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Research project: Intelligent Sensor Systems for Structural Health Monitoring Applications

July 2017-current: Working as collaborator at ARCES-Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems “Ercole De Castro” mainly concerning Vibrational Analysis applied to civil and industrial structures.

July 2018: Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering 110/110 cum Laude, curriculum Electronics, University of Bologna. Thesis title: “Tecniche di Signal Processing per l’Analisi Modal in applicazioni SHM". Advisors: Prof. Luca De Marchi, Co-advisor: Prof. Nicola Testoni.

September 2016- July 2018: Student, Electronic Engineering, University of Bologna.

September 2016- July 2018: Student, Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna.

November 2017-September 2018: Degree Programme Tutor for Master in Electronic Engineering course, University of Bologna.

September 2013-July 2016: Student, Electronics Engineering for Energy and Information, University of Bologna.

Her research interests are focused on Signal Processing, Non-Destructive Evaluation testing, Spectral Analysis, Modal Analysis, Fog Computing, Data Fusion, Compressive Sensing, Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical System. Technical skills include Matlab, VHDL, HDL languages.

Research project: Structural health monitoring of storage tank

September 2015 - July 2017: Master of Science in Information and Measurement Systems, Omsk State Technical University, Russia. Thesis title: «Development of a system for dangerous defect detection by means of acoustic emission continuous monitoring». Advisor: Prof. Naumenko Alexander.  Diploma with honors.

March 2017: Vibration and Acoustic Emission certification course, I-st level. Research and Training Center «Non-Destructive Testing and Machine Diagnostics», Russia.

September 2009 - July 2014: Specialist degree in Devices, Methods of Quality Control and Diagnostic, Omsk State Technical University, department of Radio Engineering, Russia. Thesis title: “Radiographic inspection of welds: application of the build-up areas for digital X-ray images". Advisor: Assistant Prof. Ionov Boris.  Diploma with honors.

August 2014 - October 2018: Engineer of the Research and Development Department, DYNAMICS Scientific Production Center, Russia. Main activities: applications of innovative techniques in metrological testing of acoustic-emission equipment,  implementation of new methods of complex diagnostic practice for petrochemical production facilities, development of algorithms for automatic decision-making expert system applied in systems of constant monitoring over stationary equipment.

His research interests are Non-Destructive Testing, SHM, development of acoustic emission testing models. His dissertation research focuses on tank damage monitoring via AE to assess the hazard level.

Research project: Structural Health Monitoring of Railway Bridges

Research project: Development of a surface cloak/wave guide for seismic waves

Since May 2020, Marie Curie research fellow-ITN INSPIRE project (https://itn-inspire.eu), based at the University of Bologna (UNIBO).

2014-2019, School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he graduated in July 2019 (5-year Diploma) with a  thesis in the field of Computational Mechanics, including Boundary and Finite Element Techniques for the local Buckling Analysis of Beams, under the supervision of Prof. Evangelos Sapountzakis. During his undergraduate studies, he co-authored and presented two papers at national and international conferences. He has also interned with G. Papamichail Mitakidi & Partners Architectural Design Office, based on Psychico, Athens.

His research interests are in Structural and Soil Dynamics, as well as Wave propagation combined with Meta-materials and Mathematical Models. He believes that Meta-materials are a novel idea that can be implemented in the Soil-Foundation-Structure principles, creating a bulwark for the future structures.

Research project: Transducers and Sensor-near Signal Processing for SHM of Composite Structures

Since November 2020: Marie Curie Actions ITN Ph.D. Fellow in the GW4SHM project (http://gw4shm.eu) at the University of Bologna.

January 2018 - August 2020: Research assistant at K.N. Toosi University of Technology

The main activity can be divided into three categories: 1) Wave propagation and frequency analysis of composite materials, especially for nanocomposite cylindrical shells  2) Structural health monitoring and control (buildings, bridges, dams, thermal and wind power plants) through vibration-based approaches  3) Seismic assessment of buildings (machine learning approach, simulation)

January 2017 - August 2019: Teaching Assistant on Random Vibrations, K.N Toosi University of Technology.

October 2014 - September 2017: Master’s Degree in Structural and Earthquake Engineering with a GPA of 3.9/4, K.N. Toosi University of Technology. Thesis: “Numerical and experimental assessment of vibration-based damage detection methods.” The thesis contains numerical and experimental parts focusing on the vibration-based SHM techniques, namely FE model updating, time-frequency analysis (Wavelet transform, Hilbert transform), modal strain energy, digital image correlation, optimal sensor placement, etc. The experimental tests were carried out using both commercial and low-cost MEMS accelerometers. Seismic damage detection was also investigated using a novel methodology.

October 2010 - September 2014: Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University. The application of MATLAB in civil engineering practices was investigated.

Research project: Development and optimization of microcontroller-based sensor networks for monitoring structures

June - October 2019: Research fellow at ARCES - Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems “Ercole De Castro”, University of Bologna.

March 2019: Master Degree in Electronics Engineering (cum laude), from the University of Bologna. Thesis Title:''Sviluppo di un phantom per l’analisi del flusso in carotidi mediante acquisizioni ultrasoniche'' ("Development of a phantom for analysis of carotid flow by ultrasonic acquisitions"). Supervisor: Prof. Luca De Marchi.

May 2015 - May 2019: R&D Engineer by GH Enterprise, in charge of design and development of embedded systems.

His research interests focus on signal processing, compressed sensing, neural networks, embedded systems development, ultrasonic measurements. Technical skills include electronic circuit design and coding in languages like C, Javascript, Python and Matlab.

Research project: Compensation of Environmental and Operational variability in Structural Health Monitoring

Research project: Structural health monitoring using operational modal analysis with localization.

Research project: Defect detection and prediction on composite pressure vessels.

Research project: Use of machine learning algorithms for in-line Structural health monitoring of metallic pressure vessels.