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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 Davide Lo Presti

Associate Professor
Department of Engineering

Head of SMARTIlab UNIPA, academic and International Research Project Coordinator investigating new solutions for the development of Sustainable Multifunctional Automated and Resilient transport infrastructures. 

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.

Usman Ghani

PhD Student
Department of Engineering

MSc in Civil Engineering from Pakistan, with six years of post graduate acadamic experience. Currently enrolled as a PhD student at SMARTIlab UNIPA focusing on LIVE LABS development for the automation of Road and airport pavements

MSc Students

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Mattia Crisafi

Department of Engineering

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Salvatore Conigliaro

Department of Engineering

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Salvatore Bologna

Department of Engineering

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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. 

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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. 

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Davide Ligammari

Department of Engineering