SMARTIlab Team
The SMARTIlab group has a multidisciplinary background including civil, mechanical, chemical and electrical engineers. The current team includes one professor, one research fellows and three PhD students working on a variety of research projects with a number of industrial partners.
Dr Gaspare Giancontieri
Research Fellow
Department of Engineering
PhD in Civil Engineering at the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC). Dr Giancontieri is a research fellow at SMARTIlab UNIPA, involved in national and international research projects, his topic focus on emerging asphalt materials and technologies.
Gabriella Buttitta
PhD Student
Department of Engineering
Enrolled as PhD Student at University of Palermo. Miss Buttitta research focuses on the evaluation of Road Pavements Sustainability on the basis of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) techniques and implementing sustainability assessment in BIM.
MSc Students
Mattia Crisafi
Department of Engineering
Salvatore Conigliaro
Department of Engineering
Salvatore Bologna
Department of Engineering
Domenico Chirco
Department of Engineering
Alumni
Dr Chiara Mignini
Research Fellow
Department of Engineering
MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering at Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona (Italy). Currently research fellow at SMARTIlab UNIPA, Dr Mignini expertise focuses on pavement materials, mainly focuessed on cold asphalt technologies.
Dr Patricia Osmari
Research Fellow
Department of Engineering
MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Dr. Patrícia is currently a research fellow at SMARTIlab UNIPA working in the REcircularPAV project. Her research background is on pavement materials focusing on multiscale and sustainable material investigations
Silvia Milazzo
PhD Student
Department of Engineering
MSc in Civil Engineering, focussed on road and transport infrastructure and enrolled as a PhD student in civil engineering. Miss Milazzo is working on the performance related characterisation of rubberised asphalt mixtures with the support of SMACOM, leader company in Sicily in the collection, recovery and treatment of end-of-life tires.
Davide Ligammari
Department of Engineering