Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Gian Michele Calvi
Citation names
- Calvi, Gian Michele
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0F19-702F-7AD0
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0998-8882
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Civil Engineering
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Italian (Mother tongue) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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1987
Concluded
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Doctorate in Structural Engineering (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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1985
Concluded
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Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Master)
University of California Berkeley Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United States
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1981
Concluded
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Degree in Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2003 - Current | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Eucentre, Italy |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2013 - Current | Invited Full Professor (University Teacher) | North Carolina State University College of Engineering, United States |
2010 - Current | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy |
2000 - 2010 | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
1992 - 1999 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
1987 - 1992 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018 - 2022 | Dipartimenti di Eccellenza - Revision of Seismic Action and Design
Dipartimenti di Eccellenza
Principal investigator
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
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2019 - 2021 | ReLUIS - Network of Seismic Engineering University Laboratories Work Package 5 - Assessment of integrated seismic retrofitting
schemes
ReLUIS
Supervisor
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
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2017 - 2020 | SERA - Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Alliance for Europe
730900
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2017 - 2020 | INFRA-NAT - Increased Resilience of Critical Infrastructure to Natural and Human-Induced Hazards
783298
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2015 - 2016 | SASPARM 2.0 - Support Action for Strengthening PAlestine capabilities for Seismic Risk Mitigation
DG ECHO 2014
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Concluded
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2013 - 2016 | STREST - Harmonized approach to stress tests for critical infrastructures against natural hazards
603389
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Concluded
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2014 - 2015 | STEEL-EARTH - Steel-based applications in earthquake prone areas
RFS2-CT-2014-00022
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Concluded
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2014 - 2015 | ECOSTRESS - Ecological coastal strategies and tools for resilient European Societies
ECHO-SUB-2013-671461
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2013 - 2015 | DIONISO - Seismic domotics innovative technologies for home and system
SCN_00320
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2012 - 2015 | STRIT - Tools and technologies for the management of the risk of transport infrastructures
PON01_02366
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2012 - 2015 | PRISMA - Smart cloud platforms and interoperable for the e-government of the security in areas of high seismic risk
PON04_a2_A
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2005 - 2015 | MEEES Masters in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology
131365
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Concluded
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2010 - 2014 | REAKT - Strategies and Tools for Real Time Earthquake Risk Reduction
282862
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2010 - 2014 | NERA - Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation
262330
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2010 - 2014 | DiSTEEL - Development of Rapid Highly-specialized Operative Units for Structural Evaluation
RFSR-CT-2010-00029
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2009 - 2013 | SERIES—Seismic Engineering Research Infrastructure for European Synergies
227887
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2010 - 2012 | DRHOUSE - Development of Rapid Highly-specialized Operative Units for Structural Evaluation
070405/2010/565717
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2008 - 2012 | E-FAST:-Design Study of a European Facility for Advanced Seismic Testing
212109
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2007 - 2010 | STEP - Strategies and Tools for Post-earthquake assessment
070402/2007/460822/SUB/A3
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2006 - 2009 | AIRPLANE-Advancing Interdisciplinary Research Platform on Volcanoes and Earthquakes
FIRB-PIATTAFORME-RETI-2006
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Edited book |
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Journal article |
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Report |
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Intellectual property
Patent |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2004 - 2017 | Advisor of thirty-four M. Sc. Students
Supervisor
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Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
2004 - 2017 | Advisor of twenty-one Ph. D. Students
Supervisor
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Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
2004 - 2017 | Advisor of twenty-one Post-Doctoral Fellows
Supervisor
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Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
1987 - 2010 | Advisor of forty-six M. Sc. Students
Supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
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1998 - 2002 | Advisor of four Ph. D. Students
Supervisor
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Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2000 - 2017 | Organizer of the International ROSE School Seminars (yearly), Pavia, 200 participants (2000) | |
2007 - 2007 | Org. and Editor, US-Italy Workshop on Seismic Design of Bridges, Pavia, 60 p. (by invitation) (2007 - 2007) | |
1998 - 1998 | Org. and Ed., US-Italy Workshop on Bridge Protection Systems, New York, 60 p. (by invitation) (1998 - 1998) | |
1995 - 1997 | Org. and Ed., Japan-Italy Workshops on Seismic design and retrofit of bridges, Tsukuba and Pavia, 60 p., (by invitation) (1995 - 1997) | |
1994 - 1996 | Org. and Ed., US-Italy Workshops on Seismic evaluation and retrofit of building structures, Pavia and New York, 40 p. (by invitation) (1994 - 1996) | |
1991 - 1994 | Org. and Ed., International Workshops on Seismic design and retrofitting of reinforced concrete bridges, Bormio, Italy, and Queenstown, New Zealand, 40 p. (by invitation) (1991 - 1994) |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2014 - Current | Member of SPONSE - International Association for the Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Elements | |
2012 - Current | Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - 2015 | Component of the Scientific Committee of the Milan EXPÒ 2015 | |
2008 - 2013 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, Pavia | |
2008 - 2010 | Component of the National Commission for Prevention, Mitigation and Management of Great Risks (Commissione Grandi Rischi), Roma, Italy | |
2006 - 2010 | Member of the Scientific Board of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy | |
2004 - 2008 | Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Roma, Italy | |
2002 - 2008 | Chairman of the Seismic Risk Section of the National Commission for Prevention, Mitigation and Management of Great Risks (Commissione Grandi Rischi), Roma, Italy | |
2003 - 2004 | Chairman of the Committee created to re-write the Italian Seismic Design Code, Roma, Italy | |
1998 - 2004 | Member of several Project Teams related to Eurocode 8 (structure in seismic regions) |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - 2018 | G.M. Calvi is leading and coordinating a complex interdisciplinary effort to construct 103 new school buildings in Costa Rica for the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica and for the Banco Inter Americano de Desarrollo. This project requires an integrations between lawyers, business administration experts, engineers, architects, geologists, expert in education. | |
2015 - 2017 | Due to seismic actions induced by gas extraction, great concerns rose up about the risk in a wide area, which includes some 200,000 buildings. Among them, 226 historical churches constitute a particularly relevant and difficult case. G.M. Calvi and his team developed a WEBGIS interactive system able to assess each church at different levels of complexity, including non linear push over analysis integrated by local kinematic processes. | |
2010 - 2010 | Steel Bridge “La Becca” over the Po river. In November 2010 some concern raises about the stability of a steel truss bridge about 1040 m long, constructed at the beginning of the XX century and partially demolished during the Second World War. G.M. Calvi and his team assessed an ongoing rotation of one of the pier foundation and managed to design and build two side piers with deep foundation and to perform all the inherent strengthening measure to the bridge in about two months. In March, 2011, the pier completely collapse during a flood and the str | |
2009 - 2009 | the CASE project. G. M. Calvi has been the designer and project manager of the CASE project for the reconstruction work after the earthquake that struck L’Aquila in April 2009. This work implied the construction of 185 base isolated new buildings in about six months, providing dwellings for about 15,000 homeless people in the region of L’Aquila. This endeavor is considered a major engineering success all over the world. | |
1999 - 2004 | The North Anatolian Viaduct. The 1999 Duzce earthquake severely damaged the North Anatolian Viaduct, completed but not opened at the time. The ingenuity of the structural solution to repair and strengthen the viaduct, envisaged by G. M. Calvi, allowed to close the case opened with the Lloyds of London, the insurer, who accepted to bear all costs, since they were lower than what expected for repair only. | |
1998 - 2004 | Rion – Antirion cable stayed bridge. The 3 km long Rion Antirion Bridge with 250m tall piers and major spans of 560m is a recognized world masterpiece. G. M. Calvi played a major role in the Checker Team and received world recognition for the contribution to the design and construction of the Rion–Antirion Bridge (fib Award for Outstanding Concrete Structure, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2000 - Current | Reviewer of applications to assistant professor or for promotion to associate or full professorship in the following universities: UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UT Austin, NCSU Raleigh, Georgia Tech Atlanta, Cincinnati (all USA), IC London (UK), Toronto (Canada), Adelaide (Australia), EPFL Lausanne and ETH Zurich (Switzerland) | ||
2000 - Current | Reviewer of research proposals for: National Science Foundation, Washington, USA, UK Research Council, London, UK, Austrian Science Fund, Vienna, Austria, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland, Comisiòn Nacional de Investigaciòn Cientìfica y Tecnològica of Chile, Santiago, Chile | ||
2016 - 2017 | Chairman of the commission for the evaluation of the Serra-Hunter professor candidates at the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) | ||
2013 - 2015 | Chairman of the commission for the evaluation for promotion of all professors of structural engineering in Italian universities | ||
2005 - 2013 | Member of the evaluation panel for the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), Universities of Coimbra and Minho, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2008 - Current | Progettazione Sismica (2532-1560) | |
1999 - Current | Journal of Earthquake Engineering (1363-2469) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
Distinctions
Award
2017 | Distinguished Lecture Award
University of Texas at Austin Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, United States
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2014 | ROSE School Prize, Pavia, Italy
Eucentre, Italy
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2012 | Shaw Lecture Award,
North Carolina State University, United States
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2009 | Honorary Doctorate
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
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2009 | Prize La Lombardia per il lavoro, Milano, Italy |
2006 | fib Award for Outstanding Concrete Structure for the contribution to the design and construction of the Rion–Antirion Bridge, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Other distinction
2017 | Keynote lecture - Seismic assessment and rational renovation of the structural heritage, IABSE Symposium Engineering the Future, Vancouver 2017 |
2017 | Keynote lecture - Performing full scale in situ dynamic testing, 7th International Conference on Advancement in Structural Testing, Pavia 2017 |
2017 | Keynote lecture - Experiences and trends in seismic design of bridges, 2nd International Bridge Seismic Workshop, Shanghai, 2017 |
2015 | Inaugural lecture (Prolusione) for the academic year 2015-2016 at the IUSS Pavia, Italy
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
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2015 | Keynote lecture - Concepts and technologies for friction-based isolation, VII National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Bogotà 2015 |
2014 | Keynote lecture - Energy efficiency and disaster resilience: a common approach, Int. Conf. on Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering (ICMAE), Chicago 2014 |
2014 | Keynote lecture - A seismic performance classification framework to provide increased seismic resilience, 2nd European Conf. on Earthquake Eng. and Seismology, Istanbul 2014 |
2012 | Keynote lecture - Alternative choices and criteria for seismic strengthening, 15th World Conf. on Earthquake Eng., Lisbon, 2012 |
2010 | Keynote lecture - Engineers understanding of earthquakes demand and structures response, 14th European Conf. on Earthquake Eng., Ohrid, 2010 |
2009 | Inaugural lecture (Prolusione) for the academic year 2009-2010 at the Università di Pavia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
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2008 | Keynote lecture - Innovative approaches to advanced education and multidisciplinary research, 3rd Int. Symposium on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environments (ISWE3), Tokyo, 2008 |
2007 | Vote of Thanks, for promotion to professorship of Julian Bommer, Imperial College, London |
2004 | Keynote lecture - Recent experience and innovative approaches in design and assessment of bridges, 13th World Conf. on Earthquake Eng., Vancouver, 2004 |
1998 | Keynote lecture - Performance-based approaches for seismic assessment of existing structures, 11th European Conf. on Earthquake Eng., Paris, 1998 |