F. Baldi is Associate Professor in Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of University of Brescia (Brescia, Italy). His research activity is mainly experimental, and concerns: Mechanics of polymeric materials; Rheology of polymeric materials; Polymer processing. He is member of the Technical Committee 4 “Polymers, Polymer Composites and Adhesives” of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). Within ESIS TC4, he is coordinator of a specific work area (“Jc testing”). He is member of the working group "Fracture and fatigue behaviour", WG7, of the subcommittee "Mechanical behaviour", SC2, of the technical committee "Plastics", TC61, of ISO. He is associate of the Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing of the National Research Council of Italy.