Current Academic Position

Professor of Structural Engineering and Wind Engineering at the University of Genoa (UNIGE), Member of the Teaching College of the Research Doctorate School in Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa, Visiting Professor and Senior Adviser of the first Academic Council of Beijing’s Key Laboratory of Structural Wind Engineering and Urban Wind Environment at the Beijing Jaotong University, Beijing, China,and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Honorary Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University and Central South University Changsha, China.

Professional experiences

Wind Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Structural Safety and Reliability, Random Processes, Structural Engineering, Infrastructural Systems.

Biography

Robert H. Scanlan Medal 2017 (Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers)

Awarded by the European Research Council with an Advanced Grant 2016 for the Project THUNDERR

Honorary Doctor Honoris Causa (2016, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania)

Raymond C. Reese Research Prize 2014 (American Society for Civil Engineers)

Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (from 2014) of the American Society for Civil Engineers

Otto H.G. Flachsbart Medal 2013 (Windtechnologische Gesellschaft e.V. Germany – Austria – Switzerland)

Alan G. Davenport Medal 2011 (International Association for Wind Engineering)

Jack E. Cermack Medal 2006 (American Society of Civil Engineers)

President of the International Association for Wind Engineering (2003-2007)

President of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (1999-2003)

European and African Coordinator of the International Association for Wind Engineering (1997-2005)

Co-Editor in Chief of Wind & Structures, an International Journal (1997-2005)

Series Editor of Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (from2017)

Member of the Liguria Academy of Science and Letters (from 2005)

Coordinates

Prof. Giovanni Solari

Departments of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Polytechnic School, University of Genoa

Via Montallegro, 1

16145 Genoa

Italy