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Alessio Ferrari
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Soil Mechanics Laboratory
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PhD
birth date: 31.08.1976
nationality: Italian
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office(s):
GCD0425
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32324
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MISSION
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Research assistant at the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (LMS/EPFL)
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BIOGRAPHY
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2009 - present, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland).
2008 - 2009, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain). Financed by the European Community within the Marie Curie Research and Training Network ‘Mountain Risks’. Supervisors: Prof. Jordi Corominas, Prof. Alberto Ledesma.
2007 - 2008. Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Financed by the European Community within the Marie Curie Research and Training Network ‘Mountain Risks’. Supervisor: Prof. Lyesse Laloui.
2007, PhD in Geotechnical Engineering.
Consortium Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria – Università degli Studi di Palermo – Università della Calabria.
Thesis: Characterization of a compacted scaly clay in unsaturated condition: effects of suction on shear strength (in Italian).
Supervisors: Prof. N. Moraci (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria) & Prof. C. Airò Farulla (Università degli Studi di Palermo). Presented in February 22nd, 2007 to the committee composed of Prof. M. Maugeri, Prof. L. Picarelli & Prof. F. Colleselli.
2003 - 2004, Civil Engineer, Progetti e Opere srl (Italy), consulting company.
2003, Qualification as Civil and Environmental Engineer
Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Palermo (Italy).
2003, 5-year Degree in Environmental Engineering – “Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente ed il Territorio – indirizzo Difesa del Suolo” (magna cum laude), Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy).
1995, High School Degree (60/60 i.e. with first class honours), Liceo Scientifico E. Basile, Palermo (Italy).
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Ferrari, A., Laloui, L. and Bonnard, Ch. Geomechanical modelling of an unstable natural slope: the Steinernase landslide. Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, accepted.
Airò Farulla, C., Ferrari, A. and Romero, E. Volume change behaviour of a compacted scaly clay during cyclic suction changes. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, accepted.
Ferrari, A., Ldesma, A., González, D.A. and Corominas, J. (2009). Efectos de la evolucíon del pie en el comportamiento de deslizamientos lentos. In E. Alonso, J. Corominas, and M. Hürlimann, editors, proceedings of the VII Simposio Nacional sobre Taludes y Laderas Inestables, volume 2, pages 605-620, Barcelona, 2009. CIMNE.
Romero, E. and Ferrari, A. (2009). Assessment of the volume change behaviour of clay aggregates by ESEM observation. In Proceedings of the 14th International Clay Conference, Castellaneta Marina (TA), Italy, June 14 -20, 2009.
Ferrari, A., Ldesma, A., González, D.A. and Corominas, J. (2009). Effects of the slope toe evolution on the behaviour of a slow-moving large landslide. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-11988-1.
Ledesma, A., Corominas, J., González, D.A and Ferrari, A. (2009). Modelling slow moving landslides controlled by rainfall. In Proceedings of the 1st Italian Workshop on Landslides, June 8 – 10, 2009. Naples, Italy.
Laloui, L., Ferrari, A. and Bonnard, Ch. (2009). Geomechanical modelling of the Steinernase landslide (Switzerland). In Proceedings of the 1st Italian Workshop on Landslides, June 8 – 10, 2009. Naples, Italy.
Ferrari, A., Airò Farulla, C. and Romero, E. (2009). On the volumetric response of a compacted clay subjected to wetting and drying cycles. In 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Newcastle, Australia, accepted.
Ferrari, A., Laloui, L. and Bonnard, Ch. (2009). Geomechanical modelling of a natural slope affected by a multiple slip surface failure mechanism. 1st International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo I), Juan-les-Pins, France, April 2009.
Airò Farulla, C., Ferrari, A. and Romero, E. (2007). Deformability of compacted tectonised scaly clay in controlled-suction oedometer tests. Third Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soils, 21-23 April 2007, Nanjing, China.
Cardoso, R., Romero, E., Lima, A. and Ferrari, A. (2007). A comparative study of soil suction measurement using two different high-range psychrometers. 2nd Int. Conf. Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils. March 7-9, 2007; Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.
Airò Farulla, C., Ferrari, A. and Romero, E. (2007). Hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted scaly clay during controlled-suction testing. 2nd Int. Conf. Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils. March 7-9, 2007; Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.
Airò Farulla, C., Ferrari, A. and Maira, D. (2006). Analisi della deformabilità di una argilla a scaglie compattata non satura mediante prove cicliche in edometro a suzione controllata. Giornata di Studio sulla Meccanica dei Terreni non Saturi: Compressibilità e caratteristiche di ritenzione dei terreni non saturi. Cassino, 4 dicembre 2006.
Airò Farulla, C., Ferrari, A. and Romero, E. (2006). Comportamento meccanico di un’argilla a scaglie compattata sottoposta a prove cicliche di suzione in edometro. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica (IARG 2006), Pisa, 26-28 giugno 2006.
Airò Farulla, C. and Ferrari, A. (2005). Controlled suction oedometric tests: analysis of some experimental aspects. Proc. Int. Symposium: Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics (EXPERUS), Trento, Italy. 43-48. Balkema Publisher. ISBN 04 1538 337 4.
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