Master degree in Construction Engineering at the University of Palermo on 15/11/2010PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Palermo on 7/3/2016 with the thesis “3D fractional viscoelasticity with applications to structural engineering”.Visiting PhD Student at the “Department of Engineering Science”, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), from October 2014 to September 2015.Postdoc at…
Valentina Laface (female) is Civil Engineer and PhD in Ocean Engineering. Currently, she is assistant professor at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC) (Italy) and at Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL -www.noel.unirc.it). Her expertise concerns the short and long-term statistics of ocean waves, including the knowledge of models for ocean storm analysis and prediction, analysis of…
Giovanni Malara is Associate Professor in Marine Engineering at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Energia, Ambiente e Materiali (DICEAM) of the Università degli Studi “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria (Italy). He works in the fields of: wave energy converters; mechanics of extreme sea waves both in homogeneous and non-homogeneous fields; short- and long- term statistics; wave forces…
Giuseppe Failla (Male) is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Materials Engineering, at the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy). He earned a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering at the University of Palermo in 2001. He has a 16-year experience in teaching Mechanics of Structures, Theory of Structures and Structural Dynamics at the University of Reggio Calabria….
Alessandra Romolo is Associate professor in Ocean Engineering at UNIRC. In the 2014, She attained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Italian University in the sector Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Marine Constructions. She obtained the Ph.D. degree in Maritime Engineering at UNIRC. Her research activities are involved in the analysis of coastal structures for…
Giuseppe Barbaro is Full Professor of Hydraulics at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. His fields of interest include: mechanics of random sea waves; statistical properties of nonlinear random waves (short-term statistics); long-term statistics for the prediction of severe storms; coastal processes; random forces of sea waves on either coastal or offshore structures. He has published more…
Vincenzo Fiamma (male) is Assistant professor of Ocean Engineering at UNIRC. He is author of more than 20 papers published in international journals and in peer reviewed conference proceeding. He cooperated with Professor Boccotti to execute some experimental research directly at sea in the coastal and ocean engineering field, since 1991. Since 1996, he is member…
Felice Arena (male) is Full Professor in Ocean Engineering at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and Director of the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory. His fields of interest for the research activity include: nonlinear sea waves; short-term and long-term statistics of ocean waves; random forces of sea waves on either coastal or offshore structures; new devices for…
Paolo Boccotti (1952) is emeritus professor of ocean engineering at the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, where he was professor since 1986; since 2016 he is emeritus professor. Here, he and his students have built the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory NOEL, which is the first to operate in the field rather than in the laboratory…