Michele CALVELLO | Curriculum

Michele Calvello was born in Potenza (Italy) on 20 October 1973. He is Full Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy), where he currently teaches “Soil mechanics” and “Landslide Risk”, respectively offered within the Bachelor Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and within the Master Degree in Environmental and Land Management Engineering. He graduated with honours in Civil Engineering from Università della Basilicata (Potenza, Italy) in 1997 and he earned a PhD degree from Northwestern University (Evanston, USA) in 2002, with a dissertation on ‘Inverse analysis of a supported excavation through Chicago glacial clays’.

His main research interests are focused on the engineering analysis of geotechnical boundary value problems, on the analysis and management of landslide risk, and on a series of topics requiring inter-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary approaches, including: natural hazards, disaster risk management, early warning systems, risk perception, research on education and knowledge dissemination. He is the Principal Investigator of the Horizon Europe project “The HuT. The Human-Tech Nexus – Building a Safe Haven to cope with Climate Extremes”. He is a founding member and past-President (currently member of the Executive Committee) of LandAware – the international network on landslide early warning systems. He is the co-Coordinator of the LARAM School, an International School for PhD students on "LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation". He is President of the Technical Committee TC-306 "Geo-Engineering Education" and member of the Technical Committees TC-304 "Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management" and TC-309 "Machine Learning and Big Data" of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Last updated: January 2026