Luigi La Ragione

Luigi La Ragione si e' laureato in Ingegneria Civile al Politecnico di Bari e ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca sulla micro-meccanica dei materiali granulari presso l'Universita' di Firenze. E' stato post-dottorato alla Cornell University (USA), Kingston University (UK), Schlumberger Doll Research (USA). E' stato inoltre Visiting Professor alla Cornell University e Visiting Scientist presso il Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Santa Barbara, CA, (USA), Max-Planck Institute, Dresden (Germania), Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, (UK). E' attualmente Professore Associato al Politecnico di Bari nel settore ICAR 08 "Scienza delle Costruzioni".

CEAR-06/A

PhD, Mechanics, “Micromechanical behavior of random aggregate of particles” Università di Firenze, Italy, March 2000

II. Academic Experience

2017: National Habilitation as Full Professor

2002-2015: Assistant Professor

2015- present: Associate Professor

III. Visiting Positions

July 2018 – August 2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University (USA)

July 2017- August 2017 Visiting Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University (USA)

July 2016- August 2016 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in junction with School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University (USA)

March 2016 Visiting Scientist, Max Plank Institute Dresden (Germany)

July 2015- August 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in junction with School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

July 2014- August 2014 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in junction with School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Sept 2013 – Dec 2013 Visiting Scientist, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Santa Barbara, CA, USA

July 2013-August 2013: Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in junction with School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

June 2012 Invited Guest at SRB 2012 of the Stanford Rock Physics & Borehole Geophysics Project, Stanford University, USA

August 2011-July 2012: Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cornell University, USA

June 2005: Visiting Scientist, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Santa Barbara, CA, USA

August-December 2004: Visiting Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, NY, USA

September-November 2003: Visiting Scientist, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

December 2002: Visiting Scientist, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, NY, USA

September-October 2002: Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute, Dresden Germany

October-November 2001: Visiting Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, NY, USA

Summer 2001: Visiting Scientist, Schlumberger Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, CT, USA

January-July 2001: Postdoctoral Associate, Theoretical Mechanics Group, Kingston University, UK

September 2000-January 2001: Postdoctoral Associate, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

April-June 2000: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, NY, USA

IV. Invited Seminars

Cornell University, 2018
Max Plank Institute, Dresden (Germany), 2016
City College New York City, 2015
University of Udine, Italy, 2014
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, USA, 2013
University of Minnesota, EM’08, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 2008
Politecnico of Milan, Italy, September 2007
Southern Workshop on Granular Materials, September 2006, Vina del Mar, Chile
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, November 2004,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA, October, 2004
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, September 2003
University of Genova, Italy, November 2000
Laboratoire Sols, Solides, et Structures, Grenoble, France, March 2000

Research Grants as P.I.

Office of Naval Research: ONR Global, London 2017-2019: “Theoretical, numerical and experimental analysis of elastic and acoustic waves in a fluid-saturated aggregate of particles”. N62909-17-1-2048

Office of Naval Research: ONR Global, London “Fluidization of a sand bed”, 2014, N62909-14-1-V261

Office of Naval Research: ONR Global, London, “An experimental and theoretical
investigation on the fluidization of a sand bed by turbulent fluctuations in the absence of mean shearing”, 2013, N62909‐13‐1‐V152

Giovedì 14:00-16:00 (Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria Civile e dell'Architettura, sez. Ingegneria Strutturale, Aula I2)