Filippo Berto - Top Italian Scientist in Engineering
Filippo Berto is Chair of Mechanics of Materials at La Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment. He received the Phd from University of Florence in 2006 and the master degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Padua in 2003. He has been international chair in fracture mechanics, fatigue, and structural integrity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, since beginning of 2015 to September 2022 where he was the founder of the mechanical laboratory for testing materials that was built receiving financial support from different sources (internal funding, infrastructure funding asked to Research Council of Norway). He was professor of machine design at the University of Padua, Italy, between 2006 and 2015. He is chairman of the technical committee ESIS TC15 on Structural Integrity of additive manufactured components of European Structural Integrity Society and founder of the related conference ESIAM (www.esiam.site) together with Prof. Torgersen. Filippo Berto received several awards and distinctions, such as Award of Merit (2018) and Wohler medal (2020) from the European Structural Integrity Society. He has received the Stephen Timoshenko Fellow (2018) given by University of Stanford (USA) where he has spent some visiting periods. He is editor-in-chief or Editor of several scientific journals, such as, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Material Design and Processing Communications and Materials. In addition, he belongs to the editorial board of several leading scientific journals in the area of fatigue, fracture and structural integrity, such as, Materials & Design, International Journal of Fatigue, Safety Science, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Advanced Engineering Materials, Polymer Testing, Strength of Materials, among others. Filippo Berto is also voting member of ASTM F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies and ASTM E08 on Metal Fatigue and Fracture. He is collaborating with the Centre of Excellence of additive manufacturing established in Auburn and in particular with Nima Shamsaei and Mohsen Seifi who is chair of additive manufacturing programs in ASTM. As technical Chair of TC15 is also the founder of the series of European conferences on additive manufacturing ESIAM (www.esiam.site). In 2020 he has been one of the founders of TC18 of ESIS dedicated to the structural integrity of welded structures. Filippo Berto has a major role in the Italian Group of Fracture being president since 2021 and co-editor in chief of the associated journal. He is also vice-president of the European Society of Structural Integrity since June 2022. He is also holding some honorary chair professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong) and Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa). In 2021, Filippo Berto was awarded with the Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University through the Changjiang Scholars Program. He has been collaborating with CERN until the end of 2022 for testing and characterizing materials for The Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Filippo Berto was an adjunct professor at the prestigious Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben. He has been an adjunct professor at SUPSI University in Switzerland until the beginning of 2023 Berto has educated more than 20 PhDs students and more than 200 master students. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General information Date of Birth: 12 February 1978 Place of Birth: Vicenza (Italy) Citizenship: Italian Education 2003 Master degree in industrial engineering at University of Padova 2006 Phd in Mechanical Engineering and Structural Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Firenze, Italy. Work Experience Nov 2006 - Sept 2014 Assistant Professor of Mechanics of Materials Department of Management and Engineering (DTG), University of Padova Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 Associate Professor of Mechanics of Materials, Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova (Italy) Jan 2014 - ongoing Research collaboration with Cimolai 2018 (July-August) ‘S. Timoshenko Fellowship in Solid Mechanics’, Dep. Mech. Eng. Stanford University Apr 2016 – Sep 2022 Founder and head of the mechanical and material testing laboratory at MTP, NTNU External funding have been achieved for the construction of the laboratory together with Prof. A. Vinogradov. Jan 2019 – Dec 2022 Research Collaboration with Cern Jan 2019 – Ongoing Collaboration with the Centre of Excellence of additive manufacturing established in Auburn and in particular with Nima Shamsaei and Mohsen Seifi who is chair of additive manufacturing programs in ASTM. Current research topics •Physical and mechanical properties of traditional and innovative metals considering multiscale effects in terms of damage and degradation •Effect of process parameters on the mechanical properties of additively manufacture metals •Effect of process parameters on the mechanical behaviour of innovative solid-state multi-metals weldments •Physical and mechanical properties of traditional and innovative metals in presence of defects •SEM/TEM characterization of crack initiation and propagation in metallic materials •Mechanical behaviour of magnesium alloys for biomedical applications •Hot-dip galvanization and its influence on the mechanical behaviour of metal •Atomic layer deposition and other advanced techniques for coatings of metals •Physical and mechanical properties of metallic weldments •Physical and mechanical properties of pure lead used for nuclear applications (in collaboration with CERN) •Mechanical behaviour of metals under complex loadings and environmental conditions •Local approaches and their application to fatigue (material) Honorary Positions Jan 2021 - June 2023 Honorary Changjiang Chair at Xi'an Jiaotong Un. (Changjiang Scholars Program) Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 Adjunct Chair Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austria Jul 2020 – May 2023 Adjunct Chair of Mechanics of Materials, SUPSI, Switzerland Jan 2019 - ongoing Adjunct Chair of Mechanics of Materials at Mandela Metr. University, South Africa Apr 2016 - ongoing Adjunct Chair at Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jan 2016 - Dec 2019 Adjunct Chair, Dep. Mech. Eng., Aalto University History of supervision More than 20 Phd students as main supervisor since 2006; More than 200 final undergraduate and more than 200 master student projects from 2004 to 2016. Commission of trust Founder and Co-chair of European Technical Committee on Welding (ESIS, TC18) Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Science Since 2021 President of the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) and Editor in Chief of the IGF journal Since 2016 European Chair of Technical Committee TC15 on Additive Materials (ESIS). Since 2019 Founder of the conference ESIAM together with Prof. Jan Torgersen (www.esiam.site) Since 2016 Voting Member of ASTM F42 on Additive Mater. and organizer of different events for ASTM Since 2014 Voting Member of ASTM E08 on Fracture and Fatigue of Metals and of ISO standards Since 2014 European Editor of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Wiley Since 2012 Editorial board member of several journals in the field of fatigue and fracture Since 2006 Examiner of 65 PhD thesis Since 2002 Reviewer for more than 300 journals (more than 2000 reviews) Accordingly to the Stanford ranking 2022, he is among the first twenty positions in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Transports and among the first 3 positions dealing with fracture and fatigue problems. Accordingly to the Scopus Database, he is a top author in the last 5 years (2015–2020) in several topics such as (V-notches, Strain Energy Density, T-Stress), where he is also among the first three top authors in fatigue.
Mechanics of Materials Structural Integrity Fatigue Fracture Mechanics Materials Science and Engineering Additive Manufacturing Data-Driven Design Scale Effect Fatigue of Metals Fatigue of cables


Rank: 15
H-Index: 88
Citations: 28436
Nation: Italy
Area: Engineering Mechanics - Mechanics of Materials - Metals
Macroarea: Engineering
Italian Institution(s): Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Notes: Stephen Timoshenko Fellow 2018 at Stanford.
Rank: 15
H-Index: 88
Citations: 28436
Nation: Italy
Area: Engineering Mechanics - Mechanics of Materials - Metals
Macroarea: Engineering
Italian Institution(s): Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Notes:  Stephen Timoshenko Fellow 2018 at Stanford.