ICARO Award - 2010

Giuliano Augusti

Education

University of Naples
University of Palermo
University of Cagliari
University of Florence (Chairman of Civil Engineering Department)
University of Florence (Dean of Engineering School)
University of Sapienza-Roma
Brown University, USA (Post-Doctoral Teaching and Research Fellow)
National Somali University, Mogadishu
CRIACIV: Interuniversity Research Center on Building Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering
- 1991 - Founder and Director. Partners: Universities of Roma. ”La Sapienza” and Firenze
- 1998 - Honorary President. Partners: Universities of Roma. ”La Sapienza”, Firenze, Perugia, Trieste, Venezia and Chieti-Pescara

Responsible of many research projects financed by the italian Ministry of Research
Representative of the Univ. “Roma-La Sapienza” in many Research Projects of National Interest related to building aerodynamics and wind engineering
Scientific Coordinator of the European Network Program BEATRICE (Building and Environmental Aerodynamics: Training, Research and Interchange of Expertise)
Scientific Coordinator of the BEATRICE Euroconferences (1994-1996)
One of the two Italian representatives in the European Project COST titled “Impact of wind and storms on the built environment”(2000-2004)

ANIV: Italian National Asssociation of Wind Engineering (President 1987-1999)
ANIDIS: Italian National Association for Earthquake Engineering (Board of Directors)
AIMETA: Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
EASD: European Association for Structural Mechanics
CERRA: Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association
IASSAR: Int. Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (President 2001-2005)
IFIP: International Association for Information Processing
Italian representative in Sub-Committee 1 (Basis of Design and Actions in Structures) in charge of preparing the European Technical Building Regulations (EUROCODES)
Chair of the similar Italian Sub-Committee within the Structural Engineering Commission
Member of the Project Team for the conversion into final European “Structural Eurocodes”of the Preliminary Standards ENV 1991-1 “Basis of Design” and ENV 1991-2-7 “Actions of Structures: Accidental Actions”

Section coordinator in the Committee for International Relationship of the Italian Ministry of University and Research
Coordinator of the EU Working Group for Interaction between European Recognition of Diplomas for Academic and Professional Purposes
Italian Academic Representative on the ERASMUS Advisory Committee
Member of the Commissione per la Cooperazione Universitaria Internazionale
Member of the Italian Ministerial Committee for revision of engineering curricula
President of SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education)
Chair of Working Groups within the EU programme SOCRATES
Founder of ENAEE: European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education

1996 - Fellow of the European Association for Enginering Education
1997 - Doctor Honoris Causa by the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
1999 - Doctor in Science (highest degree) by the University of Cambridge
2000 - Member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Structural Sciences
2004 - Leonardo da Vinci Medal of SEFI (2004) awarded to “living persons who have made an outstanding contribution of international significance to engineering education”