Fabio Giudice is associate professor of Metallurgy at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Catania. Former assistant professor of Metallurgy at the same institution, he has been associate researcher in Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, and Metallurgy at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Catania, and previously in Mechanical Design and Construction of Machines at the Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering of the same University. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Catania, obtained a master's in Design and Bionics at the Research Centre of the European Institute of Design in Milano, and a PhD in Structural Mechanics at the University of Catania. His research interests include the mechanical behaviour and microstructural characterization of metallic materials, optimal materials selection, metallurgy of processes based on mobile thermal sources (laser welding, metal additive manufacturing by electron beam melting), life cycle design and design for X, and product design for the environment.