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Curriculum Docente

ID ORCID: 0000-0002-6344-8051

ID Scopus: 57201025246

Academic positions

  • (03/2023 – present) Post-Doc Associate Researcher at the University of Salerno – Department of Industrial Engineering, Fisciano (Italy). The research activities are related to the scientific field of Machine Design (ING-IND/14). Tutor: prof. Raffaele Sepe.
  • (02/2021 – 02/2023) Post-Doc Associate Researcher at the University of Padua – Department of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei”, Via F. Marzolo 8, 35131, Padua (Italy). The research activities are related to the scientific field of Applied Physics (FIS/07) funded by the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei” under the budget of the agreement signed with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) – Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Richard Birkelands vei 2B, 7491, Trondheim (Norway). Tutors: prof. Marco Baiesi and prof. Chiara Bertolin.

Work Experience

  • (09/2023 – present) Occasional self-employed role for supporting the teaching activities of the course “Costruzione di Macchine”, Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno. Project title: “Help Teaching”, a.y. 2023/2024.

  • (07/2023 – 08/2023) Occasional self-employed role for teaching activities belonging to the project “Piano formativo Innovazione Digitale e Sostenibilità 2023” of Leonardo Skills and Training (Leonardo s.p.a.).

  • (03/2023 – 09/2023) Occasional self-employed role for supporting the teaching activities of the course “Costruzione di Macchine”, Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno. Project title: “Help Teaching”, a.y. 2022/2023.

  • (10/2021) Occasional self-employed role for research support activities of IeSAC s.r.l. entitled: “Attività per lo studio delle proprietà meccaniche di un componente in via di definizione, finalizzato all’utilizzo per attività di ricerca e sviluppo industriale”.

  • (05/2018 – 06/2018) Lecturer of Material Science and Advanced Materials for visiting high-school students in the framework of Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro at University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”

Qualifications

  • (02/2019) Government exam: Professional Engineer License – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Final mark: 186/200.

Certifications

  • (03/2019) Certificate of Prevention and Safety at Work (Prevenzione e Sicurezza sul Lavoro) – University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. The Certificate is comparable to the Module A of the Manager/Clerk of the Prevention and Protection course, in accordance with the Legislative Decree 81/08, the Legislative Decree 195/03 and the ‘Agreement 14/02/2006’.
  • (06/2018) Introductory Certificate in Project Management. It is based on the knowledge of the 20 Elements of Technical Competences described into the IPMA ICB3.0® Individual Competence Baseline. The MiniMaster was organised by the Associazione Nazionale di Impiantistica Industriale (ANIMP) and by International Project Management Association (IPMA Italy).

Education

  • (01/2021) Doctoral degree in Industrial and Information Engineering (Scientific Field: ING-IND/22 – Materials Science and Technology) with mention of Doctor Europaeus – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.
  • (07/2017) Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, 110/110 cum laude – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitellli”.
  • (12/2014) Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering, 110/110 cum laude – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.

National and International research activities

  • (02/2024) Lecturer at the University of West Bohemia for the Doctoral Course of Mechanical Engineering – Plzen (Czech Republic).
  • (12/2023) Lecturer at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome for the Doctoral Course in Electrical, Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering – Rome (Italy)
  • (06/2022) Lecturer at the “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change” (CHePiCC) Summer School organized by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the framework of the Erasmus+ project – Trondheim (Norway)
  • (06/2022) Lecturer at the “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change” (CHePiCC) Multiplier Event organized by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the framework of the Erasmus+ project – Trondheim (Norway)
  • (09/2021) Research activities at the University of Rijeka - Faculty of Maritime Studies (Rijeka, Croatia), the Centre for Materials Research METRIS, and the Centre for Marine Technologies carried out in collaboration with prof. Goran Vukelic (University of Rijeka) and focused on the microscopic examination of materials, and on the performance of composite materials in marine environment.
  • (09/2021) Delivery of a plenary lecture entitled “Durability of composite structures and organic hygroscopic objects: strategies for the health monitoring in different fields” at the University of Rijeka (Rijeka, Croatia) during the 2nd My First Conference (MFC).
  • (02/2020) Delivery of a seminar entitled “Damage diagnosis procedure for composite structures using artificial neural networks” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Imperial College London (London, UK).
  • (02/2020) Delivery of a presentation entitled “Strain-based neural-network algorithm for the Structural Health Monitoring of composite structures” in the cycle of the Theme Leaders’ Meetings of the Aerospace Research Institute of the University of Manchester (Manchester, UK).
  • (09/2019 – 03/2020) Visiting Researcher at the University of Manchester – Aerospace Research Institute, Supervisor: prof. Constantinos Soutis – Manchester (UK).

Networks and Memberships

  • (06/2023 – present) Member of the Società Scientifica Italiana di Progettazione Meccanica e Costruzione di Macchine (AIAS)
  • (02/2023 - Present) Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF). Link: https://www.gruppofrattura.eu/about-us/exco
  • (02/2023 - Present) Member of the Scientific Committee of the “7th International Workshop for Autonomous Remanufacturing” (IWAR23) – Caserta (Italy). Link: https://www.iwarconference.org/organizing-and-scientific-committees/
  • (06/2022) Member of the Organizing Committee of the “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change” Summer School (CHePiCC) organized by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the framework of the Erasmus+ project – Trondheim (Norway)
  • (02/2022 – present) Member of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)
  • (09/2019) Member of the Organizing Committee of the 7th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials (ICSAAM). September 2019 – Ischia (Italy)
  • (06/2018) Member of the Organizing Committee of the 9th International Conference “Times of Polymers and Composites” (TOP) – Ischia (Italy)
  • (11/2017 – 10/2020) Member of the Research Group “Materials Science and Engineering” of the Department of Engineering of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy).

Tutorship

  • (03/2023 – present) Co-supervisor of Bachelor and Master students’ dissertations on topics in the field of Machine Design – Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy).

  • (01/2018 – 10/2020) Co-supervisor of Bachelor students’ dissertations (10) on topics in the field of Materials Science and Technology – Department of Engineering of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy).

Awards and Associations

  • (01/2023 – present) Expert in the field for the following subjects: Machine Design – Mechanical Engineering; Fundamentals of Machine Design – Chemical Engineering and Management Engineering. University of Salerno (Italy).
  • (04/2019) Winner of an Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant for attending a visiting research period abroad.
  • (05/2019) Winner of a Grant from the European Society for Composite Materials for attending the Second International Summer School on Fatigue and Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials organized by the Department of Management and Engineering at the University of Padua (Italy), based on CV and research experience.

Research projects

  • (2021 – 2023) Participation to International Research Project “Save and Protect” funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, involving the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) and the University of Padua (Italy).
  • (2018 – 2020) Participation to CleanSky2 program CUP: E52C14000080009, technical specification 99/SW/0000/N334/180008: “Software implementation for the testing of structural integrity by means of neural networks”, involving Leonardo SpA and the Department of Engineering of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.

Editorial activities

Publications

Articles

  • Califano A., Zanola A., Di Terlizzi I., Baiesi M., Bertolin C. (2023), Preliminary evaluation of the climate-induced fatigue in wood: A physical and computational approach, Forces in Mechanics, Vol. 11, 100186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finmec.2023.100186.

  • Califano A., Baiesi M., Bertolin C. (2022), Novel risk assessment tools for the climate-induced mechanical decay of wooden structures: Empirical and machine learning approaches, Forces in Mechanics, Vol. 7, No. 100094, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finmec.2022.100094.

  • Califano A., Baiesi M., Bertolin C. (2022), Analysing the Main Standards for Climate-Induced Mechanical Risk in Heritage Wooden Structures: The Case of the Ringebu and Heddal Stave Churches (Norway). Atmosphere, Vol. 13, No. 791, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13050791.

  • Manara N., Rosset L., Zambelli F., Zanola A., Califano A. (2022), Natural climate reconstruction in the Norwegian Stave Churches through time series processing with variational autoencoders, International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-01-2022-0017.

  • Miglioranza P., Scanu A., Simionato G., Sinigaglia N., Califano, A. (2022), Machine learning and engineering feature approaches to detect events perturbing the indoor microclimate in Ringebu and Heddal stave churches (Norway), International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-01-2022-0018.

  • D’Amore, A. Califano, L. Grassia. (2021), Modelling the loading rate effects on the fatigue response of composite materials under constant and variable amplitude loadings, International Journal of Fatigue, 150, 106338, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2021.106338.

  • Califano, N. Chandarana, L. Grassia, A. D’Amore, C. Soutis. (2020), Damage detection in composites by artificial neural networks trained by using in situ distributed strains, Applied Composite Materials, 27 (5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-020-09829-z.

Conference Proceedings

  • Califano A., Bollino F., Berto F., Sepe R. (2023), Fatigue crack growth behaviour of wrought and additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel specimens, Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 53, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2024.01.023

  • Califano A., Bollino F., Berto F., Sepe R. (2023), Experimental investigation of the fatigue crack growth behaviour in SLM additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel specimens, Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2023.07.154

  • Giannella V., Califano A., Bacco A., F. Berto, R. Sepe (2023), FEM simulation of the welding process of a butt-welded joint and comparison with experimental data, Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 47, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2023.07.029

  • D’Amore, R. Dell’Aversano, A. Califano. (2019), Preliminary approach to the study of flexural fatigue behaviour of low Tg carbon/epoxy laminates, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2196, 020042, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5140315

  • Califano, A. D’Amore. (2019), Analysis of a phenomenological model for fatigue of composite materials, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2196, 020044, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5140317

  • Califano, R. Dell’Aversano. (2018), Theoretical approach to the study of fatigue of composites under spectrum loading, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1981, 020143, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5046005

  • Grassia, M. Iannone, A. Califano, A. D’Amore. (2018), Self-learning health monitoring algorithm in composite structures, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1932, 030011, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024161

Chapters

  • Califano A., Foti P., Baiesi M., Berto F., Bertolin C. (2022), A new risk assessment tool which assesses the climate-induced mechanical stress and its strain energy density on Pine circular elements: preliminary investigation in view of the experimental and numerical modeling validation, Chapter 9 in Michael Kaliske, Daniel Konopka, Oliver Tietze, Christoph Herm (Editors), VIRTEX - Virtual Experiments for Wooden Artwork. Institute for Structural Analysis Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. ISBN 978-3-86780-694-7

Books

  • Bertolin C., Califano A., Schwai M. (2022), ChePiCC Summer School: Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change, ESIS Publishing House, ISBN 978-88-31482-51-6

Digital Skills

Software

Anaconda, Python programming language, Matlab programming language, ANSYS APDL, Abaqus CAE, KERAS machine learning package, Neural Network Toolbox

General

Microsoft Office, Cloud Platforms, Internet Browsers, Windows Operating Systems, Social Media

Language Skills

Mother tongue(s): Italian

Other language(s): English (C1)

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America Califano