Umberto Perego extended CV
UMBERTO PEREGO, born 27/01/1958 in Milan, Italy
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES
1981: "Laurea" (Master degree) with honours (“cum laude”) in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano.
1987: Doctorate in Structural Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1990: assistant professor in Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Milano.
1992: associate professor in Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Milano.
2001: full professor in Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Milano.
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
1985: Applied Mechanics Research Unit at the University of Cape Town (Republic of South Africa) (6 months).
1987 – 1988: Division of Engineering of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (15 months).
1990: Division of Engineering of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (1 month).
1996: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
1997: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
1998: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
1999: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
2000: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
2006: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
2013: LMT-École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (France) (1 month)
HONOURS
2002: “Bruno Finzi” Prize for rational mechanics by the “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”.
2008: elected Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM).
MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
1989-1996: member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Advances in Engineering Software".
2001-2007: Associate Editor of the “European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids”.
2007-to date: member of the Editorial Board of the “European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids”.
2009-to date: member of the Editorial Board of the “Open Numerical Methods Journal”.
2012-to date: member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences”.
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMMISSIONS
1989-1996: “Expert” in the Activity Group 2 of the Working Group on Codes and Standards of the EC.
1995-1998 and 1999-2000: member of the National Steering Committee of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC).
2001-2004: Chairman of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC).
2001-2010: member of the ECCAE (Computer Aided Engineering) Committee of ECCOMAS (European Community on COmputational Methods in Applied Sciences).
2004-2012: chairman of the CCOSMM (Centre for Computational Structural and Materials Mechanics) at the Politecnico of Milan.
2005-2013: elected member for Italy in the IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) General Council.
2008 to date: elected vice-chairman of the ECCOMAS Committee ECCSM (Computational, Solid and Structural Mechanics).
2010-2017: designated member of the Scientific Committee of the AIMETA Summer School on "Scienze e Tecnologie per l’lngegneria" in Sperlonga (LT).
2017 to date: is nominated member of the ECCOMAS General Assembly as representative of AIMETA/GIMC.
2017 to date: is elected member of the Managing Bureau of AIMETA.
CHAIRMANSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MINISYMPOSIA
2001: together with O. Allix is the Chairman of the “First Csma-Gimc Joint Workshop on Modern Issues in Modelling and Computation of Damage and Failure”, Cefalù, Italy, 7 – 9 June 2001.
2002: together with A. Ferrante is the Chairman of the “Third Joint Conference of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics and the Ibero-Latin American Association of Computational Methods in Engineering”, Giulianova, 24 – 26 June 2002.
2006: together with O. Allix and N. Moes is the Chairman of the International Conference on “Challenges in Computational Mechanics Modeling”, Cachan, France 10-12 May 2006.
2008: together with Bernhard Schrefler is Chairman of the joint “8th World Congress of Computational Mechanics-5th ECCOMAS Congress”, in Venice, 30 June-4 July, 2008.
2015 June: together with Jean-Philippe Ponthot is the Chairman and organizer of the Minisymposium “Modeling of cutting, puncturing, blanking and similar processes”, at CFRAC 2015 - 4th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, (June 3 - 5, 2015, Paris (Cachan), France).
2015 July: together with Erasmo Carrera, is the Chairman and organizer of the Minisymposium “Computational Models for Shells including Laminates and Multifield Loadings”, at the ESMC2015 - 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (July 6 - 10, 2015, Madrid, Spain).
2017 June: together with S. Ostlund and R. Peerlings is co-Chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 592 on “Deformation and Damage Mechanisms of Wood-Fibre Network-Materials and Structures”, 7 June – 9 June 2017 (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden).
INVITED PLENARY/KEYNOTE LECTURES AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2001 November: invited to deliver a Plenary Lecture at the XXV CILAMCE Conference in Campinas, Brazil.
2008 October: invited to deliver a Semi-Plenary Lecture titled “Computational mechanics simulations of the forming process of carton packages for beverages” at the TCN-CAE 2008 International Conference on Simulation Based Engineering and Sciences, Mestre, Italy.
2009 June: invited to deliver a Semi-Plenary Lecture titled “Computational models for the simulation of the forming process of carton packages”, at the 2nd South East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Rhodes.
2010 May: invited to deliver a Semi-Plenary Lecture titled “Shell Interface Finite Elements for the Simulation of Folding and Cutting of Composite Laminates” at the 4th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM) in Paris.
2010 July: invited to deliver a Keynote Lecture titled “Simulation of blade cutting of thin shells by “directional” cohesive interface elements” within the Minisymposium on Material Failure, organized by Francisco Armero and Xavier Oliver at the WCCM/APCOM 2010 conference in Sidney.
2013 June: invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the Third International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC 2013), Prague, 5-7 June 2013.
2013 August: invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the 20th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, August 27-31, 2013, Poznan, Poland.
2014 July: invited to deliver a semi-plenary lecture at the joint WCCM – ECCM – ECFD 2014 in Barcelona.
2016 June: is invited to deliver a Keynote Lecture within the Minisymposium on “Particle-Based Methods in Fluid Mechanics”, within the VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, 5 - 10 June 2016).
2017 July: is invited to deliver a Plenary Lecture at the SEECCM 2017 - 4th South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics (03-04 July, Kragujevac, Serbia).
2017 July: is invited to deliver a Plenary Lecture at FDM – 16th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (18-20th July 2017, Florence, Italy).
2018 June: is invited to deliver a Keynote Lecture within the Minisymposium on “Recent advances in damage mechanics”, at the ESMC 2018 – 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (Bologna, 2-6 July 2018).
2018 July: is invited to deliver a Keynote Lecture within the Minisymposium on “Progressive Damage Analysis (PDA) and Mechanism Based Failure Predictions of Composites”, at WCCMXIII and PANACM II - 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and 2nd Pan American Congress on Applied Mechanics (July 22-27, 2018, New York City, USA).
AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
The research activity has been carried out in the field of computational structural mechanics, with particular attention to: computational plasticity, computational damage mechanics, computational fracture mechanics, computational material modelling, fluid-structure interaction.
PUBLICATIONS
More than 180 papers in international peer reviewed journals and conferences.