Filippo Berto

In 2003, Filippo Berto is graduated in Industrial Engineering at the University of Padua (Italy). After that, he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florence (Italy), in 2006.[1]

He was professor of machine design at the University of Padua, Italy, between 2006 and 2015. Since 2022, Filippo Berto is a full professor and is a chair in the mechanics of materials at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.[2] Filippo Berto was an international chair in mechanics of materials, mechanical metallurgy, fracture mechanics, fatigue, and structural integrity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, from 2016 to 2022.

He has been visiting professor in Stanford University (United States) where he has collaborated with Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory.[3] He is also holding some honorary chair professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)[4] and Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa).[5] In 2021, Filippo Berto was a Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University through the Changjiang Scholars Program from 2020 to 2023.[1]

He has been collaborating with CERN until the end of 2022 for testing and characterizing materials for The Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Filippo Berto was an adjunct professor at the prestigious Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben led by Jürgen Eckert. He has been an adjunct professor at SUPSI University in Switzerland until the beginning of 2023.[6]

He is also collaborating with the Centre of Excellence of additive manufacturing established in Auburn[7] and in particular with Nima Shamsaei and Mohsen Seifi who is chair of additive manufacturing programs in ASTM.[8] Filippo Berto is also voting member of ASTM F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies[9] and ASTM E08 on Metal Fatigue and Fracture.[10]

He is chairman of the technical committee ESIS TC15 on Structural Integrity of additive manufactured components of European Structural Integrity Society. From 2021 and 2022, Filippo Berto is President of the Italian Group of Fracture [11] and Vice-President of the European Structural Integrity Society,[12] respectively.

Filippo Berto has a role in the Italian Group of Fracture being president[13] since 2019 and co-editor in chief of the associated journal.[14] He is Editor of several scientific journals, such as, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures.[15] In addition, he belongs to the editorial board of several leading scientific journals in the area of fatigue, fracture and structural integrity, such as, Materials & Design,[16] International Journal of Fatigue,[17] Safety Science,[18] Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics,[19] Materials Science and Engineering: A,[20] Advanced Engineering Materials,[21] Polymer Testing,[22] Strength of Materials,[23] among others. He has been the founder, head, and, scientific leader of the mechanical testing laboratory at the Department of mechanical and industrial engineering in NTNU,[24] that he has built since 2016 attracting financial support from different sources.

As technical Chair of TC15 is also the founder of the series of European conferences on additive manufacturing ESIAM.[25] He is also one of the founder of the ESIS TC18 on Structural Integrity of Welded Joints and treasurer of the same TC.[26] Besides, Filippo Berto is in the list of 2% top scientist released by Stanford University.[27] In Europe, he is among the first twenty positions in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Transports and among the first 3 positions dealing with fracture and fatigue problems. He is a top author in the last 5 years (2015–2020) in several topics such as (V-notches, Strain Energy Density, T-Stress) in Scopus, where he is also among the first three top authors all-time in fatigue. Berto has educated more than 20 PhDs students and more than 200 master students.[1] He is among the top reviewers and top authors in 2020 in the field of structural integrity.[28]

• Physical and mechanical properties of traditional and innovative metals considering multiscale effects in terms of damage and degradation[1]
• Effect of process parameters on the mechanical properties of additively manufacture metals[1]
• Effect of process parameters on the mechanical behaviour of innovative solid-state multi-metals weldments[1]
• Physical and mechanical properties of traditional and innovative metals in presence of defects[1]
• SEM/TEM characterization of crack initiation and propagation in metallic materials[1]
• Mechanical behaviour of magnesium alloys for biomedical applications[1]
• Hot-dip galvanization and its influence on the mechanical behaviour of metal[1]
• Atomic layer deposition and other advanced techniques for coatings of metals[1]
• Physical and mechanical properties of metallic weldments[1]
• Physical and mechanical properties of pure lead used for nuclear applications (in collaboration with CERN)[1]
• Mechanical behaviour of metals under complex loadings and environmental conditions[1]
• Local approaches and their application to fatigue (material)[1]

• ESIS Fellowship 2022, European Structural Integrity Society (2022) [29]
• Order of the Star of Italy 2021, President of the Republic, Italy (2021) [30]
• Robert Moskovic Award 2021, ESIS TC12 Technical Committee, European Structural Integrity Society (2021) [31]
• August Wöhler Medal Medal for Fatigue, European Structural Integrity Society (2020)[32]
• Structural Integrity Award of Merit, Springer Science+Business Media (2020) [33]
• Paolo Lazzarin IGF Medal, Italian Group of Fracture (2019)[34]
• Award of Merit, European Structural Integrity Society (2018)[35]
• Stephen Timoshenko Fellow, University of Stanford (2018)[36]
• CAPOCACCIA award, AIAS (2013)[37]