Engineer, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Universities of Pisa and Florence) and in Sciences des Métiers de l’Ingénieur (Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Aix-en-Provence), Valeria Croce currently works as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Pisa on the topic of drawing representation and architectural design, with specific focus on 3D surveying, digital information modeling systems for Cultural Heritage objects, semantic annotations, Artificial Intelligence and H-BIM. The research addresses the issues of interpreting survey data using more automatic tools based on Artificial Intelligence for the supervised recognition of architectural components and deteriorating conditions, as well as for the characterization of visual and geometric aspects of architectural surfaces; the use of H-BIM platforms and the management of Scan-to-BIM processes; the semantic structuring of architectural representations through web-based and collaborative applications; the application of survey tools for pre- and post-disaster investigations, with reference to territories at high seismic risk. She is currently tenure of co-teaching activities of the Laboratory of Representation of for the CdL in Engineering for Industrial Design, School of Engineering University of Pisa and of Architectural Design for the CdLM in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Pisa.
Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Aix-en-Provence
First prix for Ph.D. thesis ‘Restoration in the era of H-BIM’. Category B – Rotary club Roma
Rotary Club of Rome, University of Rome, Fondazione Almagià
Award for Ph.D. thesis ‘Restoration in the era of H-BIM’, Category B – Ph.D. and postgraduate theses. Award granted by the Rotary Club of Rome with the sponsorship of the Faculties of Architecture and Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome and the collaboration of the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage Fondazione Almagià - ACER.
First prix for Ph.D. thesis ‘BIM&DIGITAL Awards 2021’, Category 8 – Research
BIM&DIGITAL Awards 2021, CLUST-ER BUILD and DIGITAL&BIM
First prize awarded to doctoral thesis on ‘Artificial Intelligence at the Service of Restoration BIM Sites’. BIM&DIGITAL Awards 2021, organized by CLUST-ER BUILD and DIGITAL&BIM. Results available at: concorsiarchibo.eu/digitalandbimawards-2021/home
VINCI2019 award for Ph.D. thesis in co-tutelle, Université Franco-Italienne
Université Franco-Italienne
Scholarship funded by the Italian-French University, for Chapter II - Mobility Grants for Ph.D. thesis in co-tutelle. Université Franco-Italienne, University of Turin. Internationalization Area, Institutional Activities, Programming, Quality and Evaluation Directorate.
Honorable mention for sustainability 2016 MNPG ARCH Competition Australia
Level solutions Australia
MNPG Arch Competition, level solutions Australia. Honorable mention for sustainability in an international competition regarding the construction of a technological and sustainable lighthouse on the Sapphire Coast, Australia
Post Doctoral Researcher
Post-doctoral researcher on ‘Integrated from-SCAN-to-BIM methodologies applied to historical heritage. The case study of the city walls of Pisa’ University of Pisa, Department of Energy Engineering, Systems, Land and Construction.
01 Sep 2022 - present
University Educator/Researcher
Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) - Laboratory of Representation - Engineering for Industrial Design UNIPI (20 hrs.)
01 Sep 2022 - present
University Educator/Researcher
Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) - Architectural Desing I, CAD laboratoy - Building Engineering and Architecture
01 Sep 2022 - present
University Educator/Researcher
Subject Tutor (Cultore della Materia) in Design and CAD laboratory - Civil, Environmental and Building Engineering UNIPI
01 Sep 2022 - present
University Educator/Researcher
Subject Tutor (Cultore della Materia) in Architectural Design II and Surveying methods - Civil Engineering and Architecture UNIPI
01 Sep 2022 - present
Post Doctoral Researcher
Visiting post-doctoral research fellow at ENSAM Aix-en-Provence and UMR MAP CNRS Marseille
01 Jan 2023 - 01 Feb 2023
Research or Laboratory Scientist
Research grant ‘Geometric and semantic modeling: development of Machine Learning procedures for processing data relevant to analysis, management and monitoring’ University of Pisa, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
01 Mar 2022 - 01 Aug 2022
Ph.D.
Ph.D., joint title (co-tutelle agreement): International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Curriculum: Construction design, verification and control, XXXIV ciclo. Università degli Studi di Firenze e Università di Pisa Sciences des Métier
01 Nov 2018 - 01 Jun 2022