Nicola Pugno

Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian mechanician, structural and materials scientist, mechanical engineer and physicist,[1][2] holding PhDs in fracture mechanics and biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento, founder of the Mechano-X Labs[3] (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin, founder of the Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics "Giuseppe Maria Pugno"[4][5]) and part-time professor of materials science at Queen Mary University of London.[6] He is also Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford.[7]

He has been appointed to several committees, including the technical and scientific committee[8] of the Italian Space Agency, and has served as a plenary speaker at various international workshops, events and conferences, including Falling Walls,[9] the World Economic Forum[10][11] and the European Parliament,[12] invited by the European Research Council (ERC), as well as the opening plenary speaker at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2020+1).[13] He is an editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of Frontiers in Materials.[14]

Pugno has published a moltitude of papers in international journals.[15] For his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion (e.g., proposals for high-strength (hierarchical) bio-inspired materials, high-toughness (knotted) fibers, high-strength nanotube/graphene cables (and composites), "bionicomposites" such as spider silk spun by spiders fed with nanomaterials, bio-inspired (hierarchical) metamaterials, tunable friction surfaces, superadhesive or antiadhesive (e.g. anti-ice) surfaces, nanoelectromechanical systems modelling, quantized/finite fracture mechanics, multiple peeling theories, etc.), he has received several awards. These include the first edition of the GiovedìScienza prize in 2012 (for both research and science popularization[16]), the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize[17] in 2017 and the Humboldt Research Award[18] in 2022. Since 2011, he has been awarded several grants from the European Union, mainly within the Excellent Science pillars — including ERC grants[19] — for both fundamental science[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] and high-tech transfer,[28][29][30][31][32] which he is developing for various high-tech industries.

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  2. ^ "Nicola M Pugno - AD Scientific Index 2025". www.adscientificindex.com.
  3. ^ "Nicola Pugno - Solid and Structural Mechanics Group - University of Trento". pugno.dicam.unitn.it.
  4. ^ "DISEG - Laboratorio Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics". DISEG.
  5. ^ "MUSEO VIRTUALE - Gli ingegneri - Giuseppe Maria Pugno". areeweb.polito.it.
  6. ^ "Prof Nicola Pugno". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  7. ^ "Home". staff.admin.ox.ac.uk.
  8. ^ "Samantha Cristoforetti chiama il Muse". Trentino Cultura.
  9. ^ "Nicola Pugno | Falling Walls". falling-walls.com.
  10. ^ "Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012". ERC.
  11. ^ "Nicola Pugno". World Economic Forum.
  12. ^ "ERA Portal Austria – ERC celebrates 5,000th top researcher funded". era.gv.at.
  13. ^ "Plenary Lecturers | ICTAM 2020". www.ictam2020.org.
  14. ^ "Frontiers in Materials | Editorial board". www.frontiersin.org.
  15. ^ "Nicola M. Pugno". scholar.google.it.
  16. ^ "GiovedìScienza: la scienza in diretta settimana per settimana - torinoscienza.it". archivio.torinoscienza.it.
  17. ^ "Professor Nicola Pugno wins the IOM3's Griffith Medal & Prize". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  18. ^ Tomassetti, Giuseppe (November 23, 2022). "Humboldt Research Award 2022 a Nicola Pugno".
  19. ^ "A new European research project in Trento | UniTrento Press Room". pressroom.unitn.it.
  20. ^ "Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials | BIHSNAM Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  21. ^ "Advanced Quantized FRActure MEchanics models of ice and snow for GLObal Warming risk mitigation | FRAMEGLOW Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  22. ^ "Bio-Inspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials | BOHEME Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  23. ^ "Biofunctionalised Electroconducting Microfibres for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury | Neurofibres Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  24. ^ "Ramp Up Phase Highlights from the Graphene Flagship". Graphene Flagship.
  25. ^ "Graphene-based disruptive technologies | GrapheneCore1 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  26. ^ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 2 | GrapheneCore2 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  27. ^ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 3 | GrapheneCore3 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  28. ^ "SILKENE: Bionic silk with graphene or other nanomaterials spun by silkworms | SILKENE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  29. ^ "REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces | REPLICA2 Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  30. ^ "KNOTOUGH: Super-tough knotted fibers | KNOTOUGH Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  31. ^ "acouStIc metamateriaL for MRI noisE caNCEllation | SILENCE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  32. ^ "Bioinspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials for Railways | BioMetaRail Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
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