prof. Antonina Pirrotta
University of Palermo
Antonina Pirrotta is a Full Professor in Structural Mechanics at the University of Palermo, Italy.
She, graduated in Civil Engineering from Palermo University in 1987. Firstly for 6 years she worked as freelance structural engineer, then has done PhD in Structural Engineering in 1996 and as Post-doctoral studies in 1998. In 2000, she became a Researcher, in 2001 Associate Professor and in 2016 Full Professor in Engineering department at the University of Palermo, Italy.
-HEAD of PhD School of University of Palermo from 2023.
-HEAD of CIDIS from 2021.
-Board of Governors of ASCE (EMI) 2021-2024 (exceptionally renewed every year).
Her achievements resulted in many scientific recognitions and awards, which include the appointment as Chair of IDEA Innovative Dynamics Experiments Association (2022), several fellowships, memberships on scientific committees of various key international conferences, a membership on the Advisory Board of the MSCA COFUND Doctoral Programme at the University of Innsbruck, and many invitations as plenary speaker at several international conferences.
Prof. Pirrotta has organized and co-organized an exceptionally large number of international conferences, the last EMI2023International Conference organized at University of Palermo and for what she received the appreciation award, minisymposia, and summer schools in Italy and all over the world. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), (first professor with Italian affiliation) and of Meccanica, which are two absolute top journals in the field. Additionally, she is a member of the Editorial Board of various international scientific journals. She was a Visiting Professor at many universities all over the world such as Tongji University, Columbia University, Liverpool University, TU Wien, etc. With over 180 published papers, she is a leading researcher in the field of structural mechanics and collaborates with renowned institutions worldwide.
Prof. Antonina Pirrotta ‘s contributions and leadership have made her a notable figure in Structural Mechanics and a role model for women in science.
Professor Piotr Fedeliński
Silesian University of Technology
Professor Piotr Fedeliński, Eng., Ph.D., D.Sc. graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology, Poland in 1981. He obtained his Ph. D.
degree in 1991 and the D. Sc. degree in 2000. In 2019, he was given the title of professor of
technical sciences.
He is employed as a full professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Silesian
University of Technology. He was Vice-Dean for Science during the 2008–2012 term, and from
2012 to 2016, Vice-Dean for Science and Industry Cooperation. He was the head of the Section
of Computational Mechanics and Applied Computer Science. He is the author or co-author of
approximately 170 publications, including four monographs. He was the leader of five research
projects funded by the Committee for Scientific Research and the National Science Centre,
Poland. He was the supervisor of four distinguished Ph. D. theses. He participated in three long-
term foreign projects: at Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1991; at the University of
Portsmouth, United Kingdom, from 1992 to 1995; and at the University of Campinas, Brazil,
in 1999. He has been a member of the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of
Sciences since 2020, a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
since 1995, and a member of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics since 1997.
Professor Piotr Fedeliński carries out scientific research in the fields of computational
mechanics, the dynamics of deformable structures, fracture mechanics, micromechanics,
sensitivity analysis, and structural optimization. His main area of research is the development
and application of the boundary element method (BEM) in solid mechanics. Some of his
original achievements include the optimization of shapes of structural elements with respect to
criteria dependent on natural frequencies, a comparison of the effectiveness of various
formulations of the method in the analysis of dynamically loaded bodies with cracks, modeling
of rapid crack propagation, homogenization of cracked materials and composites, and analysis
and optimization of dynamically loaded composites.
Title of plenary lecture: Boundary element method in dynamics of deformable solids.
Prof. Przemysław Litewka
Poznan University of Technology
He was born in Poznań. After graduating in 1992, he began working at the Poznań University of Technology. In 1998, he defended his doctoral dissertation and obtained his habilitation in 2008.
In 2013, he was appointed professor at the Poznań University of Technology. In 2021, he was awarded the title of professor of engineering and technical sciences.
From 1999 to 2001, he was a Humboldt Stiftung scholar at the University of Hannover.
His research specializations include broadly defined structural mechanics, in particular: contact mechanics, the dynamics of structures with viscoelastic materials, and the application of numerical methods to the mechanics of rod systems and surface girders. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Polish Society for Computational Mechanics.
