CURRICULUM VITAE of Mauro SASSU (March 2026)

Educational and Academic Qualifications.

• Degree with honors in Civil Engineering, majoring in Structures, University of Pisa, 1984, with a published thesis (steel railway bridge with portal design – Steel Rev. Dec. 1985).

• PhD in Structural Engineering, University of Florence, 1989.

• CNR scholarship holder at CNUCE Pisa 1989-1990.

• Foresio scholarship holder at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pisa 1990-1991.

• Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Structural Engineering, University of Pisa, from 1992 to 2001.

• Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Structural Engineering, then the Department of Civil Engineering, then the Department of Energy, Systems, Land and Construction Engineering (DESTEC), University of Pisa, from September 2001 to September 2016.

• Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Cagliari, from October 201 to November 2019.

• Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Cagliari, from December 2019 to present.

Teaching at the University of Pisa
• Assistant courses in Structural Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering) 1992-1998
• Assistant courses in Experimentation, Control, and Testing of Structures (Civil Engineering) 1992-2000
• Lecturer in Structural Theory (Diploma in Mechanical Engineering – Marble Section) 1999-2001
• Lecturer in the university courses in:
Structural Engineering (V.O.) from 2001 to 2004
Diagnostics and Consolidation from 2008 to 2010
Civil Construction Technologies (Building Engineering and Civil Construction – 6 credits) from 2004 to 2015/16
Construction Techniques 2 (Building Engineering and Civil Construction – 9 credits) from 2004 to 2015/16
Solid Mechanics (Energy Engineering – 6 credits) from 2013 to 2015/16
Teaching at the University of Cagliari
Structural Design - Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
Structural Diagnosis and Consolidation of Buildings - Master's Degree in Civil Engineering
Structural Design - Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering
Supervisor of 290 master's theses in Civil, Building, and Civil Construction Engineering.
Supervisor of numerous theses abroad (Munich, Berlin, Aachen, Urbana-Champaign, Guimaraes, Bath, Tokyo, Miami)
Supervisor or reviewer of doctoral theses in Civil and Structural Engineering at the Universities of Pisa, Florence, Genoa, Polytechnic University of Milan, Rome La Sapienza, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), University of Minho in Guimaraes (Portugal), RWTH Aachen (Germany).

Research Activities.
The main research activities, involving 260 publications, concern the following topics:
1. masonry construction,
2. earthquake engineering,
3. fire resistance of structures,
4. forensic engineering,
5. disaster resilience of buildings and infrastructure.
Institutional academic activity at the University of Pisa
Member of the Academic Senate from 2000 to 2003 (Engineering faculty representative)
Pro-Rector for Buildings October 2003 – October 2006
Rector's Delegate for Medical Buildings, Sports Facilities, and the Calci Museum November 2006 – October 2010
Member of the University Statute Commission 2007 – 2008
Responsible for the Structures Section of the Department of Civil Engineering February 2009 – October 2010
Rector's Delegate for Real Estate December 2010 – October 2012
Vice-Director of DESTEC (Department of Energy, Systems, Land, and Construction Engineering) November 2012 – September 2016
Vice-Director of the Doctorate in Sciences and Techniques of Civil Engineering, from 2009 to September 2016.
Institutional academic activity at the University of Cagliari
Director of the construction materials testing laboratory since November 2017
Institutional scientific activity
• Member of the International Masonry Society, Stoke-on-Trent (UK), from 1995 to 2005.
• Co-Editor of the World Housing Encyclopedia, Oakland (U.S.A.), 2002-2005.
• Italian Delegate to the European Commission TC250/SC6 – Eurocode 1996 (European Standards for Masonry Construction), from 2002 to 2012
• Member of the Italian Commission SC6 Eurocode 1996 from 2002 to present.
• Member of the UNI Joint Commission for Fire Resistance of Buildings, from 2001 to present.
• Italian Delegate to the European Commission TC127/WG1 – European Standards for Fire Resistance of Buildings, from 2004 to present.
• Member of the Structural Engineering Commission at the Superior Council of Public Works from 2002 to 2014.
• Scientific Manager of the Research Units of the RELUIS projects – Civil Protection Department from 2005 to 2008, from 2009 to 2013, from 2013 to present – ​​masonry construction sector.
• Scientific Committee of IFCRASC (Forensic Engineering, Collapses, Structural Reliability and Consolidation), chaired by Nicola Augenti.
• Editorial Board of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Taylor & Francis – USA), Editor-in-Chief Paolo Gardoni.
• Scientific Committee of the Engineers' Bulletin (Florence), president Paolo Spinelli.

Contracts - Agreements - Research Project Coordination
The list of contracts and territorial agreements for the University of Pisa from 2010 to 2016, under the scientific responsibility of the undersigned, primarily in the seismic field, is as follows:
C1. Tuscany Region, 2010 – Seismic monitoring of public hospitals in the provinces of Pisa (ASL5-AOUP), Livorno (ASL6), Lucca (ASL2 – ASL12), and Massa Carrara (ASL1).
C2. Municipality of Livorno, 2010-2011 – Restoration of the Scoglio della Regina building
C3. Municipality of Livorno 2010-2011 – Restoration of the Dogana d’Acqua building
C4. Municipality of San Pio delle Camere (Abruzzo) 2012 – Post-earthquake Reconstruction Plan for the Municipality of San Pio delle Camere (AQ)
C5. Tuscany Region 2010-2011 – 41 training internships for Civil and Building Engineering and Building-Architecture undergraduates in Abruzzo to assess damage caused by the April 6, 2009 earthquake
C6. AOUP (Pisa University Hospital) 2012-2013 – Support for earthquake-resistant structural designs on hospital buildings.
C7. Tuscany Region, 2012 – Seismic assessment of strategic regional public buildings
C8. Municipality of Calcinaia, 2010 – Seismic monitoring of municipal schools
C9. Local Health Authority 5 Pisa, 2011-2013 – Seismic assessments for Volterra Hospital
C10. Tuscany Region, 2011 – Research and experimental studies on masonry buildings after the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
C11. Municipality of Pistoia, 2012 – Temporary Structural Works for City Walls
C12. INAIL Florence, 2012 – Seismic Monitoring of Pisa Office and Buildings in the Tuscany Region
C13. CASALP Livorno, 2012 (Social Housing Institute) – Seismic Monitoring of Public Housing Buildings
C14. Province of La Spezia, 2012 – Seismic Monitoring of the Prefecture and the Province of La Spezia
C15. Office of Public Works for Tuscany and Umbria, 2012 – Structural Analysis of the Large Lighthouse in the Port of Livorno
C16. Province of Lucca, 2013 – Structural Analysis and Planning Methods for School Buildings
C17. PISAMO – Municipality of Pisa – Feasibility Study of a New Cable-Stayed Cycle/Pedestrian Footbridge over the Arno River, Riglione, 2015.

The list of research projects at the University of Cagliari is as follows:
L7-FSC 2017 (Autonomous Region of Sardinia) RASSR50082 STRUCTURAL AND ENERGY OPTIMIZATION OF BUILDINGS IN URBAN CONTEXTS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH €90,000.00 - 2018-2021
PERLABLOC Project - Sardegna Ricerche - Bioeconomy Call PORFSR 2014-2020 - Building blocks made from Sardinian perlite agglomerate with high energy performance and low environmental impact. €205,679.50 - 2021-2023
PRIN 2022 PNRR Project – Cagliari UR – Rocking-based strategies for resilience of reinforced concrete structures: conception, structural design, non-structural components, efficiency and sustainability (Rock Resilience) € €75,000.00 – 2023-2026
PRIN 2020 Project - Cagliari Research Unit - Smart Monitoring for Safety of Existing Structures and Infrastructures (S-MoSES) €154,640.00 - 2021-2024
RELUIS DPS - Police Headquarters - Cagliari Research Unit - Line 1 – Support for the classification of buildings used by the State Police and the planning of seismic safety assessments and interventions - €20,000.00 - 2021-2022
RELUIS (Network of University Laboratories of Seismic Engineering – Civil Protection Department) 2005-2008 Masonry – Pisa Research Unit
RELUIS 2009-2012 Masonry – Pisa Research Unit
RELUIS 2013-2016 Masonry – Pisa Research Unit
P.R.A. 2015-2016 (University Research Projects) Territorial Emergencies: Protection of Urban Areas and Infrastructure from Extreme Climate Events
P.R.I.N. 2015 (Research Projects of National Interest) Pisa Research Unit line coordinator "Mitigating the Impacts of Natural Hazards on Cultural Heritage Sites, Structures, and Artefacts (MICHe)" National Coordinator Mario de Stefano, University of Florence
Internship, tutoring, and outreach activities.
1. Training internships for 41 undergraduates from the University of Pisa and the post-earthquake reconstruction plan for the Municipality of San Pio delle Camere (AQ) since 2012, with a staff of doctoral students and scholarship holders.
2. Volunteer work for seismic assessments of numerous public, private, and protected buildings affected by the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo (within the ReLUIS and MiBACT framework) and in Emilia Romagna (within the ReLUIS and MiBACT framework), completing AeDES and MiBACT forms with a team of doctoral students and scholarship holders.
3. Training internships for 40 undergraduate or doctoral students at UNESCO archaeological sites in the Sultanate of Oman (12 missions from 2005 to 2012), in agreement with the Office of the Sultan's Delegate for Cultural Affairs.

4. Internship for undergraduates and one doctoral student at the archaeological site in the Petra area – Shawbak Castle, Jordan, in 2011-2012 – Medieval Petra, Shawbak Project – University of Florence and Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
5. Lecture series in numerous refresher courses for professional engineers and architects and civil engineering officials of Tuscany and Sardinia for OPCM 3274/2003 and NTC 2008 - NTC 2018 technical standards from 2003 to present.
Review and refereeing activities.
Reviewer of international journals in the civil and structural engineering sector:
– Earthquake Spectra (ISSN: 8755-2930)
– Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ISSN: 1225-4568)
– Materials and Structures (ISSN: 1359-5997)
– Journal of Performances of Constructed Facilities (ISSN: 0887-3828)
– Journal of Forensic Engineering (ISSN: 1744-9944)
– Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309)
– Advanced Materials Research (ISSN 1662-8985)
– World Housing Encyclopedia (website at www.eeri.org)
– Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures (ISSN 2378-9697)
– Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (ISSN: 1573-1456)
– International Journal of Architectural Heritage (ISSN: 1558-3066)
Main current international relationships:
• IUC Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA (Prof. Paolo Gardoni)
• RWTH Aachen, Germany (Prof. Christoph Butenweg)
• TUM Munich, Germany (Eng. Francesca Taddei)
• University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal (Prof. Paulo B. Lourenço, Prof. Daniel Oliveira)
• University of Bath, United Kingdom (Prof. Wen-Shao Chang)
• University of Tokyo, Japan (Prof. Mikio Koshihara)
• University of Miami, Florida, USA (Prof. Antonio Nanni)
• CERN, Geneva (Eng. Enrico Cennini, Eng. Saverio La Mendola)