ANGELO AMOROSI

A.A. 2024-2025
II Semestre
 
Avviso relativo ai corsi di cui sono docente:
 
Slope Stability/Stabilità dei Pendii (Magistrale Civile):
Lezioni secondo l'orario ufficiale. Iscrizione obbligatoria su Classroom al link: codice zwal2r2
 
Landslides and Slope Engineering (Magistrale Ambiente e Territorio on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation):
Lectures according to the official timetable. Required registration on Goggle Classroom by the following code: h7ovhqz 
 
Modulo di Fondazioni (Magistrale GPCSE):
Le lezioni del modulo avranno inizio Lunedì 3 Marzo 2025
Lezioni secondo l'orario ufficiale. Iscrizione obbligatoria su Classroom al link: codice wzhtvfg
 

Personal Details:
Nationality: Italian
Address: Sapienza University of Rome
Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
Via Eudossiana 18 – 00184 - Roma (Italy)
ph. +39 3386344956
e-mail: angelo.amorosi@uniroma1.it
web: https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/AMOROSI-ANGELO_nC1125_IT.aspx

Education:
1992 Laurea in Ingegneria Civile Idraulica, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
(5 years degree in Civil engineering, approximately equivalent to a Master Degree)
1996 Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Geotecnica, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
(Doctoral Degree in Geotechnical Engineering)

Academic carrier:
2020 - Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
2015 - 2020 Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
2014 - Winner of the national competition for the qualification as Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering.
2003 - 2015 Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2003 - 2004 Visiting Academic, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, U.K. (5 months).
1999 - 2003 Lecturer of Geotechnical Engineering, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
1996 - 1999 Post-doc research fellow, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Teaching Activities:

2015 - Stabilità dei Pendii (Slope stability), Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Civile (Master degree in Civil Engineering), Sapienza University of Rome.
Landslides and Slope Engineering, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Ambientale (Master degree in Environmental Engineering), Sapienza University of Rome.
Fondazioni (Foundation Engineering), Laurea Magistrale in Gestione del Progetto e della Costruzione dei Sistemi Edilizi (Master degree in Project and Construction Management of Building Systems), Sapienza University of Rome.
2015 - 2021 Indagini e Modelli Geotecnici (Geotechnical Investigations and Modelling), Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio (3 years degree in Environmental Engineering), Sapienza University of Rome.
2003 - 2015 Fondazioni (Foundation Engineering) and Dinamica delle Terre (Soil Dynamics), Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale in Ingegneria Civile (Master degree in Civil Engineering), Politecnico di Bari.
Geotecnica (Geotechnics), Laurea in Ingegneria Edile-Archtettura (5 years degree in Architectural Engineering), Politecnico di Bari.
2006 - 2010 Meccanica delle Terre (Soil Mechanics), Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale in Ingegneria Civile (Master degree in Civil Engineering), Politecnico di Bari.
1999 - 2010 Geotecnica (Geotechnics), Laurea in Archtettura (5 years degree in Architecture), Università di Roma 3.
1999 - 2003 Stabilità dei Pendii (Slope Stability), Laurea quinquennale in Ingegneria Civile (5 years degree in Civil Engineering), Politecnico di Bari.
Research interests:
• Experimental investigation on the mechanical behaviour of clayey soils with particular reference to: ‘very small strain stiffness’ as observed by dynamic testing technique; evolution of the mechanical response due to: strain induced ‘structure’ (i.e. bonding) degradation process, isotropic or anisotropic stress histories and recent cyclic stress history;
• Constitutive modelling of saturated soils in the frame of multi-surface hardening plasticity; application of thermomechanical principles to the modelling of elastic and elasto-plastic coupled behaviour of soils;
• Constitutive modelling of masonry and its application to the modelling of historical structures;
• Computational plasticity, with particular reference to implicit/explicit integration schemes for complex constitutive models;
• Finite Element analyses of geotechnical boundary value problems: excavation and tunnelling in clayey soils, interaction between underground excavations and surface masonry structures, seismic site effects, seismic behaviour of earth dams, seismic behaviour of tunnels, seismic behaviour of lifelines.
• Nuclear waste disposal-related geotechnical problems: detailed geotechnical site characterisation; seismic interaction between foundation soils, shallow deposits and soil covers; long term stability of shallow covers interacting with surrounding environment.

Invited seminars, Keynote, Panel presentations:
1995 ‘The Mechanical Behaviour of Vallericca Clay’, City University of London, U.K.
1996 ‘The Mechanical Behaviour of a Stiff Natural Clay’, Institut de Mechanique de Grenoble (3S), France.
1998 ‘Some remarks on the mechanical behaviour of a stiff natural clay’, Oxford University Civil Engineering Colloquia, U.K.
1999 ‘A constitutive model for structured soils’, Technical University of Turin, Italy.
‘A thermomechanical approach to the small strain stiffness of soils’, Technical University of Turin, Italy.
2001 ‘Analysis of a homogeneous earth dam subjected to seismic actions’, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
2002 ‘The mechanical behaviour of structured clays: from experimental observations to constitutive modelling’, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
‘Small strain stiffness of soils: a hyperelastic approach’, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
2004 ‘A hyperelastic approach to the small strain stiffness of soils’, Oxford University Civil Engineering Colloquia, U.K.
‘Experimental observations and constitutive modelling of structured clays’, University of Birmingham, U.K.
‘Experimental observations and constitutive modelling of structured clays’, Imperial College of Science and Medicine, London, U.K.
2005 ‘From constitutive modelling to FE analyses in geotechnical engineering’, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
2008 ‘Static and dynamic behaviour of clayey soils: from experiments to numerical simulations ’, University of Roma 3, Italy.
2009 ‘Delayed failure of quarry slopes in a stiff clay deposit: the case of the Lucera landslide’, ETH Zurich, Geomechanics Colloquia.
2011 ‘Numerical analyses of HSSR: some remarks on the calibration of parameters and internal variables’, Invited Panel, XV European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Athens, Greece.
2012 ‘Fully Coupled Dynamic Analysis of an Earth Dam’, Purdue University, U.S.
‘The seismic behaviour of tunnels: a numerical approach ’,Texas A&M University, U.S.
‘Elasticity in soil mechanics: from experimental observations to mathematical modelling’, Cornell University, U.S.
2014 ‘From single element experiments to the numerical analysis of BVPs: a long way path through modern geomechanics’, Bochum Ruhr University, Germany.
2015 ‘Il comportamento meccanico dei terreni argillosi: dalla sperimentazione in laboratorio all’analisi di problemi al finito’, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2016 ‘Modelling tunnelling-induced deformation of surface structures’, 3xV – International Workshop in Naples, Italy.
2017 ‘Prospettive nell’analisi del comportamento delle dighe di terra’, (Perspectives in the analysis of earth dams) Invited General Lecture – XXVI Italian Geotechnical Conference.
2018 ‘Elastic anisotropy and elastoplastic coupling of soils: from micro evidences to constitutive modelling at the macroscale’, Invited Lecture – ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Winter School 2018.
2019 ‘The contribution of constitutive modelling to sustainable geotechnical engineering: examples and open issues’, Invited Keynote Lecture – VII CNRIG, National Conference of the Academics working in Geotechnical Engineering.
‘Ut tensio sic vis? An experimental and theoretical investigation into the elastic behaviour of soils’, ETH Zurich, IGT-Kolloquium.
2020 ‘The elastic behaviour of granular materials: complex features and their constitutive modelling at the macroscale’, Invited Keynote Lecture – IAS Workshop on Emerging Scales in Granular Media, Honk Kong University of Science and Technology.
2022 ‘An introduction to constitutive modelling of clays based on thermodynamics: from MCC to Saniclay-T and beyond’, Invited Lecture – Imperial College of Science and Medicine, London, U.K.
2023 ‘Micro-inspired constitutive modelling of clays’, Theme Lecture – Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering Conference 2023, Imperial College of Science and Medicine, London, U.K.
‘Micro-inspired constitutive modelling of clays based on thermodynamics’, Invited Seminar within the Civil Engineering Seminar Series – University of Oxford, U.K.
2024 ‘Predicting tunnelling-induced damage in urban areas: numerical approaches to a challenging task’, Keynote Lecture - 7th International Symposium on tunnels and shafts in soils and rocks, Mexico City, MX.
‘The Mechanics of Clays: a Micro-Inspired Perspective’, The Osterberg Lecture – Northwestern University, Evanstone (IL), U.S.
2025 ‘The mechanical behaviour of clays: a micro-inspired perspective’, Invited Lecture - Symposium on Advances in Geomechanics and Geosystems Engineering, Athens GR.

Supervision of PhD students:
2001 - 2004 Candidate: Gaetano Elia. Thesis title: “Analisi FEM di problemi al contorno in condizioni statiche dinamiche con un modello costitutivo avanzato” (FE analyses of static and dynamic boundary value problems adopting an advanced constitutive model).
2002 - 2005 Candidate: Vincenzo Germano. Thesis title: “Integrazione implicita di un modello costitutivo per terreni naturali” (Implicit integration of a constitutive model for natural soils).
2003 - 2006 Candidate: Giuseppina Mitaritonna. Thesis title: “An experimental investigation on the very small strain stiffness anisotropy of fine grained soil”.
2009 - 2012 Candidate: Giovanni Postiglione. Thesis title: “The use of a constitutive model for structured soils to the solution of static boundary value problems”.
2012 - 2015 Candidate: Annamaria Di Lernia. Thesis title: “Three dimensional FE analyses of earthquake engineering boundary value problems ”.
2012 - 2015 Candidate: Valentina Fargnoli. Thesis title: “Soil-structure interaction during tunnelling in urban area: observations and 3D numerical modelling”. (Co-supervisor)
2014 - 2017 Candidate: Gaetano Falcone. Thesis title: “The seismic microzoning via advanced finite elements approaches”.
2015 - 2018 Candidate: Fabio Rollo. Thesis title: “A thermomechanical approach to elastic anisotropy of soils”.
2020 – 2024 Candidate: Laura Perrotta. Thesis title: “Microstructural investigation of the mechanical behaviour of Lightweight Cemented Soils”. (Co-supervisor)
2022 - 2025 Candidate: Giada Caldarini. Thesis title: “The transversal seismic behaviour of tunnels in saturated coarse-grained soils”. (Co-supervisor)
2023 - 2026 Candidate: Giacomo di Santo. Thesis title: “Tunnelling-induced damage on masonry structures: a constitutive and numerical approach”.

Research Funding:
2005 - 2007 Progetto di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN), finanziato dal MIUR. Responsabile U.O. Politecnico di Bari, titolo: “Analisi numerica del comportamento di dighe in terra soggette ad azioni sismiche” Local-P.I. (39500 euro) (National Research Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University. Title: Numerical analyses of earth dams subjected to seismic actions)
2005 - 2008 Progetto di Ricerca Rete dei Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica (ReLUIS), finanziato dal Dipartimento per la Protezione Civile. Responsabile U.O. Politecnico di Bari, Linea 6, Stabilità dei Pendii in zona sismica Local-P.I. (36329 euro). (Research Project of the Network of University Departments of Seismic Engineering, funded by the National Civil Protection Department. Theme: Slope stability in seismic areas)
2008 – 2010 Progetto di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN), finanziato dal MIUR, titolo: “Comportamento sismico di pendii, scavi e gallerie” Local-P.I. (20000 euro) (National Research Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University. Title: Seismic behaviour of slopes, excavations and tunnels)
2009 - 2012 Progetto di Ricerca Rete dei Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica (ReLUIS II), finanziato dal Dipartimento per la Protezione Civile. Responsabile U.O. Politecnico di Bari, Comportamento longitudinale di strutture tubolari interrate in zona sismica Local-P.I. (25000 euro). (Research Project of the Network of University Departments of Seismic Engineering, funded by the National Civil Protection Department. Theme: Longitudinal seismic response of tunnels in seismic areas).
2012 - 2014 Competitive Research Project funded by the SOGIN SpA (Italian public Agency for the radioactive waste disposal programme)/ P.I. of the Specific research programme on shallow radioactive deposits for south Italy (195000 euro).
2014 - 2015 Competitive Research Project funded by the SOGIN SpA (Italian public Agency for the radioactive waste disposal programme)/ P.I. of the Detailed research programme on shallow radioactive deposits for south Italy (150000 euro).
2014 - 2016 Progetto di Ricerca Rete dei Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica (ReLUIS II), finanziato dal Dipartimento per la Protezione Civile. Responsabile U.O. Politecnico di Bari, “Gallerie in area urbana” Local-P.I. (25000 euro). (Research Project of the Network of University Departments of Seismic Engineering, funded by the National Civil Protection Department. Theme: Tunnels in Seismic urban areas).
2016-2017 Progetto di Ricerca Rete dei Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica (ReLUIS III), finanziato dal Dipartimento per la Protezione Civile. Responsabile U.O. Sapienza Roma, “Comportamento sismico delle gallerie” Local-P.I. (7900 euro). (Research Project of the Network of University Departments of Seismic Engineering, funded by the National Civil Protection Department. Theme: Seismic behaviour of tunnels).
2016 Finanziamento Professori Visitatori Sapienza. Winner of the competition for the special Sapienza Grant to invite a foreigner Professor (Yannis Dafalias) for 3 months (5000 euro).
2018 Progetto di Ricerca di Medie Dimensioni, finanziato da Sapienza Università di Roma, P.I. Titolo: “Soil anisotropy: constitutive modelling and potential impact on civil engineering structures” P.I. (15000 euro). (Research Project funded by Sapienza University. Theme: Constitutive modelling of soil anisotropy).
2021 – 2023 Progetto di Ricerca POR FESR, finanziato dalla Regione Lazio. Responsabile U.O. Sapienza Roma, “STAND-STima e ANalisi del Danneggiamento di edifici storici indotto da opere in sotterraneo” Co-P.I. (70000 euro). (Research Project funded by the Lazio regional Research Department. Theme: Underground excavation-induced damage to surface historical masonry structures).
2023 Progetto di Ricerca Return-Vertical Spoke 2, finanziato da Sapienza Università di Roma su fondi PNRR (Comunità Europea), Titolo: “Ground instabilities: Detection, Modelling & Monitoring, Scenarios” Co-P.I. (353131 euro). (Research Project funded by Sapienza University on European Community Funding PNRR. Theme: Slope Stability).
Progetto PRIN 2022, Titolo: “Damage Analysis and Monitoring of Ancient structures interacting with Geotechnical Excavations (DAMAGE)” P.I. (197500 euro). (National Research Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University).
Finanziamento Professori Visitatori Sapienza. Winner of the competition for the special Sapienza Grant to invite a foreigner Professor (Giuseppe Buscarnera) for 1 month (5000 euro).

Others:
2000 - 2015 Member of the Board of the PhD school in Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Bari.
2003 - 2009 Elected Member of the Board of the Associazione Geotecnica Italiana (Italian Geotechnical Society).
2006 Member of the Organising Committee of the V Convegno Nazionale dei Ricercatori di Ingegneria Geotecnica (5th National Conference of the Academics involved in Geotechnical Engineering), Bari.
2009 Organiser (with J.T. Jenkins and L. Laragione) of the International Workshop “Deformation and Failure of Geomaterials”, co-funded by National Science Foundation (U.S.) and Apulia Region.
2009 - Member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Geotechnical Journal.
2010 - 2013 Member of the Editorial Board of Geotéchnique (Institution of Civil Engineers, London, U.K.).
2010 - Member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Technical CommetteeTC210 “Behaviour of Dams”.
2012 - 2014 Elected Member of the Board of the Gruppo Nazionale di Coordinamento degli Studi di Ingegneria Geotecnica (National Group of Academics involved in Geotechnical Engineering).
2012 - Honorary Editor of the special issue of the Italian Geotechnical Journal dedicated to the Geotechnical aspects of the 6.IV.2009 Abruzzo earthquake.
2016 - Member of the Board of the PhD school in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
2018 Member of the Scientific Committee of the China – Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Vienna 13-16 August 2018.
2018 -2019 Member of the Scientific Committee of the 7th ICEGE 2019 - International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering.
2019 Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2019-EMI (Engineering Mechanics Institute) Conference– California Institute of Technology.
2019 Co-organiser of the Mini-Symposium “Theoretical, Numerical and Physical Modelling in Geomechanics” - AIMETA 2019 (Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics).
2019 - Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Geotechnica (Springer Berlin Heidelberg).
2021-2023 Member of the National Committee for the Scientific Evaluation of candidates eligibility to I and II level professorship (ASN).
2022-2025 Coordinator of the Research Commission for the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.
2023 Organiser (with G. Viggiani and E. Gerolymatou) of the ALERT Workshop “Anisotropy in Geomaterials: Experiments and Modelling”, Aussois, FR.
2024 - Organiser (with F. Rollo and D. Gaudio) of the (Geotechnical) Lunch Seminars, held approximately twice a month at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.
2024-2025 Coordinator of the Sapienza University Research Commission for the entire Engineering and Architecture area.
2024-2026 Nominated Member of the Group of Experts for the Evaluation (GEV) of Research Quality (exercise 2020-24) by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR).
2025 Awarded by the Italian Geotechnical Society for the best paper published in the Italian Geotechnical Journal in the period 2022-2024.
2000 - Referee for the following International Journals: Geotéchnique, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Acta Geotechnica, Italian Geotechnical Journal, International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Computers and Geotechnics, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Computers and Structures, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Meccanica, Engineering Structures, Geomechanics & Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal of Plasticity, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Archive of Applied Mechanics.
Reviewer of research proposals for: Technology Foundation STW (the Netherlands); The Leverhulme Trust (UK); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK); The Israel Science Foundation (IL); European Science Foundation (FR).
External examiner of PhD candidates: G. Seidalinov (University of British Columbia); E. Alaei (University of Sydney); Luc Simonin (University of Oxford); M. Morigi (Tor Vergata University of Rome); F. Aloi, A. Chiaradonna, V. Oliviero, A. Reder (University of Naples Federico II).

Professional experience:
1992 - Chartered Engineer

Bibliometric indices April 2026 (source Scopus):
Documents:90; hindex = 26; Total Number of citations = 2910
For a list of all my publications, please refer to the Scopus database:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006701088