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DIMS  Structural Engineering  Internationalization, Co-tuteles and Agreements

Dims - Structural Engineering Internationalization, Co-tuteles and Agreements

Agreements Co-tutoring International Collaborations Course Offered by Foreign Teachers

The internationalization level of the research school can be assessed using the following indicators.

Agreements

An agreement at the level of Graduate School is active with the following universities • Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA • Laboratoire d’Analyse des Matériaux et Identification, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France • Department of Building Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. • Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Joint Research Center, Ispra, EU • Department CGM, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. While an agreement is under development with the following centers: • “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania • Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University, Opole, Poland • European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, Pavia, Italy

Co-tutoring

Ph.D. student (Tutor)	Title of Ph.D. Thesis
Fabio Ferrario (Prof. Andrè Plumier)	Analysis of the seismic behaviour of high ductility steel-concrete composite structures University of Liège, Belgium
Roberto Tomasi (Prof. Robert Kliger)	Timber elements with concentrated ductility, spread ductility and pseudo-ductility: state of the art, reserach and development of new technologies Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
Silvano Erlicher (Prof. Nelly Point)	Hysteretic degrading models for the low-cycle fatigue behaviour of structural elements: theory, numerical aspects and applications Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France
Marco Remino (Prof. Enrico Spacone)	Shear modelling of reinforced concrete structures University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Marta Boso (Prof. Enrique Romero)	Experimental investigation of mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Gabriele Eccher (Prof. Kim Rasmussen)	Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia
Paola Moschini	Escuela Tecnica Superior de Madrid, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

International Collaborations

Thanks to international collaboration, many Ph.D. students have performed research activity abroad as shown below.
Ph.D. student	Cycle	Duration	Research Centre
Trentini Elena	14°	6 months	EMPA, Dubendorf, Switzerland
Erlicher Silvano	15°	21 months	Laboratoire d’Analyse des Matériaux et Identification, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France
Metelli Giovanni	15°	6 months	Department of Civil and Offshore Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Margonari Massimiliano	16°	6 months	Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Ferrario Fabio	16°	6 months	Department M & S, University of Liège, Belgium
Remino Marco	16°	12 months	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Piccolroaz Andrea	16°	3 months	Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
Boso Marta	17°	12 months	Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Da Porto Francesca	17°	6 months	Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Franceschini Giulia	18°	6 months	Computational Biomechanics Group, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Bertoldi Katia	18°	2 months	Riken, The Japanese Center of Chemical and Physical Research, Tokyo, Japan
Vulcan Leonardo	18°	11 months	Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
Preti Marco	18°	11 months	Dept. of Structural Engineering, University of California at San Diego, USA

Post-doc grants has been activated between the University of Trento and foreign research centres, as shown below.
Post-Doc	Duration	Research Centre
Erlicher Silvano	6+6 months	Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France
Brun Michele	3 months	University of Colorado at Boulder, USA