Prof. GIAN MICHELE CALVI

Date of Birth: 18 June 1957

POSITION

  • Professor of Structural Design, Università degli Studi di Pavia
  • Director, Structures Laboratory of the Department of Structural Mechanics
  • Director, EUCENTRE – European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering
  • Director, ROSE School – Centre for Post-Graduate Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology,
  • Via Ferrata, 1 – 27100 Pavia - Italy
  • Phone: (+39) 0382 595468
  • Fax: (+39) 0382 595468
  • e-mail: gm.calvi@unipv.it


EDUCATION

  • Politecnico di Milano (Italy), PhD, Structural Engineering, 1987
  • University of California, Berkeley, MSc, Civil Engineering, 1985
  • Università degli Studi di Pavia, Civil Engineering, 1981


ACADEMIC HISTORY

  • 2003 – Present Director, EUCENTRE – European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Pavia, Italy
  • 2002 – 2003 Director, Department of Structural Mechanics, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 2001 – Present Coordinator, Doctoral Programme in Seismic Engineering, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 2000 – Present Director, ROSE School – European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy
  • 2000 – Present Professor, Structural Design, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 1997 – Present Director, Structures Laboratory, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 1996 – 2000 Member of the College of Professors of the Doctorate in Seismic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • 1992 – 1999 Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 1990 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • 1990 – 1992 Lecturer, Department of Structural Mechanics, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • 1987 – 1989 Research Assistant, Department of Structural Mechanics, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy


HONORS/KEYNOTE AND GUEST LECTURES/STATE-OF-THE-ART PRESENTATIONS

  • Research Scholarship for the 4th Residential Course ILAUD (International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design), 1979
  • Fullbright – Hays Fellowship, Commission for Cultural Exchanges between U.S.A. and Italy, 1984 – 1985
  • Research Doctoral Scholarship, 1984 – 1986
  • Research Scholarship, Foundation Stiftelsen Blanceflor Boncompagni Ludovisi fodd Bildt (Stockholm), 1985
  • Research Scholarship, ISMES, Bergamo, Italy, 1987
  • Research Scholarship, ISMES, Bergamo, Italy, 1988
  • Participation in more than 50 international congresses
  • Several seminars held in European and American Universities
  • Opening Lecture of the European Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Paris, 1998.
  • Invitation for a Keynote Lecture at the World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, 2004


PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than one hundred and twenty publications. Subjects of research related to design and assessment of reinforced concrete bridges and of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, with emphasis on either experimental or numerical aspects.

 

Selected Recent Publications

  • Sullivan, T.J., Calvi, G.M., Priestley, M.J.N. and Kowalsky, M.J. [2003] The limitations and performances of different displacement based design methods, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 7, SP1, to be published.
  • Calvi, G.M., Magenes, G., Pampanin, S., [2002], "Relevance of beam-column joint damage and collapse in rc frame assessment", Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 6, Special Issue 1, pp. 75-100.
  • Calvi, G.M. and D. Bolognini [2002] "Seismic response of reinforced concrete frames infilled with weak reinforced masonry panels", Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 153-186.
  • Priestley, M.J.N. and Calvi, G.M. [2002] Strategies for repair ad seismic upgrading of Bolu Viaduct 1, Turkey, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 6, SP1, pp. 157-184.
  • Borzi, B., G.M. Calvi, A.S. Elnashai, E. Faccioli and J.J. Bommer [2001] "Inelastic spectra for displacement based seismic design", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 21, pp. 47-61.


OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES IN LAST YEARS

  • Seismic design or verification of more than one hundred buildings and bridges.
  • Member, Scientific Board of the Italian National Group for Defense against Earthquake (GNDT)
  • Chairman, WG 2 ("Displacement based design") of the fib (Federation Internationale du Beton)
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering