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Nicola Pugno

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Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian scientist,[1][2] mechanical engineer, astrophysicist, with phds in fracture mechanics and biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento[3] (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin[4][5]) and of materials science at the Queen Mary University of London[6] (part-time; and visiting professor at the University of Oxford[7]).

He has been selected as member of several committees such as the technical and scientific committee[8] of the Italian Space Agency and as plenary speaker in several international workshops, events and conferences, such as at Falling Walls,[9] at the World Economic Forum[10][11] and at the European Parliament[12] invited by the European Research Council as well as -as opening plenary speaker- at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.[13] He is editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of Frontiers in Materials.[14]

He has published about 500 papers in international journals[15] and, for his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion, he received -among other prizes (such as the first edition in 2012 of the GiovedìScienza prize for both science research and popularization[16])- in 2017 the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize[17] and in 2022 the Humboldt Prize.[18] Since 2011, he has received several grants also from the European Union within the Excellent Science pillars for both fundamental science[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and high-tech transfer,[26][27][28][29][30] that he is developing for several high-tech industries.

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  1. ^ "Nicola Pugno - Top Italian Scientist in Engineering". topitalianscientists.org.
  2. ^ "Nicola Pugno - ADScientficIndex".
  3. ^ "Nicola Pugno - Solid and Structural Mechanics Group - University of Trento". pugno.dicam.unitn.it.
  4. ^ "DISEG - Laboratorio Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics". DISEG.
  5. ^ "MUSEO VIRTUALE - Gli ingegneri - Giuseppe Maria Pugno". areeweb.polito.it.
  6. ^ "Prof Nicola Pugno". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  7. ^ "Home". staff.admin.ox.ac.uk.
  8. ^ "Samantha Cristoforetti chiama il Muse". Trentino Cultura.
  9. ^ "Nicola Pugno | Falling Walls". falling-walls.com.
  10. ^ "Annual meeting of the new champions".
  11. ^ "World Economic Forum".
  12. ^ "ERA Portal Austria – ERC celebrates 5,000th top researcher funded". era.gv.at.
  13. ^ "Plenary Lecturers | ICTAM 2020". www.ictam2020.org.
  14. ^ "Frontiers in Materials | Editorial board". www.frontiersin.org.
  15. ^ "Nicola M. Pugno". scholar.google.it.
  16. ^ "GiovedìScienza: la scienza in diretta settimana per settimana - torinoscienza.it". archivio.torinoscienza.it.
  17. ^ "Professor Nicola Pugno wins the IOM3's Griffith Medal & Prize". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  18. ^ Tomassetti, Giuseppe (November 23, 2022). "Humboldt Research Award 2022 a Nicola Pugno".
  19. ^ "CORDIS | European Commission".
  20. ^ FET Boheme
  21. ^ FET Neurofibres
  22. ^ "Ramp Up Phase Highlights from the Graphene Flagship". Graphene Flagship.
  23. ^ FET Graphene Flagship Core 1
  24. ^ FET Graphene Flagship Core 2
  25. ^ FET Graphene Flagship Core 3
  26. ^ "CORDIS | European Commission".
  27. ^ "CORDIS | European Commission".
  28. ^ ERC Knotough
  29. ^ FET Silence
  30. ^ "CORDIS | European Commission".
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