Dr. Rossana Dimitri

Rossana Dimitri is an Associate Professor at the University of Salento, Italy. She received an M.Sc. degree in Materials Engineering in 2004, a Ph.D. degree in Materials and Structural Engineering in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering in 2013. In 2005, she received the “Best M.Sc. Thesis Prize 2003–2004” from the University of Salento, in memory of Eng. Gabriele De Angelis; in 2013, she was awarded for the Italian selection of the 2013 ECCOMAS Ph.D. Award. Her interests include structural mechanics, solid mechanics, damage and fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, isogeometric analysis, high-performance finite elements, consulting in applied technologies, and technology transfer. From 2010 to 2011, she received a research fellowship from the ENEA Research Centre of Brindisi (UTTMATB-COMP) for the development and characterization of some thermoplastic composites for thermal solar panels and adhesively bonded turbine blades under severe environmental conditions. From 2011 to 2012, she was a visiting scientist at the Leibniz Universität Hannover to study From problems with isogeometric approaches. From 2013 to 2016, she was a researcher at the University of Salento, within the ERC starting research grant “INTERFACES” on “Computational mechanical modelling of structural interfaces based on isogeometric approaches”. She collaborates as a reviewer with different prestigious international journals in the field of structural mechanics.