Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering (DISEG)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center SISCON - Safety of Infrastructures and Constructions
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Gian Paolo Cimellaro is currently Professor at the Politecnico di Torino. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2014-2016). He obtained his M.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2008) from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in USA. Graduated cum laude in Civil Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, 2001. He is the Chair of the SHMII Committee on Resilient Structures and Infrastructure (CORSI) of the International Society for structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures. He is also SHMII Council member of the Governing body of the International Society for structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures and General Secretary of ASSISI, Anti-Seismic Systems International Society. Dr. Cimellaro current research interests address community disaster resilience and seismic risk mitigation of civil infrastructures and strategic buildings, monitoring and structural control of building vibrations, probabilistic methods and earthquake engineering. Gian Paolo Cimellaro has been awarded a grant of 1.3 M € by the European Research Council for the research project "IDEAL RESCUE - ERC-2014-StG (2015-2019). This is the most prestigious prize assigned in Europe to researchers, performing high-risk and high-gain ground-breaking research. He has been awarded a grant of 150000 € by the European Research Council for the project IDEAL SENSOR - ERC-2016-PoC (2017-2018) and recently the 2nd project IDEAL DRONE - ERC-2019-PoC (2019-2021). In 2011, he has received the Fib Achievement Award for Young Engineers sponsored by fib - the international federation for structural concrete. In 2015, he has received the Seed Grant Award from the Siebel Energy Institute of UC Berkeley. Best Presentation Award (2017) at the Structural Health monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure Conference 2017 (SHMII-8), Brisbane, Australia. Further details can be found in www.cimellaro.org.
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Research topics
- Disaster resilience at infrastructure and urban level
- Structural control and structural health monitoring
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2015/2016 (31. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Civile ed Edile. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- Advanced seismic protection systems for traditional and timber structures. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Advanced seismic protection systems for traditional and timber structures. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Processi decisionali in condizioni d'emergenza. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Advanced seismic protection systems for traditional and timber structures. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Advanced seismic protection systems for traditional and timber structures. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Design of Timber and Glass structures. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
- Consolidamento strutturale. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Costruzioni esistenti in zona sismica. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Titolare del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2024/25, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica e resilienza dei sistemi urbani. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Consolidamento strutturale. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Design of Timber and Glass structures. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2023/24, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica e resilienza dei sistemi urbani. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Design of wood and glass structures. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
- Costruzioni esistenti in zona sismica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Titolare del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica e resilienza dei sistemi urbani. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica e resilienza dei sistemi urbani. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Design of wood and glass structures. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Costruzioni esistenti in zona sismica. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Titolare del corso
- Earthquake Engineering. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica e resilienza dei sistemi urbani. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Ingegneria sismica. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
- Safety assessment and retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- FOURIER - InnOvative ArtiFicial IntelligencE methodologIes for monitoRing and maintaining large scale complex infrastrUctures and obtaining greener, more Resilient and smart societies, (2024-2028) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Excellent Science - MSCA - ReCharged - “ReCharged” Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies, (2023-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Excellent Science - MSCA - NA - Metodo per lo sviluppo di mappe di funzionalita` post catastrofi su scala urbana, (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - IDEAL DRONE - ERC-2019-POC, (2020-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - ERC - IDEAL SENSOR - ERC_2016_PoC, (2017-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - ERC - IDEal reSCUE - ERC_STG_2014, (2015-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - ERC - IRUSAT - IMPROVING RESILIENCE OF URBAN SOCIETIES THROUGH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, (2014-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - ICRED - INTEGRATED EUROPEAN DISASTER COMMUNITY RESILIENCE, (2010-2014) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - People
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Collaborazione con il Comune di Sant’Agapito in relazione allo studio delle criticità e dell’individuazione di carenze strutturali in edifici del territorio del Comune di Sant’Agapito e in Particolare nella Casa Comunale, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Memoranda of Understanding - Implementazione delle logiche di sistema ed integrazione con test di laboratorio per sensori elettronici di monitoraggio strutturale, (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Analisi e ricerca sperimentale sull’interazione tra i sensori integrati nei materiali compositi, gli adesivi utilizzati per la loro applicazione ed i materiali da costruzione oggetto di monitoraggio, (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progettazione e sviluppo di codici di calcolo e piattaforma SW multifunzione per analisi modale automatica di strutture e interpretazione dei dati mediante algoritmi di apprendimento automatico (machine learding), (2021-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Implementazione dei modelli BIM per l'analisi strutturale, verifica del rischio sismico e valutazione dell'indice di vulnerabilità di tre edifici del patrimonio pubblico del Comune di Melzo., (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - ECRIS - EUROPEAN COMUNITIES RESILIENT INTEGRATED THROUGH SMARTPHONE, (2012-2014) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Simone Salvatori. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (40th cycle, 2025-in progress)
- Adel Bali. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Amir Reza Elahi. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Alessandro Feraudi. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Comprehensive Monitoring and Analysis of Complex Structural Responses to Dynamic Forces
Civil Works Earthquake Engineering Soil and Rock Mechanics Structural and Seismic Monitoring Structural Design and Safety Structural Engineering Civil Works Earthquake Engineering Soil and Rock Mechanics Structural and Seismic Monitoring Structural Design and Safety Structural Engineering - Raffaele Tarantini. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Cosimo Pellecchia. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Collapse Analysis and Selective Retrofitting using the Applied Element Method, AEM
Publications
Publications by type
Most cited publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M.; Bruneau, M. (2010)
Framework for analytical quantification of Disaster resilience. In: ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, vol. 32(2010), pp. 3639-3649. ISSN 0141-0296
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M.; Bruneau, M. (2010)
Seismic resilience of a hospital system. In: STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, vol. 6, pp. 127-144. ISSN 1573-2479
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Renschler, Chris; Reinhorn, Andrei M.; Arendt, Lucy (2016)
PEOPLES: A Framework for Evaluating Resilience. In: JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, vol. 142. ISSN 0733-9445
Contributo su Rivista - Kammouh, O.; Gardoni, P.; Cimellaro, G. P. (2020)
Probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of engineering systems using Bayesian and dynamic Bayesian networks. In: RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY, vol. 198. ISSN 0951-8320
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Tinebra, A.; Renschler, C.; Fragiadakis, M. (2016)
New Resilience Index for Urban Water Distribution Networks. In: JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, vol. 142. ISSN 0733-9445
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Solari, Daniele; Bruneau, Michel (2014)
Physical infrastructure interdependency and regional resilience index after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan. In: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, vol. 43, pp. 1763-1784. ISSN 0098-8847
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Villa, O.; Bruneau, M. (2015)
Resilience-based design of natural gas distribution networks. In: JOURNAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS, vol. 21. ISSN 1076-0342
Contributo su Rivista - Morgese, M.; Ansari, F.; Domaneschi, M.; Cimellaro, G. P. (2020)
Post-collapse analysis of Morandi’s Polcevera viaduct in Genoa Italy. In: JOURNAL OF CIVIL STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, vol. 10, pp. 69-85. ISSN 2190-5452
Contributo su Rivista - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M.; Bruneau, M. (2011)
Performance-based metamodel for health care facilities. In: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, vol. 40, pp. 1197-1217. ISSN 0098-8847
Contributo su Rivista - Casciati, F; Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Domaneschi, Marco (2008)
Seismic reliability of a cable-stayed bridge retrofitted with hysteretic devices. In: COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES, vol. 86(17-18), pp. 1769-1781. ISSN 0045-7949
Contributo su Rivista - Viti, S; Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M. (2006)
Retrofit of a hospital through strength reduction and enhanced damping. In: SMART STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS, vol. 2, pp. 339-355. ISSN 1738-1584
Contributo su Rivista - Kammouh, Omar; ZAMANI NOORI, Ali; Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Mahin, Stephen A. (2019)
Resilience Assessment of Urban Communities. In: ASCE-ASME JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN ENGINEERING SYSTEMS. PART A, CIVIL ENGINEERING., vol. 5. ISSN 2376-7642
Contributo su Rivista - Renschler, C. S; Frazier, A. E.; Arendt, L. A.; Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M.; ... (2010)
Developing the 'PEOPLES' resilience framework for defining and measuring disaster resilience at the community scale. In: 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2010, Including Papers from the 4th International Tsunami Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2010, pp. 1152-1161. ISBN: 9781617388446
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M. (2011)
Multidimensional Performance Limit States for Hazard Fragility Functions. In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS, vol. 137, pp. 47-60. ISSN 0733-9399
Contributo su Rivista - Renscler, C; Frazier, A; Arendt, L; Cimellaro, GIAN PAOLO; Reinhorn, A. M.; Bruneau, M. (2010)
Developing the "PEOPLES" resilience framework for defining and measuring disaster resilience at the community scale. In: 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (9NCEE), Toronto, Canada, July 25-29th, 2010
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Society and Enterprise
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Finite Element-based methodology to quantify the functionality of urban physical system following earthquake. national Patent
Inventors: Gian Paolo Cimellaro - Finite Element-based methodology to quantify the functionality of urban physical system following earthquake. national Patent
Inventors: Gian Paolo Cimellaro