Curriculum

Matteo Zerbin achieved a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2010 and a master's degree in Civil Engineering in 2013 at the University of Ferrara. He achieved the Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering in 2017 at the University of Ferrara with the title of "Doctor Europaeus". He spent one year of his PhD (2015) in the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland as a Visiting PhD Student. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2017 at the University of Ferrara. Since 2018 he has been co-supervisor of a master's thesis in Civil Engineering and since 2019 he has been Expert on "Earthquake Engineering" (SSD ICAR/09) of the Department of Engineering at the University of Ferrara (ENDIF -UNIFE). Since 2023 he has been Assistant Professor in Geotechnics (SSD ICAR/07) carrying out teaching activities in the "Geotechnics" course of the Master's Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Ferrara. Since 2014 he has been a Professional Engineer; since 2017 he has been a member of WISEcivil, an incubator of ideas for structural engineering; since 2017 he has been carrying out consultancy activities with the Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (CFR) of Ferrara in the field of existing buildings, with particular reference to static and seismic vulnerability assessments of buildings, numerical modelling and validation of seismic rehabilitation and structural retrofit projects; since 2021 he has been a speaker in training courses for professional associations; since 2020 he has been collaborating on technical consultancy for Technical Experts of the Court.

His scientific activity concerns seismic engineering, structural rehabilitation of existing buildings and soil-structure interaction with liquefaction. During his career, he has worked on the following research topics: linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures subject to seismic actions; seismic vulnerability of existing and historic structures; innovative analytical methods for the design wall, frame and dual system RC structures; seismic retrofit with traditional and innovative techniques; rehabilitation of reinforced concrete, steel and masonry buildings with composite materials (FRP, FRCM); search for the optimal structural solution for sustainable seismic retrofit; project of isolated and damped structures using the Direct Displacement-Based Design; analytical, numerical and experimental research activity on prototypes of innovative friction seismic dampers in the Metallurgy Laboratory and in the Structural Integrity Laboratory of the Engineering Department at the University of Ferrara and in the Heavy And Light Laboratory of the University of Bristol (UK) ; interpretation of small-scale physical modelling in a geotechnical centrifuge at the Experimental Institute for Geotechnical Models (ISMGEO) in Seriate (BG), in particular susceptibility to soil liquefaction and dynamic soil-structure interaction. He is patent holder for industrial invention: “Dissipative Connection Device”, Patent n.102020000013738 filed on 09/06/2020 at UIBM (IT). He has co-supervised one doctoral thesis in Engineering Sciences and more than 17 master's theses in Civil Engineering.

Since 2017 he has been working as a Professional Engineer designing structural projects for both new and existing private and public buildings, in particular projects aimed at reducing the seismic vulnerability of RC and precast RC, steel and masonry buildings. He gained main expertise in traditional and innovative techniques for designing retrofit solutions for RC structures, steel, masonry, composite materials and anti-seismic devices, advanced use of FEM structural modelling (static and dynamic linear and nonlinear analysis), and Matlab programming.

For main publications and further information see the following sites:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matteo_Zerbin

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-1854

https://it.linkedin.com/in/matteozerbin