Giovanni Solari Wind Engineering (GS-WinDyn) Research Group

The Giovanni Solari - Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics (GS-WinDyn) Research Group, named after his founder Prof. Giovanni Solari, aims at investigating the interactions between wind and structures at the academic, educational and technical level, with a homogeneous and interdisciplinary approach. Thanks to its interdisciplinary composition, this group has the unique property to cover almost all the sectors of wind science and engineering – namely atmospheric physics, meteorology, climatology and geophysics, aerodynamics and aeroelasticity, structural and architectural engineering, environmental sciences and wind energy – with special expertise in structural dynamics. It also has an ideal position to address research through a wide range of tools: it has longstanding experience in analytical and physical models, a library of commercial and self-developed numerical programs including CFD codes, a laboratory equipped to carry out in situ anemometric measurements, dynamic tests on structural models, full-scale experiments on real structures, a closed-circuit wind tunnel. It manages an unprecedented and unique wind monitoring network in the port areas of Genova, Savona, La Spezia, Livorno and Bastia: it includes nearly 40 ultra-sonic anemometers and 4 LiDARs. - Members - Professors - Massimiliano Burlando (linkedin.com/in/massimilianoburlando/) - Luisa Pagnini - Giuseppe Piccardo (linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-piccardo-63a10545/) - Maria Pia Repetto - Federica Tubino (linkedin.com/in/federica-tubino-ba954b251/) Researchers - Federico Canepa (linkedin.com/in/federico-canepa/) - Andrea Orlando PostDocs - Mekdes Tadesse Mengistu (linkedin.com/in/mekdes-tadesse-mengistu-253ab27a/) - Luca Roncallo (linkedin.com/in/luca-roncallo-05aa73135/) - Andi Xhelaj (linkedin.com/in/andi-xhelaj-8064) - Abdel Galil Youssef - Josip Žužul (linkedin.com/in/jzuzul) PhD students - Camila Aldereguìa Sanchez - Hao-Yu Bịn (linkedin.com/in/hao-yu-bin-541099141/)