Education
PRIVATE1941-1949
liceo classico (highschool with emphasis on humanities).

1950-1955
University of Trieste, Italy, Faculty of Engineering: laurea in Industrial Mechanical Engineering, cum laude

1956-1958
University of Rome, Italy, Post-Graduate School of Aerospace Engineering: laurea di specializzazione; in Aeronautical Engineering, cum laude.

Academic appointments
PRIVATE19 59-1960
Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of Trieste, Italy.

1961-1964
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Milan, Italy.

1964
Research Associate, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

1965-1969
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and, since 1966, Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy.

1966
Research Associate, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

1967
Research Associate, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.

1970-present
Professor of Structural Mechanics and Engineering (Scienza delle Costruzioni), Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy.

1970-1971
Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.

1975-1978
Head, Department of Structural Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy.

1997
MTS Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Honors

1963
Virgilio Affer Prize, Italian Association for Steel Construction (ACAI).

1968
Professor L.Stabilini Prize, Politecnico di Milano.

1978
Rancati Prize, Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Milan.

1981
Feltrinelli Prize, for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome.

1984
Copernicus Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

1984-present
Foreign Fellow, Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw.

1985-present
Fellow, Italian National Academy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), Rome.

1985
Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering honoris causa, Aristotele University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

1990-present
Fellow, Academy of Lombardy (Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere), Milan.

1991-present
Foreign Associate, Royal Society of South Africa, Cape Town.

1992-present
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

1992
Docteur ès Sciences Appliquées honoris causa, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium.

1993-present
Member, Italian National Academy of Sciences (Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL), Rome.

1997-present
Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

1998
Fellow, International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM).

1998
University Medal , University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

1998-present
Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

2000-present
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Engineering, Moscow.

2000
The Warner T. Koiter Medal of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Editorial activities
PRIVATE1971-present
Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

1971-present
Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

1974-present
Advisory Editorial Board, Int. Journal Mechanics Research Communications.

1976-1991
Board of External Editors, Int. Journal Solid Mechanics Archives.

1978-present
International Editorial Board, Int. Journal Engineering Structures.

1980-present
International Editorial Board, Int. Journal Applied Mathematical Modelling.

1982-1986
Editor, Meccanica, Journal of the Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA).

1986-1996
Editorial Advisory Board, Int. Journal Microcomputers in Civil Engineering.

1988-present
Editorial Board, Int. Journal Structural Optimization.

1988-1994
Associate Editor, European Journal of Mechanics/Solids; since1995 member of its Advisory Editorial Board

1989-present
International Editorial Board of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica.

1990-1996
Editorial Board, International Journal of Solids and Structures.

1994-1998
Editorial Board International Journal of Engineering Analysis and Design.

1995-present
Editorial Board, Rendiconti Accademia Nazionale Lincei: Matematica e Applicazioni (Proceedings of the Italian Academy).

1996-present
Advisory Editorial Board, Archives of Mechanics.

1997-present
Editorial Board, Archive of Applied Mechanics (“Ingenieur Archiv”)

1999-present
Editorial Board, Int. Journal Global Optimization.

1999-present
Board of Editors, Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences.

2000-present
Editorial Board, Computers and Structures.