Angelo Scrofani

Angelo Scrofani is currently a student in the Ph.D. program in Mathematics and Modeling, University of L’Aquila. He is developing, under the supervision of Prof. Luca Placidi, a research project that intends to evaluate, through variational models, aging phenomena in dams, caused by the diffusion, inside them, of a sinking fluid.

In 2020, Angelo obtained his master’s degree in Structural and Environmental Civil Engineering, scoring 110/110, at the University of Catania, writing his thesis “Nonlinear static analysis of slender curved beam” under the supervision of Professors Massimo Cuomo and Leopoldo Greco, from which he published two scientific papers: “An non-linear symmetric implicit G1-conforming Bézier Finite Element formulation for the analysis of Kirchhoff beam assemblies” and “An updated Lagrangian Bézier finite element formulation for the analysis of slender beams”. During his Ph.D., Angelo spent a research period in the United States at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kansas, supervised by Prof. Anil Misra, during which he published the article “Fluid diffusion related aging effect in a concrete dam modeled as Timoshenko beam”. Currently, Angelo is working on scientific papers that are being finalized and published, which have already been presented during conferences.

His greatest passions are rugby, cooking and music.