External Collaborator
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Doctoral School (SCDOTT)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center SISCON - Safety of Infrastructures and Constructions
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Researcher in civil and environmental engineering, specializing in natural hazards, hazard analysis and mitigation, with a focus on rockfall. Winner of the highly competitive European Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01), she is currently a Marie Curie Researcher (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/ 101103401) at Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) with a project related to fragmentation processes in rockfall propagation and risk analysis in mountain and mining contexts, and is currently carrying out her research activities at the Centre for Geotechnical Science and Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Previously an fixed-term Assistant Professor, and formerly a postdoctoral fellow at POLITO, she has been conducting her research mainly on the topics of risk analysis and design of structuralmitigation measures for the past 7 years. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, devoted to debris flow, her research focused on rock slope instability phenomena. She is an active member of the Rockfall Protection Engineering Research Center and the Multidisciplinary Interdepartmental Center SISCON at POLITO. She has published 48 papers so far: 27 in international peer reviewed journals; 21 in national and international conference proceedings. She has actively participated in 22 research projects funded by the EU, national and local governments, and industry, related to natural hazard assessment and mitigation measures. She is on the editorial board of a peer-reviewed journal on Environmental and Mining Geoengineering and reviewer of several international journals. She has been on the scientific and organizational committees of 3 national and 2 international conferences. She holds the Italian scientific qualification for associate professor in "excavation Engineering" . Since 2018, she has been an adjunct professor at the POLITO, tutor of 13 master's theses and co-tutor of 2 doctoral students.
Curriculum
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Teachings
PhD
- Rockfall protection techniques. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Opere di protezione contro la caduta massi. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Opere di protezione contro la caduta massi. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Opere di protezione contro la caduta massi. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Opere di protezione contro la caduta massi. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Opere di protezione contro la caduta massi. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Ground improvement engineering. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Ground improvement engineering. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Consolidamento di rocce e terreni. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Challenge@PoliTo by Firms - Dream Your Outdoor. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Landslides and slope engineering. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Landslides and slope engineering. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Consolidamento di rocce e terreni. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Landslides and slope engineering. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Consolidamento di rocce e terreni. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Sviluppo delle buone pratiche, delle metodologie e degli strumenti per la quantificazione del rischio caduta massi e per la gestione dello stesso, (2025-2027) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Francesco Pimpinella. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Study of the expected working life and maintenance procedure for flexible rockfall barriers
Structural Design and Safety Earthquake Engineering Geoengineering Structural Design and Safety Earthquake Engineering Geoengineering Structural Design and Safety Earthquake Engineering Geoengineering - Stefano Vigna. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Innovative Approaches to the Dynamic Behavior of Rockfall Protection Embankments
Geoengineering Geotechnical Engineering Numerical Modelling and Simulation Soil and Rock Mechanics Geoengineering Geotechnical Engineering Numerical Modelling and Simulation Soil and Rock Mechanics
Publications
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Last years publications
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- De Biagi, Valerio; Marchelli, Maddalena (2025)
An experimental setup to study the collision force between brittle impacting bodies. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMPACT ENGINEERING, vol. 196, pp. 1-9. ISSN 0734-743X
Contributo su Rivista - Pimpinella, Francesco; Marchelli, Maddalena; Lanter, Andreas; De Biagi, Valerio (2024)
Numerical back-analysis of impacted rockfall barriers steel posts: discussion on the effectiveness of the system. In: International Landslides Symposium 2024, Chambery (Fr), 8-12/07/2024, pp. 1-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Vigna, Stefano; Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio; Nadalini, Matteo; Grimod, ... (2024)
The impact of clips between the reinforced layers on the performance of rockfall protection embankment. In: International Landslides Symposium 2024, Chambery (Fr), 8-12/07/2024, pp. 1-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio; Peila, Daniele (2024)
A probabilistic method to assess rockfall risk on mountaineering trail: the Couloir du Goûter study case. In: International Landslides Symposium 2024, Chambery (Fr), 8-12/07/2024, pp. 1-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Vigna, Stefano; Marchelli, Maddalena; Colombero, Chiara; De Biagi, Valerio; Nadalini, ... (2024)
Rockfall protection embankments: insights into impact effects. In: Eurock 2024 - ISRM European Rock Mechanics Symposium, Alicante, 15-19/07/2024, pp. 1465-1470
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; Pol, Antonio (2024)
Effect of the anchoring pattern on the mechanical behavior of anchored mesh systems. In: Eurock 2024, Alicante, 15-19/07/2024, pp. 1-6
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio; Chiaia, Bernardino (2024)
A fully probabilistic framework to compute the residual rockfall risk in presence of mitigation measures. In: LANDSLIDES. ISSN 1612-510X
Contributo su Rivista - Kiakojouri, Foad; De Biagi, Valerio; Marchelli, Maddalena; Chiaia, Bernardino (2024)
A conceptual note on the definition of initial failure in progressive collapse scenarios. In: STRUCTURES, vol. 60, pp. 1-9. ISSN 2352-0124
Contributo su Rivista - Salvatore, Walter; Morelli, Francesco; Palma, Vittorio; Peila, Daniele; Carigi, Andrea; ... (2024)
A new methodology for the multi-risk assessment of existing road tunnels. In: II Fabre Conference - Existing bridges, viaducts and tunnels: research, innovation and applications (FABRE24), pp. 1112-1119. ISSN 2452-3216
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Pérez-Rey, Ignacio; Alejano, Leandro Rafael; Estévez-Ventosa, X.; Gonzàles-Fernàndez, ... (2024)
Comparison of voussoir-beam stability assessments in underground rooms based on analytical and numerical methods. In: Eurock 2024, Alicante, 15-19/07/2024, pp. 1-6
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Pimpinella, Francesco; Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio (2023)
Mechanical insights on energy dissipating devices behaviour. In: EMI 2023 International Conference, Palermo, August 27-30 2023
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Vigna, Stefano; Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio; Peila, Daniele (2023)
Numerical Simulation of Rockfall Protection Embankments in Natural Soil. In: GEOSCIENCES, vol. 13, pp. 1-21. ISSN 2076-3263
Contributo su Rivista - Marchelli, Maddalena; Chiaia, Bernardino; De Biagi, Valerio (2023)
Rock blocks impacts on masonry walls: modelling for vulnerability evaluation. In: EMI 2023 International Conference, Palermo, August 27-30 2023
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; Coltrinari, Gianluca; Alfaro Degan, Guido; Peila, Daniele (2023)
Towards a procedure to manage safety on construction sites of rockfall protective measures. In: SAFETY SCIENCE, vol. 168, pp. 1-8. ISSN 0925-7535
Contributo su Rivista - Bovet, E.; De Biagi, V.; Durand, N.; Debernardi, A.; Marchelli, M.; Roveyaz, S. (2023)
A multilevel framework for the management of energy infrastructures involved by avalanches. In: International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) 2023, Bend, Oregon, October 8-13, 2023, pp. 1-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; Deangeli, Chiara (2023)
A time-independent reliability based design approach for debris flow flexible barriers. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEBRIS-FLOW HAZARD MITIGATION, TORINO, JUNE 26-29, 2023. ISSN 2267-1242
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, M; De Biagi, V. (2023)
An Efficient Reliability-based Design Approach to Reduce Rockfall Risk Below a Target Threshold. In: Impact of global changes on landslides hazard and risk, Oslo, 7-10 June 2023, pp. 88-91
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; Peila, Daniele; Giacomini, Anna (2023)
Rockfall in open pit mines: management of the pit geometry and protection measures design. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, vol. 170, pp. 1-15. ISSN 1365-1609
Contributo su Rivista - Marchelli, Maddalena; De Biagi, Valerio (2023)
Event tree analysis and time-integrated reliability design approach for quantifying rockfall risk reduction. In: 15th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering & 72nd Geomechanics Colloquium, Salzburg, October 9-14, 2023, pp. 1132-1137
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Marchelli, Maddalena; Pol, Antonio; Peila, Daniele; Gabrieli, Fabio (2023)
Towards a Hybrid Design Approach of Anchored Drapery Systems. In: GEOSCIENCES, vol. 13, pp. 1-17. ISSN 2076-3263
Contributo su Rivista
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Patents and other intellectual properties
- Software analisi impatto . national Software
Inventors: Valerio De Biagi Maddalena Marchelli - Dispositivo Di Misura Della Forza Di Impatto Tra Corpi Che Possono Frammentarsi. national and international Patent
Inventors: Valerio De Biagi Maddalena Marchelli