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Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian mechanician, structural and materials scientist, mechanical engineer and physicist, [1] [2] holding PhDs in fracture mechanics and biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento, founder of the Mechano-X Labs [3] (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin, founder of the Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics "Giuseppe Maria Pugno" [4] [5] ) and part-time professor of materials science at Queen Mary University of London. [6] He is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford. [7]
He has been appointed to several committees, including the technical and scientific committee [8] of the Italian Space Agency, and has served as a plenary speaker at various international workshops, events and conferences, including Falling Walls, [9] the World Economic Forum [10] [11] and the European Parliament, [12] invited by the European Research Council (ERC), as well as the opening plenary speaker at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2020+1). [13] He is an editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of Frontiers in Materials. [14]
Pugno has published around 700 papers in international journals. [15] For his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion (e.g., proposals for high-strength (hierarchical) bio-inspired materials, high-toughness (knotted) fibers, high-strength nanotube/graphene cables (and composites), "bionicomposites" such as spider silk spun by spiders fed with nanomaterials, bio-inspired (hierarchical) metamaterials, tunable friction surfaces, superadhesive or antiadhesive (e.g. anti-ice) surfaces, nanoelectromechanical systems modelling, quantized/finite fracture mechanics, multiple peeling theories, etc.), he has received several awards. These include the first edition of the GiovedìScienza prize in 2012 (for both research and science popularization [16] ), the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize [17] in 2017 and the Humboldt Research Award [18] in 2022. Since 2011, he has been awarded several grants from the European Union, mainly within the Excellent Science pillars — including 5 ERC grants [19] — for both fundamental science [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] and high-tech transfer, [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] which he is developing for various high-tech industries.
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