Dr. Giuseppe Pitarresi

Giuseppe Pitarresi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 at the University of Palermo (IT). He spent part of his doctorate as a Visiting Ph.D. student in the Experimental Stress Group of the University of Sheffield (UK), where he also served as a post-doc research associate for the Advanced Railway Research Centre, up until 2004. In 2005, he received a permanent lecturer position at the University of Palermo, and since 2015 he has been Associate Professor at the same institution. His main research interests regard the development and application of experimental stress analysis techniques for materials characterization. His main expertise lies in the fracture toughness characterization of polymers and polymer matrix composites, and in the implementation of full-field non-contact Digital Image Correlation, Photoelastic, and Thermoelastic stress analysis techniques.