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Nicola Pugno

Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian scientist, mechanical engineer, astrophysicist, holding PhDs in fracture mechanics and biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin) and part-time professor of materials science at Queen Mary University of London. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.

He has been appointed to several committees, including the technical and scientific committee of the Italian Space Agency, and has served as a plenary speaker at numerous international workshops, events and conferences, such as Falling Walls, at the World Economic Forum and the European Parliament invited by the European Research Council (ERC) as well as -as opening plenary speaker- at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2020+1). He is editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of ''Frontiers in Materials''.

Pugno has published around 650 papers in international journals. For his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion, he has received multiple awards. These include the first edition of the GiovedìScienza prize in 2012 (for both research and science popularization), the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize in 2017 and the Humboldt Prize in 2022. Since 2011, he has secured several grants from the European Union mainly under the Excellent Science pillars -including 5 ERC grants- for both fundamental science and high-tech transfer, which he is developing for various high-tech industries. Provided by Wikipedia