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GIOVANNI GIACOMELLO

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Position

Ricercatore a tempo det. art. 24 c. 3 lett. B L. 240/2010

Structure

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale - ICEA

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 9 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275568

E-mail

giovanni.giacomello@unipd.it

2011 - Master degree in “Civil Engineering”, curriculum “Infrastructures for transport”, University of Padua.
2015 - Ph.D. in “Engineering Sciences” Curriculum “Civil Engineering, Construction and Architecture”, Course “Infrastructures”, Università Politecnica delle Marche.
2017-2019 - Research fellow at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (Dept. CAEE), University of Padua.
2020 - National scientific qualification to function as associate professor in Italian Universities.
2021 - Assistant Professor (ICAR/04) at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (Dept. CAEE), University of Padua.
Lecturer for teaching unit of "Laboratory of Materials for Transport Infrastructures" (from A.Y. 2018/19 to present) for Master Degree in Civil Engineering (2° year, 2° cycle), 48 hours (6CFU), in English.

Lecturer for teaching unit "Roads, Railways and Airports" (A.Y. 2019/20) for Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering (3° year, 2° cycle), 48 hours (6CFU), in Italian.

Teaching assistant for “Roads, Railways and Airports”, “Road Infrastuctures Design” and “Railway and Airport Infrastructures” at the Department ICEA – University of Padua (from the A.Y. 2012/13 to A.Y. 2018/2019).

Visiting Professor at the National Advanced School of Public Works in Yaoundé (Camerun) to teach “Railways and Airports” (from the A.Y. 2014/15 to A.Y. 2017/2018).

Partecipation at several (national and international) conferences, seminars and courses, also as speaker. Author of 70 papers and supervisor/co-supervisor of 60 theses (bachelor and master degree in Civil Engineering) from A.Y 2012/13 to present. Reviewer for several International Journal: “Construction and Building materials” (Elsevier), "Road Materials Pavement Design" (Taylor and Francis), “Materials and Structures” (Springer) "Journal of Testing and Evaluation" (ASTM International), "Infrastructures" (MDPI) and “Advances in Civil Engineering” (Hindawi).

Member of:
- SIIV (Società Italiana Infrastrutture Viarie) from 2012,
- CIFI (Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani) from 2013,
- AIIT (Associazione Italiana per l’ingegneria del Traffico e dei Trasporti) from 2014,
- IABMAS (International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety) from 2015.

Notices

Educational material can be found in the web site https://sites.google.com/site/stradeferrovieaeroportigroup/Home
In the web site there are specific links to the web page of each course, where the teaching material (password protected) can be downloaded only by students attending the lessons.
In the home page, information about lessons timetable, meeting with students, exams date, etc. are described.
In the web site, there is also a detailed description concerning the "Sistemi e Infrastrutture di Trasporto" curriculum, activities of the "Roads Railways and Airports" group as well as scientific societies which the group belongs to (CIRS, HIT, Levi-Cases, AIIT, SIIV).
Lessons of past years can be downloaded in the Moodle platform; registration is mandatory.

Office hours

  • L'Ing. Giacomello riceve gli studenti ogni settimana. Data e orario del ricevimento sono costantemente aggiornati nel sito https://sites.google.com/site/stradeferrovieaeroportigroup/Home. Office hours for students: constant updates on the web site https://sites.google.com/site/stradeferrovieaeroportigroup/Home

Teachings

Research Area

Research topics:
- Rheological-physical-mechanical characterization of bitumen, bituminous mixtures (hot mix asphalt, cold mix asphalt, etc.) and cement bound mixtures for road and airport infrastructures;
- Aggregates and materials, even unconventional, for road, railway and airport infrastructures;
- Road pavement for concrete bridge decks;
- Warm-Mix Asphalt;
- Design, construction and maintenance of railway infrastructures;
- Road safety;
- Life Cycle Assessment applied to the design, construction and maintenance of transport infrastructures;
- Building Information Modeling applied to the transport infrastructures (I-BIM).

Thesis proposals

Students interested in "Roads, Railways and Airports" topics are invited to contact the teacher: giovanni.giacomello@unipd.it - 049-827-5568.