Sergio Baragetti is a mechanical engineer and has served as a full professor of Machine Design since 2012 at Università degli Studi di Bergamo. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994, earning a Master's in Machine Design from Politecnico di Milano. He obtained a PhD in Quality Engineering from the University of Florence in 1998. He is an expert in the design of mechanical components with a high strength-to-mass ratio. His research activities concern the theoretical, numerical and experimental study of the effects induced by surface treatments on the fatigue behaviour of mechanical components, the study of fatigue and corrosion mechanisms in aqueous environments and the study of the effects of hard thin surface coatings on fatigue, contact fatigue and corrosion–fatigue behaviour. He has more than 30 years of experience in the analysis of components and structures using theoretical, numerical and experimental procedures. He is the head of the Laboratory of Structural Mechanics at UNIBG and the Laboratory of Sustainable Mobility and Structural Mechanics at KilometroRosso, UNIBG. He is the author of 50 patents and about 420 publications in international and Italian journals, books, international and national conference proceedings and patents. Since 2023, he has been in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" Stanford University report, with the support of Scopus and Elsevier. Since 2024, he has been in the “Top 0.5% Scholars" report by ScholarGPS.