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John E. Bolander is a professor within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1989. He belonged to the faculty of engineering at Kyushu University, Japan, for five years prior to arriving at UC Davis in 1994. He received the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the College of Engineering in 2006. Bolander has served as the chief editor of the international journal Cement and Concrete Composites for the period of 2006-2012. He received fellowship awards for computational mechanics research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1997 and 2008. Bolander’s research and teaching interests involve the effective use of high-performance materials within the civil infrastructure, with emphasis on the life-cycle performance of concrete materials and structures. Over the past two decades, he has been a pioneering developer of discrete methods for the modeling concrete materials, including fiber reinforced cement composites.
Graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Torino, she obtained the Master in Conservation of modern heritage at the Institute of Architecture of Geneva and the Phd in History of architecture at Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on the architectural structures of the Labor Palace by Pier Luigi Nervi for the Exposition Italia ’61 in Turin. Her field of research is the architecture of second half of 20th century and the related policies and projects of conservation. She gave courses on conservation of contemporary architecture at Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, EPFL Lausanne and Accademia di Mendrisio (Switzerland). In 2011 she took part in the research project "Art and science of building” of Politecnico di Torino in cooperation with Politecnico di Milano, IUAV University in Venice and La Sapienza University in Rome. She participated in many international congresses on conservation of contemporary architecture. She is the scientific consultant for the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association devoted to the preservation of Nervi’s built heritage, and is editor of the International Exhibition “Pier Luigi Nervi. Architecture as Challenge” presented in a large number of locations in Italy and worldwide, and of the related catalogue. She co-edited other Italian and international exhibitions on contemporary architecture. She is past member of the Council Board of Docomomo Italy, a subsection of Docomomo International the organization devoted to Documentation and Conservation of Buildings and Sites of Modern Movement. She is deputy editor of the Italian magazine “Il Giornale dell'Architettura” and partner of ComunicArch Associates, an agency specialized in communicating architecture.
Professor Emeritus of Structural Mechanics and former Vice-Rector at Politecnico di Torino, he also served as Professor of Theory and Design of Structures and of Structural Analysis of Masonry and Monumental Structures, after being Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice. He has been visiting Professor in Japan and India and gave lectures in many Universities around the world. He is Full Member of the Turin Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Honorary Member of ACI American Concrete Institute, life member of fib International Federation of Structural Concrete. He is Honorary President of ACI Italy Chapter, member of ACI Committee Faculty Network, past member of ACI 318 International Liaison Committee and of ACI International Advisory Committee. and past Chair of ACI Committee 209 “Creep and Shrinkage in Concrete”. He is member or past-member of several other international organizations and related technical committees, like CEB, IASS, IABSE, RILEM. He has been member of the honorary and/or scientific committees and invited speaker of many international congresses on structural engineering and structural architecture. His main scientific interests concern aging linear viscoelasticity and its application to the analysis of the structural effects of time-dependent behaviour of concrete, the durability of concrete structures and the related conservation strategies, the analysis and assessment of monumental structures, the relations between structures and architecture and the history of structural mechanics. He has been a designer of large concrete structures, including bridges, tall buildings and chimneys.
Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, he is member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, professor of Structural Design and Design of Environmental and Protective Structures. Coordinator of the Specializing Master Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation at the School of Civil, Environmental and Territorial Engineering, head of the Laboratory of Materials and Structures in Lecco Campus since 1998, Head of the Department of Structural Engineering from 2009 to 2012, he is member of Presidium and national delegate of fib, coordinator of RILEM TC Impact & Explosion, member of the Commission CNR on National Standards, member of numerous national and international technical committees on fiber-reinforced materials (fib TG4.1, TG4.2, TG10.1), convener of the Technical Commission CEN TC250/SC2/WG1/TG2 for the introduction of FRC in EC2, Series Editor of Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, member of the editorial board of ISI magazine Cement and Concrete Composites published by Elsevier and Honorary Editor of the ISI journal European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering,. From 1 January 2018, he is also Technical Director of the DSC-ERBA Engineering Company.
Barzin Mobasher obtained his BS, MS, and PhD. in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Northeastern University, and Northwestern University in 1983, 1985, and 1990 respectively. After a two year career in Industry, he joined Arizona State University in 1991 as Assistant Professor of Structural Materials. He has been a professor of engineering at the School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment at ASU since 2004. Dr. Mobasher has led programs involved with the design, analysis, materials testing, and full-scale structural testing of construction, structural, and aerospace materials. His publications include two books on fiber and textile reinforced concrete, five edited books, and more than 150 research papers in leading professional journals and conference proceedings. His fundamental contributions in the fields of fiber and textile reinforced concrete materials and mechanics of toughening in UHPC cement based systems, extends to durability modeling and experimental mechanics. He has served as the Chair of American Concrete Institute, ACI committee 544 on Fiber Reinforced Concrete, and is currently serving Technical Activities Committees of both ACI and RILEM.
Dr.Gregory G. Penelis, MSc, DIC, Phd is as structural engineer graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, holds a post graduate degree in Earthquake Engineering from Imperial College and a Phd in nonlinear dynamics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. |
BOLANDER John E.
CHIORINO Cristiana
CHIORINO Mario A.
MOBASHER Barzin 
