CV – Ada Amendola

RESEARCHER IDENTIFIERS:

– Orcid ID: 0000-0002-2562-881X;
– Scopus Author ID: 55539189220;
– ResearcherID: Y-1280-2019;
– Loop: 528072;
– Google Scholar: Ada Amendola

Nationality: Italy

01/02/2017 PhD “Doctor Europaeus” in Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy, 01/02/2017 (Grade: excellent). PhD thesis project: “On the mechanics of innovative metamaterials alternating pentamode lattices and confinement plates”, Advisors: Fernando Fraternali (University of Salerno) and Gianmario Benzoni (University of California San Diego)
21/03/2013 MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy, March 2013 (Grade: “Laurea magistrale cum laude”). MSc thesis project: “Experimental characterization of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube foams”, Advisors: Fernando Fraternali (University of Salerno) and Chiara Daraio (California Institute of Technology)
29/03/2010 BSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy, March (Grade: “Laurea cum laude”). BSc thesis project: “Multiscale mechanical modeling of carbon nanotube foams”, Advisors: Fernando Fraternali (University of Salerno) and Chiara Daraio (California Institute of Technology)

12/2022-present: Associate Professor, in Mechanics and Solids of Structures (“Ricercatore Tipo B, settore Scienza delle Costruzioni”), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy

11/2019–11/2022: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track position of Associate Professor in Mechanics and Solids of Structures (“Ricercatore Tipo B, settore Scienza delle Costruzioni”), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy
02/2017–09/2019: Postdoctoral research assistant in Mechanics of Solids and Structures

Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Vitali Nesterenko’s and Bob Skelton’s research groups) and the Caltrans Seismic Response Modification Device Test Facility (Gianmario Benzoni’s research group), University of California at San Diego, USA, August – October, 2015
Visiting Research Scholar at the Mercury Centre, University of Sheffield, UK, July 2015 and July – September, 2014 (Russell Goodall’s research group)
Visiting Research Scholar at ETH Zurich, November 2014 – January 2015 (Chiara Daraio’s research group)

Best Student Paper Award, “3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Composites” (MECHCOMP3), Bologna, 4-7 July 2017, paper: “On the mechanics of composite metamaterials based on confined pentamode lattices“
Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop “Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures” (MIMS16), Cetara (Salerno), 28-30 October 2016, paper: “On the mechanical modeling of layered pentamode lattices“
“A. Genovesi” Award, ANCE (Italian Association of Builders), winner of the research section with a project for the development of a solar panel factory in Vallo della Lucania (Salerno), July 2011
Mechanics of Solids and Structures Scholarship, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, September-December 2010
Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology, December 2008 – February 2009

2018-2020: Rational Mechanics (“Meccanica Razionale”), BS in Civil Eng. (6 ECTS credits);
2017-2020: Structural Mechanics (“Scienza delle Costruzioni”), BS in Civil Eng. (3 ECTS credits)
2016-2017: “Advanced Computational Mechanics”, PhD and MSc in Civil Eng. (3 ECTS credits)

Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials (SAM) organized by YRAM (Young Researchers in Acoustic Metamaterials), Ischia, Italy, October 9-11, 2019 (Organizing Committee: https://sam-2019.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9)
2016 International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures” (MIMS16), Cetara (SA), Italy, October 28-30, 2016 (Organizing Committee: multiscale.unisa.it)
International Workshop “Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Innovative Materials and Structures”, Cetara (SA), Italy, May 1-5, 2013 (Organizing Committee: multiscale.unisa.it)

2017-present, Assistant Editor of Curved and Layered Structures, De Gruyter Open (ISSN: 2353-7396, https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cls?lang=en)
2014-present, Review Editor of Frontiers in Materials, Section: Mechanics of Materials, Frontiers (ISSN: 2296-8016, https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials#editorial-board)

Gianmario Benzoni, Seismic engineering, Caltrans Seismic Response Modification Device, University of California San Diego, USA – Chiara Daraio, Mechanical and acoustic metamaterials, California Institute of Technology, USA- Russell Goodall, Additive manufacturing, University of Sheffield, UK – Graeme W. Milton, Extreme materials, University of Utah, USA – Vitali F. Nesterenko, Nonlinear wave dynamics of metamaterials, University of California, San Diego, USA – Bernd Schmidt, Multiscale mechanics, University of Augsburg, Germany – Robert E. Skelton, Tensegrity structures, Texas A&M Aerospace Engineering & University of California San Diego, USA

Project Title	Funding source	Amount €	Period	Role
Young Investigator Grant GNFM 2019	Italian Group of Physical Mathematics (GNFM)	3,600	Years 2019-2020	Principal Investigator
FARB 2016-2019	University of Salerno, local funding for basic research	9,000	Years 2016-2019	Member of the Research Group

*Project Title*	*Funding source*	*Amount €*	*Period*	*Role*
INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS	Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ITA-USA Scientific Cooperation, University of Salerno – University of California, San Diego	100,000	Years 2014-2015	Member of the Research Unit at the University of Salerno

SCIENTIFIC HABILITATION
- Associate Professor Habilitation (“Abilitazione Scientica Nazionale per Professore di II Fascia”), Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, April 2018, Habilitation area: Structural Mechanics (“Scienza delle Costruzioni”)
POST-PhD AWARDS
- Young Investigator Grant GNFM 2019, Italian Group of Physical Mathematics (Gruppo Nazionale di Fisica Matematica), Period: 2019-2020, Amount granted: 3,600 Eur, role: PI
- International Computational Method Young Investigator Award, “9^th International Conference on Computational Methods” (ICCM2018) Rome, 10 August 201 (http://www.sci-en-tech.com/ICCM2018/ICCM%20Awardee%20List.pdf), Motivation: In recognition of your outstanding accomplishments through published papers”
- AIMETA Junior 2017 Award in “Mechanics of Solids and Structures”. Award received during the XXIII Congress of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Special AIMETA Awards Session, Salerno, 6 September 2017 (http://www.aimeta2017.unisa.it/node/27), Motivation: “For the results obtained by conjugating computational and experimental approaches in the modeling of tensegrity structures, with application to the design of new materials and structures with desired constitutive and dynamic response”