Assistant Professors

He received his PhD in Materials and Structures from UNICAL in 2006. Prior to his appointment as an Assistant Professor, he also served as Research Fellow at KAUST (KSA) from 2010 to 2011, as Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois (USA) in 2009 and as Post-Doc Fellow at UNICAL from 2007 to 2008. His recent research has been mainly carried out in the broad area of mechanics of materials, with emphasis on adhesive bonding of advanced materials. He serves as Editorial Board member in several international journals. He also held visiting positions in multiple international institutions across Europe, Middle East and the USA.

E Hernandez, M Alfano, D Pulungan, G Lubineau, Toughness amplification in copper/epoxy joints through pulsed laser micro-machined interface heterogeneities, Scientific Reports 7 (1), art. no. 16344
L. Canal, M. Alfano, J. Botsis, A multi-scale based cohesive zone model for the analysis of thickness scaling effects in fiber bridging, Composites Science and Technology, 139 (8), (2017) 90-98
E. Hernandez, M. Alfano, G. Lubineau, U. Buttner, Improving adhesion of Cu n40/ epoxy oints by pulsed laser surface pretreatment, International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 64, (2016) 23- 32.
A. Shaghaghi Moghaddam, M. Alfano. Finite element analysis of D cracks in FGMs under thermal loading, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 146, (2015) 172-184
G. Rotella, M. Alfano, I. Jansen, T. Schiefer, Enhancement of static strength and long term durability of steel/epoxy oints through a fiber laser surface pre-treatment, International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 63, (2015) 87–95.

Mechanical characterization of advanced materials.
Surface preparation strategies.
Tribology.
Joining technologies .
Computational fracture mechanics.
Parametric identifi cation using iterative techniques (e.g. genetic algorithms) and full fi eld measurements.

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