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Enrico CONTE - Professori Ordinari

Enrico CONTE

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Geotecnica (CEAR-05/A)

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On Wednesday: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, in the office of Prof. Conte, at the last floor of Cubo 44/b..

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He carried out a long and intense teaching activity in the context of the degree programs in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, at the University of Calabria. Member of the academic board of the PhD Course in Civil and Industrial Engineering (DICI), at University of Calabria. For the same PhD Course, he served as the coordinator in the period 2020-2023. His research activity is characterized by temporal continuity, a broad spectrum of topics and a qualified editorial collocation. The research results were published in numerous conference proceedings and in prestigious international journals in the field of Geotechnics. Some papers also received significant awards. He also took part in research projects (PRIN, PON, POR, RELUIS) and scientific studies commissioned by important public institutions, often with a role of scientific responsibility. He was a member of the editorial board and guest editor of journals inserted in the Scopus or WoS database, reviewer for a great number of international journals, ANVUR reviewer for the VQR 2011-14 and member of national and international technical committees. He was one of the founding partners of the academic spin-off called SIRiA (Integrated Services and Research for Environment). Management and service activities include, among others, participation in numerous selection boards, student support activities, management activities, support to emergency due to natural events, and representation roles.
Enrico Conte is full professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria. He is the coordinator of the Council for the Bachelor Degree and the Master Degree in Civil Engineering, and a member of the commission for the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) in the competition sector 08/B1- Geotechnics, for the period 2021-2023. TEACHING ACTIVITY He has carried out a long and intense teaching activity in the context of the degree programs in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, at the University of Calabria. Specifically, he held the following courses: Foundation Engineering, since 1993 Earth Retaining Structures, since 2001 Measures for Landslide Mitigation, from 2005 to 2010 Design of Geotechnical Structures, from 2004 to 2011 He served as tutor of some hundreds of dissertations for the Master Degree in Civil Engineering, Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering, Bachelor Degree in Environment Engineering, Master Degree in Civil Engineering and Master Degree in Environment Engineering. He was also tutor of many students during their stage at public institutions and private companies. Member of the academic board of the PhD Course in Geotechnical Engineering, subsequently Geotechnical and Chemical Materials Engineering, at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria from 2000 to 2012, where he served as supervisor of five PhD students. Since 2012, he is a member of the academic board of the PhD Course in Civil and Industrial Engineering (DICI), at the University of Calabria. For the same PhD Course, he served as the coordinator in the period 2020-2023. He actively contributed to masters and professional training courses, and was invited by various institutions to hold seminars and conferences on topics of geotechnical engineering. RESEARCH ACTIVITY The research activity concerns various topics of geotechnical engineering. The main ones are: geological and topographic effects on the seismic site response soil liquefaction and earthquake-induced permanent deformations of slopes seismic response of earth structures and dams seismic wave propagation in partially saturated porous media bearing capacity and settlements of shallow and deep foundations consolidation processes in saturated and partially saturated soils soil-structure interaction under static and dynamic loads slope stability analysis simulation of the pre-failure, failure, post-failure and reactivation stages of landslides ground improvement techniques for stabilising soils and slopes. The research activity is documented by many papers published in the conference proceedings and key journals in the field of geotechnical engineering. Some results of his studies are mentioned in noteworthy books and handbooks. Among the awards received for his scientific activity, it is worth mentioning a paper selected as "Best Paper" among the articles published in the international journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (Elsevier Ed.) in 2000, and a paper nominated as one of the most representative articles in the field of the numerical methods applied to geotechnical engineering, published in Soils and Foundations (Japanese Geotechnical Society). His papers submitted to VQR 2004-2010, VQR 2011-2014 and VQR 2015-2019 were ranked with the highest rating. He also received the Individual Funding of Basic Research Activities for the papers published in the period 2012-2016 (Italian Law 232/2016). He was included in the list of world’s top 2% scientists" in the field of Engineering, published by the Plos Biology Journal and by Stanford University, both for the annual ranking and for that relating to the academic career. He is member of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica, academic editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering and guest editor of two Special Issues of Water; all these journals are registered in the database Scopus or WoS. He served as reviewer for many international journals, and for several research products submitted for the VQR 2011-14. Member of the scientific committee for scientific conferences, the Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dalle Catastrofi Idrogeologiche, the Technical Committee TC 302 (International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering), and the scientific board of the Italian Geotechnical Society. He was one of the founding partners of the academic spin-off called SIRiA (Integrated Services and Research for Environment) operating in the field of prevention, monitoring and mitigation of environmental, seismic and hydrogeological hazards. He is a member of the Italian Geotechnical Association and of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He took part in scientific studies commissioned by important public institutions, such as the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, through the Commissario Delegato for the hydrogeological emergency in Calabria, and the Dipartimento Nazionale della Protezione Civile. In addition, he took part in the following research projects: - “Deformazioni gravitative dei versanti nell’Italia centro-meridionale”, PRIN 1998. - “Caratterizzaione geotecnica del sottosuolo ed analisi della propagazione delle vibrazioni prodotte da traffico ferroviario superficiale e sotterraneo”, PRIN 2004. - “Risposta sismica delle fondazioni su pali e stabilità sismica dei pendii”, PRIN 2007. - “Fondazioni profonde”, Linea di ricerca 6.4, project RELUIS (Rete Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica). - “Sistemi integrati per il monitoraggio, l’early warning e la mitigazione del rischio idrogeologico lungo le grandi vie di comunicazione”, PON Ricerca & Competitività 2007-2013. He also was: - scientific supervisor of several research projects funded by the National Research Council - scientific supervisor for the research unit of the University of Calabria in the project ReLUIS (Rete Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica), Linea di ricerca “Scavi profondi a cielo aperto in ambiente urbano e gallerie metropolitane” - scientific supervisor for the research unit of the University of Calabria in the project ReLUIS (Rete Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica), Linea di ricerca MT1.2 "Linee guida e codici di calcolo per l'analisi di risposta sismica locale" - scientific supervisor for the experimental activities and monitoring systems in the project “Sistemi integrati per il monitoraggio, l’early warning e la mitigazione del rischio idrogeologico lungo le grandi vie di comunicazione”, PON Ricerca & Competitività 2007-2013. - scientific supervisor for the geotechnical area in the project SILA (Sistema Integrato di Laboratori per l'Ambiente), PON Ricerca & Competitività 2007-2013 - scientific supervisor for the academic spin-off SIRiA in the project named DARN (Dispositivo di Allerta per Rischi Naturali), PO FESR-FSE 2014-2020 - principal investigator for the project named “Seismic failure and post-failure response of slopes”, PRIN 2022. MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES He was a member of many selection boards for positions of assistant professor, associate professor, full professor and research grants. He was also a member of the scientific board for the selection and final examination of PhD students, at several universities. He served as vice-director of the Department of Ground Protection and Department of Civil Engineering, member of the board of the above departments, scientific supervisor of the Geotechnical Laboratory, delegate for Research, Third Mission, and Public Engagement of the Department of Civil Engineering, and member of the discipline committee of the University of Calabria. Referring to other activities, he took part in the Unità di Crisi of the Prefettura of Cosenza and in the Task Force of the University of Calabria for the hydrogeological emergency in Calabria due to the rainfall events occurred in 2009 and 2010. On behalf of this university, he also carried out technical-scientific consultancy for public institutions.
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