Professor Liberato Ferrara
IAS Open Programme
Politecnico di Milano
Liberato Ferrara, PhD, is Professor of Structural Analysis and Design at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). He was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials, Northwestern University (USA) and visiting professor at Beijing Jiaotong University (PRC).
He was chair of H2020 project ReSHEALience, “Rethinking coastal defence and Green-energy Service infrastructures through enHancEd-durAbiLity high-performance cement-based materials”. He led PoliMi’s research group in two EU-FP7 projects (SMARTINCS and MINRESCUE) and coordinated bilateral scientific cooperation projects Italy/South Korea, Italy/India, Italy/Israel and Italy/Germany. He was chair of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) TC 544-Fiber Reinforced Concrete and was Italian representative in the COST Action 15020 SARCOS- Self healing as preventive repair in concrete structures.
His research interests span from material concepts to structural applications of advanced cementitious composites, self-healing concrete, 3D printing with cementitious materials, and the sustainability of cement-based materials and structures. He has co-authored more than 100 papers on these topics.
During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Ferrara is collaborating with Dr Ana Blanco Alvarez from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering.