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Francesca Ceroni

Prof. Francesca Ceroni (MSc. in Environmental Engineering in 1999 and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 2003). From 2002 to 2015 she was researcher in Structural Engineering at the University of Sannio. From 2015 to 2023 she was associated professor at University of Napoli ‘Parthenope’ and from 2023 she is full professor. She has been teaching continuously since 2002 at University of Sannio and University ‘Parthenope’.

She has been scientific responsible/member of several national projects. The research activity is developed in various sectors of the structural engineering; in particular her study and original contribute are inserted in the following general fields: Bond behaviour at steel-concrete interface, Serviceability condition of r.c. structures, Use of innovative composite materials in structural civil applications (FRP sheet and bars as external reinforcement for r.c. and masonry elements, FRCM materials), Experimental tests on structures, existing buildings, especially masonry structures, vulnerability of masonry churches, RC bridges. All the topics are developed with experimental, theoretical and codes applications. She is reviewer for several international journals.

She has collaborated over the years with several national and international research groups, as testified by the papers where she is co-author. She is author of 230 technical papers published in proceedings of national (46) and international conferences (100), specialized international journal (74), national journal (3), chapter of scientific books (7). At 15/03/2023, on the database Scopus she had the following parameters: 132 documents, total number of citation of 3171, H index = 31.

She is a peer reviewer for several indexed international journals. She has been ranked in the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2021 and 2022, as published by Stanford University on Plos Biology.

 

Claudia Casapulla

Claudia Casapulla (MSc. in Architecture 1997 and Ph.D. in 2000) is Associate Professor in Structural Engineering (with awarded national scientific qualification as Full Professor) at the University of Napoli Federico II and, since 2002, Staff Member Responsible (SMR) for Laboratories, Courses and Modules of Structural Engineering at the host university (Bachelor and Master Levels).

She has been Principal Investigator of a Research Project funded by the Campania Region (L.R. n.5/02) and of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship funded within the EU Horizon 2020 framework (GA No. 791235). She has also been scientific responsible/member of several national projects, with grants supporting international stages in UK from 1998 to 2005 and currently has active collaborations with the universities of Sheffield (UK), Surrey (UK), Minho (PT) and Budapest (Hungary).

Her research interests are mainly focused on the seismic vulnerability of masonry structures and innovative modelling of their collapse behaviour under static and dynamic loadings, with experimental, theoretical and code applications. Particular fields of research are: computational analysis of 3D masonry assemblages of rigid blocks (FEM, DEM, limit analysis), seismic vulnerability of wall connections in the local mechanisms of masonry buildings, design of strengthening interventions with advanced innovative systems, development of fragility curves for masonry churches with reference to both the global and local behaviour.

She has authored over 150 original research papers, is a peer reviewer for over 40 indexed international journals and for the Italian scientific evaluation by REPRISE. She is an associate/academic editor of over 10 international journals and scientific committee member/chair for about 30 international conferences. She has been ranked in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2019, 2020 and 2021, as published by Stanford University on Plos Biology.

 

Luca Umberto Argiento

Arch. Luca Umberto Argiento (MSc. in Architecture in 2010 and Master in Architectonic and Environmental heritage in 2013) has been fellow researcher at the University of Napoli Federico II for several years and is now fellow researcher at University of Naples ‘Parthenope’ on the theme regarding the out-of-plane behaviour of masonry churches. His research has been particularly focused on behaviour of masonry structures and their retrofitting with reference to both the global behaviour and the local mechanisms, pushover analysis based on non-linear kinematic approach, development of empirical and theoretical fragility curves for masonry churches damaged by seismic events. He is author of several publications (about 30) on these themes.