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Mary Jo Nichilo wins the 2024 Young Researchers LCA Award

Mary Jo Nichilo ranked first in the 2024 Young Researchers LCA Award. The awarded paper is titled “Avanzamenti metodologici nella quantificazione delle prestazioni ambientali dei centri del riuso” The award, given by Associazione Rete Italiana LCA, is aimed at young...

Malvina Ongaro won the Ortwin Renn Prize – Society of Risk Analysis Europe

Malvina Ongaro received one of the two "honorable mentions" for the Ortwin Renn Prize at the Society of Risk Analysis Europe conference. The awarded contribution, written in collaboration with Professor Lorenza Petrini, is titled "Philosophical Aspects of Cost-Benefit...

Manuela Antonelli receives the “Research, Innovation, and Water Sustainability Award – Women&Tech”

Congratulations to Prof. Manuela Antonelli for receiving the "Research, Innovation, and Water Sustainability Award" from Women&Tech – Associazione Donne e Tecnologie. The International Tecnovisionarie Award is given to women who, in their...

Leonardo Sandoval wins the “Gustavo Sclocchi” Thesis Award

Leonardo Sandoval, a Postdoctoral Researcher in our Department, has been awarded the "Gustavo Sclocchi" Thesis Award 2023-2024 in the "Outstanding" category. The award, now in its 31st edition, is organized by the Italian Section of the SPE (Society of Petroleum...

Sara Donzelli – CIAS award in the ‘Seismicity’ section

Sara Donzelli, a Civil Engineering student and now a PhD candidate at DICA in the Structural, Seismic, and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSG) program, has won the CIAS award for the best thesis on the topic “Existing Constructions, from Experimentation to Interventions”...

Professor Luca Martinelli and Francesco Foti awarded during the OIPEEC 2024 conference

Francesco Foti and Professor Luca Martinelli were awarded during the biennial conference of the Organization Internationale Pour l'Etude des Cables (OIPEEC) in 2024, where 157 delegates from 27 nations gathered to discuss the latest developments in the cable industry....

Regina Bianchi awarded at the SEG Virtual Student Conference

Regina Bianchi, a PhD candidate in the 39th cycle of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the first prize for her presentation titled "Long-term ERT monitoring of a critical slope to help observe rainfall-triggered instabilities" at the 8th...

DICA Olympic Games 2nd Edition!

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...

ERC Advanced Grant to Alberto Corigliano for project IMMENSE

Congratulations to Alberto Corigliano, full professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at our Department, for being awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for the five-year project IMMENSE (Inter materials and structures...

MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships call 2024

Politecnico di Milano is launching the 7th edition of the MSCA PF masterclass for potential applicants to the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships call 2024. The aim of the MSCA PF masterclass is to attract and train young and talented researchers to successfully...