SCOTTA ROBERTO

Generalities
Birth: August 16, 1967 – Treviso (Italy)
Associate Professor of Structural Design at the Department of Civil, Architectural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Padova (Italy) from 2022.
Member of the Faculty of the Ph.D. School in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences (SIC&A) of the University of Padova.
Member of the Scientific Committee of ISI (Italian Seismic Engineering) and CRIACIV (Inter-University Research Centre on Building Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering).
Education
1992 – master’s degree in structural civil engineering at the University of Padova discussing a thesis on “Durability of r.c. Structures”;
1998 – Ph.D in Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna, discussing a thesis on “Mechanical Analysis of Concrete Structures by Means of Damage Models”;
1998-99 – post Ph.D. research activities in the Scientific Area n. 9 – Civil Engineering and Architecture – on the theme “Development of Non Linear Constitutive Models Based on Continuum Damage for the Seismic Analysis of R.C. Structures”;
University classes held at University of Padova:
2003/04 to 2005/06 – Contract Teacher for “Precasted Structures” course, Master Civil Engineering Program.
2006/2007 to 2007/08 – Contract Teacher for “Structural Design II” course, Master Civil Engineering Program.
From 2008/09 to 2015/16– “Structural Construction I”, Bachelor Civil Engineering Program.
From 2012/13 to 2017/18 – “Precast and Timber Structures”, Master Civil Engineering Program.
From 2016/17 – “Structural Construction II”, Master Civil Engineering Program.
From 2018/19 – “Timber Structures”, Master Civil Engineering Program.
Teacher and organization duties in several Master courses and Professional Updating Courses on the themes of Structural Durability, Structural Design, Eurocodes, Seismic Design, Retrofitting of existing buildings, Finite Element Analysis.
Educational activities
He is member of the scientific committee of a Ph.D. school from 2007. Currently he is member of the scientific committee of that of “Doctoral School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Sciences” of the University of Padova.
During his academic career he has tutored:
- 10 Ph.D. fellows (2 on-going)
- About 300 bachelor degree thesis
- More than 200 master degree thesis
Research activities
His research activity covers the following fields:
- 1. Durability of R.C. structures and historical buildings;
- 2. Computational non-linear mechanics of materials
- 3. Coupled problems: soil-structure and fluid-structure
- 4. Computational methods for the design of complex buildings
- 5. Seismic analysis and strengthening of existing and historical buildings
- 6. Hybrid steel-concrete structures
- 7. R.C. shear-walls cast into no-bearing formworks
- 8. Timber Structures
- 9. Novel Constructive Techniques
- 10. Seismic performances of non-structural elements
- 11. Forestry engineering
He is author or co-author of 158 scientific publications of which: 51 on international journals with referee, 49 on proceedings of international congresses, 5 on national journals, 38 on proceedings of national congresses, 10 monographs or book chapters, 3 Technical Reports of the University of Padua. He is also co-author of two international patents for innovative systems for timber construction. His bibliometric indices, according to the main databases of scientific publications, are the followings (updated march 2022):
Bibliometric indices:
H index 20 (Scopus), 19 (WOS), 21 (ResearchRate)
H index (excluding auto-citation) 20 (Scopus), 20 (ResearchGate)
Citations 1.518 (Scopus), 1.210 (WOS), 1.630 (ResearchGate)