduates 2021-2022, who have to write their master of science graduation thesis. The topic, within the framework of Civil and Environmental Engineering,...

3D Modeling of the Castle of Pierluigi Farnese (Piacenza)

3D Modeling of the Castle of Pierluigi Farnese (Piacenza)

Professor Livio Pinto of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, interviewed by the daily newspaper Libertà of Piacenza, explains the activities carried out in the design laboratory of his course Relief technique and 3d modeling for the Architecture. In...

Congratulazioni al Professore Alberto Guadagnini!

Congratulazioni al Professore Alberto Guadagnini!

Il professore Alberto Guadagnini, direttore del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano, è stato nominato membro della European Academy of Sciences and Arts per i meriti e i risultati ottenuti in campo scientifico. L’associazione,...

Recovery & Final Sinks for an Effective Waste Management

Recovery & Final Sinks for an Effective Waste Management

Dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021 presso il campus di Piacenza del Politecnico di Milano, si terrà la quinta edizione del Convegno MatER dal titolo “Recovery & Final Sinks for an Effective Waste Management”, che si terrà in concomitanza con il 6° Convegno Internazionale sui...

Horizon Magazine: Intervista al professore Alberto Guadagnini

Horizon Magazine: Intervista al professore Alberto Guadagnini

Il professore Alberto Guadagnini del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, intervistato dall’ Horizon Magazine racconta gli obiettivi del progetto REMEDI (Trapping and Removal of X-ray Contrast Medium agents from water resource and stream Sediments- New...

Due studi condotti nell’ambito del progetto DESARC-MARESANUS

Due studi condotti nell’ambito del progetto DESARC-MARESANUS

L'aumento della CO2 nell'atmosfera e l'acidificazione degli oceani sono due grandi problematiche ambientali che vanno risolte. Per questo, vari ricercatori stanno studiando la tecnica denominata ocean alkalinization per ovviare a questo problema potenzialmente...

700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri

700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri

Dante è Sommo Poeta e padre della lingua italiana e, come tutti i letterati e gli umanisti, è al centro degli studi nelle Scienze umane. Ciononostante, proprio le Sezioni e le tematiche del DICA dovrebbero essere massimamente coinvolte negli studi ingegneristici...

Giornata Mondiale dell’Acqua

Giornata Mondiale dell’Acqua

Oggi si celebra la giornata mondiale dell’acqua.Assicurare la disponibilità e la gestione sostenibile dell’acqua e dei servizi igienici per tutti, come indicato dagli SDGs (Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile), è un argomento chiave nelle ricerche condotte al...

La nuova Brochure del DICA è finalmente online!

La nuova Brochure del DICA è finalmente online!

La nuova brochure del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano è finalmente online. Al suo interno, vengono presentati i laboratori, i corsi di Dottorato, le varie aree di Ricerca e tutto ciò che riguarda il Dipartimento: attività,...

SURF 2022: Call for Abstracts

SURF 2022: Call for Abstracts

La Call for Abstract per l’evento SURF2022 inizierà il 15 marzo 2021 e scadrà il 31 gennaio 2022. Il caricamento sarà possibile consultando il sito https://surf2022.org/. I temi principali del simposio saranno: - monitoraggio dei dati e valutazione delle performance-...