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 as well as 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] (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 more than 550 publications in international journals [15] and, for his pioneering 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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  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.
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  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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