Education
| 1985 | Civil Engineering Degree, University of Bologna, Awarded Hons. |
| 1986 | Consulting Engineer for ISMES s.p.a., Bergamo, Italy. |
| 1989 | Visiting Research Associate at Duke University, Durham, N.C., U.S.A. |
| 1990 to 1998 | Assistant Professor at Istituto di Scienza delle Costruzioni, University of Bologna, Italy. |
| 1991 | Ph.D. Dissertation: Localization of deformation and bifurcation in incremental nonassociative elastoplasticity: applications to brittle-cohesive materials (in Italian). |
| 1992 | Visiting Engineer at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Bath University, Bath, U.K. |
| 1993 | Visiting Faculty at the Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A. |
| 1995 | Visiting Faculty at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. |
| 1997 | Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire Sols, Solides,Structures of Grenoble, France. |
| 1998 to 2001 | Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, University of Trento, Italy. |
| 2000 | Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. |
| 2001 | Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, University of Trento, Italy. |
| 2001 | Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland. |
| 2001 to 2004 | Head of the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Italy. |
| 2002 | Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. |
| 2004 | Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Austria. |
| 2004 | Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland. |
| 2005 | Visiting Faculty at the Department of Engineering Phyiscs University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA. |
| 2006 | Coordinator of the PhD program in Solid and Structural Mechanics of the university of Trento, Italy. |
| 2006 | Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK. |
| 2007 | Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK. |
| 2008 | Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool and University of Aberystwyth, UK. |
Teaching Experiences
| since 1990 | Graduate and undergraduate courses: Theory and Design of Structures, Elements of Continuum Mechanics, Solid Mechanics. Graduate courses: Nonlinear Elasticity, Large Strain Elastoplasticity, Fracture Mechanics. |
| 1999 | Cism course 414: Material instabilities in elastic and plastic solids, Coordinator Prof. H. Petryk, 13-17 September 1999. |
| 2001 | Course: Mechanical behaviour of advanced ceramics: forming and service conditions , Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Structures, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, 17-24 September 2001. |
| 2004 | Course: Material Instabilities in Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Graz, January 2004. |
| 2004 | EPSRC Mathematics for Engineers Summer School: Advances in Continuum Mechanics. The nonlinear deformation of solids , Durham University, September 2006. |
Research Awards
2009 EUROMECH Fellow (of the European Mechanics Society).
Membership activities
Secretary and Treasurer of The International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM).
Member of the EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference Committee
Referee Activities
Editorial Activity:
- from 2009: Co-Editor of Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures;
- from 2009: Associate Editor of Mechanics Research Communications (Pergamon Press).
Editorial Board memberships:
- from 1996 to 2005: International Journal of Solids and Structures (Pergamon Press);
- from 2004: Archives of Mechanics (Archiwum Mechaniki Stosowanej), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw;
- from 2005 to 2009 Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP).
Panel Member for the European Research Council Starting Grants.
Reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Research Grants (UK).
Reviewer for the United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation.
Reviewer for The Israel Science Foundation.
Reviewer for Italian PRIN (COFIN) MiUR and CIVR.
Reviewer for NATO Collaborative Research Grants.
Referee for the following international journals:
- Acta Geotechnica;
- AIAA Journal;
- Applied Physics Letters;
- Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology;
- CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences;
- Computational Materials Science;
- Computational Mechanics;
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering;
- Comptes Rendus Mecanique;
- Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics;
- Engineering Fracture Mechanics;
- European Journal of Mechanics;
- IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics;
- International Journal of Fracture;
- International Journal of Impact Engineering;
- International Journal of Mechanical Sciences;
- International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics;
- International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics;
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering;
- Iranian Journal of Science and Technology. Transaction B: Engineering;
- Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME;
- Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, ASME;
- Journal of Elasticity;
- Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE;
- Journal of Impact Engineering;
- Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids;
- Journal of Sound and Vibration;
- Journal of Vibration and Control;
- Materials Research;
- Materials Science and Engineering: A;
- Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids;
- Mathematical Reviews;
- Meccanica;
- Mechanics Research Communications;
- Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering;
- Philosophical Magazine;
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A;
- Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics;
- SIAM Journal Applied Mathematics;
- Waves in Random and Complex Media;
- ZAMM (Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik);
- ZAMP (Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik).
General Lectures
"Different manifestations of material instability in granular media" 35th Solid Mechanics Conference, Kraków, Poland, September 4-8, 2006.
"Material instabilities in elastic and plastic solids" XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, Australia, August 24-30, 2008.
"Material instabilities and the perturbative approach in Solid Mechanics" Workshop: Material Theories, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH, December 13-20, 2009.
Congress Organization
D. Bigoni is in the scientific committee of the IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotics, Singularities and Homogeneization in Problems of Mechanics, July 8-11, 2002, Liverpool, UK.
Together with Prof. Henryk Petryk, D. Bigoni is co-chairman for the Pre-nominated Session on Material Instabilities at the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 15-21, 2004, Warsaw, Poland.
D. Bigoni is in the scientific committee of the Euromech Colloquium 464 on Fibre-reinforced solids: constitutive laws and instabilities, September 28 - October 1, 2004, University of Cantabria, Santander, SP.
Together with Prof. Ahmed Benallal, D. Bigoni is co-chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 474 on Material instabilities in coupled problems, September 2005, Troyes, FR.
D. Bigoni is in the scientific committee of the XVII AIMETA Congress, September 11-15, 2005, University of Firenze.
D. Bigoni is the organizer of the 1st Meeting of the Group "Aimeta Materiali" (GMA06), Trento, February 23-24, 2006.
D. Bigoni is in the scientific committee of the congress: Thermo-Mechanical Modelings for Solids, July 9-12, 2007, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FR.
D. Bigoni and Prof. L. Deseri are the organizers the congress: ISDMM09, July 6-9, 2009, Trento.
D. Bigoni is in the scientific committee of the congress: 7th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, September 7-11, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Grants and Contracts
D. Bigoni is responsible for the following grants:
- Research Grant "Multiscale problems with complex interactions in structural engineering", MIUR Cofin 2007 (2007-2009); total funding to the research unit: 73.2 kEuro .
- Research Grant "Interface models in Solid Mechanics: Continuum/discrete transition and microstructural effects", MIUR Cofin 2005 (2006-2007); total funding to the research unit: 57.6 kEuro .
- Research Grant "Fundamental micromechanics of fracture in ductile single crystals", 2002-2005, MIUR 26-1-2001, in cooperation with Prof. Walter J. Drugan (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA); total funding: 108 kEuro .
- Research Grant "Fenomeni di degrado meccanico di interfacce in sistemi strutturali: Applicazioni in ingegneria civile ed a campi di ricerca emergenti", MIUR Cofin 2003 (2004-2005); total funding to the research unit: 45 kEuro .
- CNR-NATO fellowship for basic sciences "Mathematical models for crack propagation in pre-stressed elastic composites and pre-polarized crystals", granted to Prof. E.M. Craciun (University of Constanta, Romania); June-July 2004, total funding: 4.2 kEuro .
