ABC-PhD general presentation

ABCPhD Program
Architecture, Built Environment
and Construction Engineering
Doctorate Program

ANVUR, Rapporto sullo stato del sistema universitario e della ricerca, 2013
Italy doesn’t invest in education…

R&D intensity (spesa del nostro Paese rispetto al PIL (GDP):
UK = 1,4 ITA e DEU = 2,2 ITA)
Italy doesn’t invest in research …
Immagini e dati
dal rapporto
Elsevier 2013

Italy
Italia e GII
Su circa 140 paesi
– Siamo 29imi per
innovation output
– Siamo 28imi per
innovation input
– Siamo 62imi per
innovation
efficiency
The Global Innovation Index 2013
Italy has a low
profile as innovator

Italy
Italia e GII
Su circa 140 paesi
– Siamo 33imi per
innovation output
– Siamo 32imi per
innovation input
– Siamo 52imi per
innovation
efficiency
The Global Innovation Index 2014

Italy
Paesi migliori:
16. NO – Norvegia
17. NZ – Nuova Zelanda
18. KR – Corea del sud
19. AU – Australia
20. FR – Francia
21. BE – Belgio
22. JP – Giappone
23. AU – Austria
24. MT – Malta
25. EE – Estonia
26. ES – Spagna
27. CY – Cipro
28. CZ – Cechia
29. IT – Italia
30. SI – Slovenia
31. HU – Ungheria
32. MY - Malesia

Italy
Le cose sono peggiorate
in questo anno di crisi

Italian Research System
Immagini e dati
dal rapporto
Elsevier 2013
Articles per Global Expenditure in Research
and Development (GERD) in million dollars
But our researchers have one of the
highest research productivity in the
world (articles per million dollar)!

Politecnico di Milano
– 229th university
– 31th technical university
– 8th technical university in Europe
(after: ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, Imperial
College, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
University of Oxford, Delft University of Technology,
Technische Universität München)
Dati 2014!
Politecnico is one of the first
technical universiy in Europe…

The ABC Department
ABC: Architecture, Built Environment
and Construction Engineering
– 155 Researchers, Associate and Full professors
– About 100 “Assistant Researchers” (assegnisti),
“Assistant Professors” and other contracts
– About 40 Administrative and Technical Staff
– About 100 PhD Students (average num.)
Our department is one of the biggest in
Italy, for Construction and Architecture

ICAR05 TRASPORTI
ICAR06 TOPOGRAFIA E CARTOGRAF
ICAR07 GEOTECNICA
ICAR08 SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZION
ICAR09 TECNICA DELLE COSTRUZION
ICAR10 ARCHITETTURA TECNICA
ICAR11 PRODUZIONE EDILIZIA
ICAR12 TECNOLOGIA DELL'ARCHITE
ICAR14 COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITET. E
ICAR15 ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAG
ICAR17 DISEGNO
ICAR18 STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA
ICAR19 RESTAURO
ICAR21 URBANISTICA
ICAR22 ESTIMO
INGIND11 FISICA TECNICA AMBIENT
MED42 IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICA
SECSP06 ECONOMIA APPLICATA
SECSP07 ECONOMIA AZIENDALE
Architectural
&Urban Design
Building Technologies
Structural
Mechanics
Modelling
The Disciplines of the Department
And one of the most complete, for what
concerns Scientific Disciplines for our sector

ABC-Dept comes from a fusion
The department is the result of a complex fusion
process among different scientific groups

Who is the PhD holder?
The ten “doctoral plus”

1. A PhD holder knows how to find answers
If you are trained to identify
and solve problems, you are
trained for decision-making:
• critical thinking
• complex problem solving
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com

2. A PhD holder is not frightened
he/she learns from failures

3. A PhD holder is not easily frightened
They have been tempered in uncertainty
and fully experienced with negative bosses)

4. A PhD holder is taught (tempered)
for high level communication
You don’t just regurgitate information, you create it.

5. A PhD holder is taught (tempered)
to compete and to cooperate

6. PhD holder’s talent is innovation
[progressive&disruptive innovation]
«les docteurs … peuvent apporter “les innovations de rupture” qui feront les
emplois et la croissance de demain» M.C. Corbier, LesEcho.fr 12/11/14

7. PhD holders share a valuable set of
relations with experts and stakeholders
PhD Doctors are requested to build relations at a global level with the most influential
and experts and to join, locally too, with stakeholders and their representative. These
networks are less easily ACCESSIBLE by industrial and social parties

8. PhD holders have knowledge, experience
and creativity to use it with high profit
©2014-2015 neo-mahakala-108

9. The three years costs to grow PhD holders
are payed back by their three year work
PhD Candidates, during their first year are mostly devoted to understand the questions to
face and to complete their knowledge. But they start working ASAP … and the more their
are helped in this first task, the quicker their results come … do you have any question?

10. PhD training cost is low
but it needs medium term programs
Slide by: Lidia Borrell-Damian
Director, Research and Innovation,
European University Association,
8th EUA-CDE workshop Aix-
Marseille, January 2015)

PhD in the Italian Research System
Valore assoluto del numero di
dottorandi nei Paesi analizzati
dal rapporto Elsevier2013
Si noti
• crescita: USA/CHI/UK
• Decrescita: ITA/JPN
• Valore assoluto:
UK=2ITA
DEU=3ITA
Immagini e dati
dal rapporto
Elsevier 2013
ITALY DOESN’T BELIEVE
(yet) IN PhD

PhD School – Polimi
 18 Programmes
 More than 1100 PhD candidates
 370 new PhD candidates per year (~ 75% of them earn
grants or research contracts) (~ 1300 applications)
 ~ 28% International students (33% in 2013-14)
 ~ 200 third-level courses, held by Italian and
International Experts
 3692 PhDs in about 30 years
 Less than 1/3 works in university
 Teaching mostly in English – at least an English track
 Research in international environment (international
projects, professors, PhD candidates)
@Polimi
1985 PhD Programs started
2001 PhD School started
2014 XXX cycle
POLITECNICO BELIEVES IN PhDs

The PhD Program too
comes from a fusion
ABC-PhD Program
Doctoral program in Architecture, Built
Environment and Construction Engineering
Salzburg Principles:
• N.3 Diversity
• N.6 Critical Mass
• N.8 Innovative interdisciplinar

General Presentation
ABC-PhD Program has been established in 2012, following the complete
reorganization of the area of Architecture, Built Environment and
Construction Engineering in one only Department.
It results as merge of the following four PhD Programs:
– Architectural Composition
– Building Systems Engineering
– Design and Technologies Exploitation for the Cultural Heritage
– Technology and Design for Environment and Building
These four programs have been joined by a group of researchers from a fifth
one: the PhD Program in Structural Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering.
All these Programs have been separately active since 1990, mainly focussing
on one only discipline. Their merge was aimed at optimizing the capability of
the Department in facing and solving complex training needs, with a single
organizational unit.
ABC
PhD
ARCHITECTURAL
COMPOSITION
Building System
ENGINEERING
Cultural
Heritage
Built Environment
Technologies
Structural
Engineering

“mission”, “vision” and basic principles

Our Mission
to train future researchers
for the extensive field of
Architecture, Built
Environment and
Construction Engineering.
Trained to face complex
questions in complex contexts
Trained to innovate

Our Vision
Our future researchers are
self-sufficient, independent
“actors”, able to gain an
outstanding position at an
international level:
as scientist/academic
as intellectuals
as professionals
as entrepreneurs
Trained to face complex
questions in complex contexts
and to innovate

Our Vision
We aim to become – in few years
– the Italian Point of Reference
for training experts in all the most
critical subjects related to the
sustainable (environmental,
economical, social and cultural
sustainability) transformation
and management of the Built
Environment ecosystem
Immagine trovata in internet: http://www.gentside.com/phare/wallpaper

Our principles (the ten pillars)
of a competitive, attractive, well working PhD Program

1 – Doctoral Candidates are trained
producing original research
Research training is through research itself, working with other
researchers, mainly in the ABC Department.
Candidate’s activity is embedded in our institutional activity
(Sistematica Collaborazione all’interno in programmi di ricerca
dipartimentali)
[Salzburg Principles, 1 and 2]

2 – PhD candidates are trained as
independent (mentored) researchers
Mentors (tutor, supervisor, advisor) are
counsellors, trainers, bosses , and their
qualities are:
– Credibility
– Integrity
– Confidence
– Cooperation
Mentorship means to involve, to offer
opportunities, also for learning from
errors and bearing responsibilities.
Pablo E. Fabisch -
http://paesmem.stanford.edu/html/proceed
ings_4.html
[Salzburg Principles, N.4: Early Stage Researchers, and N.5, The
crucial role of supervision …]

3 – PhD training is tailored on the
Candidate and his/her objectives
Each Candidate defines, with the Tutor
his/her Research and Training Plan
(R&Tplan):
– A lot of research activity about a
chosen topic (66-85%).
– Some formal training (few), to
gain a common starting level and
to fill possible gaps, to get basic
skills (e.g. research management
and communication) and to be
updated

4 – PhD candidates are continuously
reviewed and assessed
ABC-PhD: study + work + internal review and external assessment
– Mentorship comes together with systematic review (6
Milestones) and independent assessment (by external
experts) of candidate’s projects and products
– Results are planned and expected from the first year
+
[Salzburg Principles, N.5, The crucial role of supervision and assessment]

5 – Strong relations with other
researchers in the global network
There are thousands of researchers in Europe, hundrieds of
thousands in the world: the most of them works on similar
projects and topics.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd112006s.gif
[Salzburg Principles, N.9, Increasing mobility]

6 – A management system designed
to improve our performances
[Salzburg Recommendation 2.7, Quality and accountability]

7 – High level and wide disciplinar
spectrum doctoral training offer
The whole PhD School offers a
complex and wide set of courses on
may topics and disciplines, with the
best international teachers and
about the most actual research
questions.
The Program adds a good number
of strategic and specialistic courses
and research workshops about our
main topics
[Salzburg Principles, N.3: Diversity]

8 – An effective recruitment process
1. Open, efficient, transparent and
supportive recruitment procedures ,
internationally comparable and
tailored to the advertised positions.
2. A selection based on the research
of the compromise among youngers
potential, personal motivation and
proved competencies.
[Salzburg Recommendation 2.2,
Recruitment, admission and status]

9 – Publishing PhD (but not too much)
PhD Candidates are directly involved in active research. Their average number of peer-
reviewed publications during the PhD is about 2,0. We aim to grow a lot in the future:
not a lot in number, in quality.
Alternative to publication: PATENT!
[Salzburg Principles, N.4: Doctoral Candidates as
early stage researchers.]
[Salzburg Reccomendation 2.4, The outcome of
their research must be original and suitable for
dissemination within the scientific community]

10 – Strong relation with stakeholders
Candidate’s activity is embedded in the institutional activity of
the ABC Department, that is defined in a strong relation with
stakeholders. Moreover, Candidates are strongly encouraged to
stay in relation with stakeholders …
OPEN INNOVATION
Inside-out
Outside-in
knowledge
resources
skills
ideas
EC Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training in Europe:
5. Exposure to industry and Interface with the labour market

10 – Strong relation with stakeholders
Candidate’s activity is embedded in the institutional activity of
the ABC Department, that is defined in a strong relation with
stakeholders. Moreover, Candidates are strongly encouraged to
stay in relation with stakeholders …
Image from Cheeky Scientist Association, from the post
“How To Transition From Academia Into Business”
http://cheekyscientist.com/phd-jobs/

… to open the door and look around
Published by AAAS, ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER
… to open the door and look around
… as soon as possible, before ending your PhD and your scholarship!

WE ARE A GREAT STRUCTURE,
with a rich scientific legacy
WE WANT to be competitive
and attractive
In conclusion:
EC Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training in EU:
6. Attractiveness of the research profession

ABC-PhD: 100 Candidates
(un dottorato da cento)
At now, 52 dottorandi …
ABC-PhD Program is you (your value is our value)
100

ABCPhD research fields
1. Advanced Materials and Innovative
Systems for Buildings
2. Energy and Environmental Efficient
Built Environment
3. Risk prevention and emergency
management
4. Architectural Design and Urban
Design
5. Complex Buildings Design,
Construction and Management
6. Preservation, Valorisation and
Promotion of Built Heritage
7. ICT and Smart Systems in
Construction and Planning
8. Built Environment Economics and
Management

Elisa Bertolesi
GENERAL TOPIC
Mechanical Modeling, Masonry, FRCM materials
PhD-Thesis
Reinforcement and seismic retrofitting of masonry
buildings with Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Matrix
materials
Tutor and supervisors
Gabriele Milani, Carlo Poggi
Short BIO
Master in Building Engineering in 2012 with the
thesis: “Utilizzo di connettori FRP nel rinforzo di
elementi in calcestruzzo e muratura. Modellazione
sperimentale, analitica e numerica”.

Ana Veljkovic
GENERAL TOPIC
Design of reinforced concrete structural elements for
durability
ARGUMENT
Fatigue behaviour of concrete elements internally
reinforced with FRP rebars
Short BIO
Master in Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade,
Serbia. She has experience in prestressed concrete
bridges design and in teaching at the University of
Belgrade in the field of Finite Element Method.

Vahid Afroughsabet
General Topic
High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete
ARGUMENT/Master-Thesis title
Experimental Study on Properties of Fiber-Reinforced
Concrete
Short BIO
I get my Bachelor, and Master degree in Civil engineering
from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. I am currently working
as a research associate at Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. My research interest is about
concrete material, and specially fibrous concrete. I have
the experience of being project engineer from 2007 till
2013. Furthermore, I am a registered civil engineer,
construction engineer organization, Iran from 2008 till
present.

IDENTIFICATION
Amin Alavi 2
POLITECNICO DI
MILANO
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Master of technology in Structural Engineering
Thesis Topic: Influence of Torsional Irregularities of RC Buildings In
High Seismic Zone
November 2014 – Research Scholar, PhD in Architecture, Built
Environment and Construction Engineering - XXX cycle

Giovanni Brambilla
GENERAL TOPIC
Sustainable Steel-Concrete Construction
TUTOR
Prof. Ing. Carlo Andrea Castiglioni
Short BIO
Born in Varese (Italy) on 07/10/1989.
Master Degree in Structural Engineering about “full
scale pushover testing and numerical analyses of steel
storage pallet racking system”, at Politecnico di Milano.

Gian Paolo Chiarelli
GENERAL TOPIC
Logistic of the future: Clad rack warehouses
TUTOR/SUPERVISOR:
Prof. Carlo Andrea Castiglioni
Short BIO
I was born on 29/04/1989.
Master Degree in Civil Engineering – Structural
Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. MSc Thesis
on seismic behaviour of pallet racking system.
I obtained, for this year, a research grant.

Mehdi Ghazimoradi
GENERAL TOPIC:
Textile Composites forming
ARGUMENT/ PhD-Thesis title:
Numerical & experimental analysis of textile composites
forming
Short BIO:
 Bachelor and Master in Textile Technology
Engineering.
 Working as a Researcher & Assistant Researcher in
Young Researcher Club for industry-oriented
projects.
 Research interested: FE analyses of mechanical
properties of textile composites, utilising textile
composites to optimise the heat transfer, and Carbon
Fabric Reinforced Composites.

Marco Simoncelli
GENERAL TOPIC
Seismic and Static Design of Steel structures
ARGUMENT
Sistemi industriali per lo stoccaggio delle merci in
presenza di azioni monotone e sismiche: criticità legate
all’interazione fondazione-struttura
Short BIO
Master degree in Civil Engineering at University of
Pavia.
He started to work on thin-walled cold-formed
members, especially on the development of a new and
innovative FE beam element able to catching the
flexural-torsional behaviour of these elements, one
year ago.

Dottorando da selezionare
GENERAL TOPIC
Innovative Construction Systems
ARGUMENT/PhD-Thesis title
Sistemi ibridi di Architettura Modulare Industrializzata
SPONSOR
Valsir spa, altre aziende manifatturiere

GENERAL TOPIC
Mechanical characterization of FRM repaired structural elements
Strengthening and repair with fibre reinforced composite materials of steel and
masonry structure

GENERAL TOPIC
To be defined
To be defined

ABCPhD research fields
1. Advanced Materials and Innovative
Systems for Buildings
2. Energy and Environmental Efficient
Built Environment
3. Risk prevention and emergency
management
4. Architectural Design and Urban
Design
5. Complex Buildings Design,
Construction and Management
6. Preservation, Valorisation and
Promotion of Built Heritage
7. ICT and Smart Systems in
Construction and Planning
8. Built Environment Economics and
Management
Rainwater recovery

Giorgia Marenzi
GENERAL TOPIC
Energy saving
PhD-Thesis
The role of building simulation model in control systems
for energy management and energy saving
Niccolò Aste
Short BIO
aGraduated cum laude in Architecture (2011),
Professional Architect (Milano, sez. A, 2012), Energy
Certifier (2013). She conducted several research and
educational activities related to energy conservation
and environmental sustainability at the Politecnico of
Milan.

Angelo Martucci
GENERAL TOPIC
Energy Management
PhD-Thesis
Smart Thermostats: Real-Time Determination of
Occupants’ Comfort Level for Optimized HVAC Operation in
Residential Buildings
Giuliano Dall’O
Short BIO
M.Sc. in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis
about Building Energy Performance for cooling in high-
performance residential buildings in Milan (April 2012).
Before joining the Doctoral Program at Politecnico di
Milano, he has been working as a Research Fellow at the
Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy USA in Boston
for 9 months (February-November 2013).

Alessio Passera
GENERAL TOPIC
Energy retrofit of buildings
PhD-Thesis
Optimization of a Prefabricated Solar Thermal Façade
for the Energy Retrofit of Existing Buildings
Gabriele Masera, Roberto Lollini (EURAC)
Short BIO
Master in Building Engineering, he is researcher at
European Academy of Bolzano since 2013, in the
research group: Energy Management in Buildings. He
worked in an engineering firm for 2 years during
university period. He currently deals with facades
integrating passive & active components and energy
modeling/simulation activity (Trnsys).

Alberto Speroni
GENERAL TOPIC
Shading systems, Building physics, Parametric design,
Technical details.
PhD-Thesis
Adaptive Shading Devices for high performance envelope
Tiziana Poli
Short BIO
2010 - 2012: MSc Building Systems Engineering @Polimi,
with an Exchange Period (1st semester) at Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spagna).
2007 – 2010: BSc Building Engineering at Politecnico di
Milano.

Marcella Bonanomi
GENERAL TOPIC
Life Cycle Assessment and BIM methodology.
Life cycle assessment and process integration towards an
environmental innovation.
Short BIO
Bachelor and Master in Architecture, she attended the Alta
Scuola Politecnica, gaining the ASP Diploma and a double
degree from Politecnico di Torino. Being always interested
in innovation and sustainability, she wrote her thesis on
Zero Energy and Zero Emission Buildings (ZEBs), which has
been published by Maggioli Editore in 2012.
Research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, she is now
focusing on innovative concepts such as Building
Information Modelling (BIM), Lifecycle Data Management
and Information Integration.

Fazel Khayatian
GENERAL TOPIC
Energy and Environmental Efficient Buildings
ARGUMENT/PhD -Thesis
Multi-Criteria Building Geometry Optimization
Proposed Tutor
Enrico De Angelis
Short BIO
Master of Science in Architecture from University of
Guilan and Lecturer at Apadana University. Academic
researcher at the ‘‘Energy Park’’ project funded by Iran
Energy Efficiency Organization (IEEO-SABA).
Main interests include: energy simulation and
optimization of buildings, artificial intelligence and
genetic algorithm in architectural design.

Elena Seghezzi
GENERAL TOPIC
Net Zero Energy Buildings
ARGUMENT
Design of grid-integrated buildings with high energy
performances
Proposed TUTOR
Gabriele Masera
Short BIO
MSc in Building Engineering – Architecture with a thesis focusing
on natural ventilation and adaptive comfort.
Erasmus in Seville (2010-11) and Erasmus Placement (2013) in
Barcelona at EMBT.

Vincenzo Todaro
GENERAL TOPIC
HEMP-LIME TECHNOLOGIES
BIO
Freelance Architect, from 2011
- sustainable architecture
- public administration
- job experience in Como, Milan, New York
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Sustainable Architecture Design (2010)
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch)
Environmental Architecture Design (2007)
SPONSOR:

Federica Zagarella
GENERAL TOPIC
Energy and Environmental Efficient Buildings (E3B).
Neighbourhoods, cities and territory
ABCPHD-09 - Design of grid-integrated new buildings with
high energy performances.
Short BIO
Master in Architecture at Università di Palermo in 2013.
Lecturer at Politecnico di Milano, Dept. ABC., Energy in
Building and Communities, with prof. S. Ferrari.
Participation in the IEA EBC project «Cost-Effective Energy and
Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation (Annex
56)»; in particular participation in: WP A2, i.e. an assessment
of cost-effective energy renovation packages for the
residential sector, and WP C1, i.e. an assessment of shining
examples of energy renovation measures for the residential
sector.

Andrea Zani
GENERAL TOPIC
Innovation in building envelope and energy efficiency
ARGUMENT
Adaptive components with complex geometry for low
impact and performance building envelope
Tutor
Tiziana Poli
Short BIO
Master degree in Building Engineering, at Politecnico di
Milano, 2014. Master thesis: Sistemi di protezione solare
a geometria complessa. Last work experince was in Arup
Façade Team in Milan. During his studies he focused on
technology, materials and energy aspects and how they
affect buildings energy efficiency, performance and
occupants comfort conditions, developing a knowledge in
Building Physics and skills and competencies on building
technologies, detailing and materials properties.
SPONSOR:

Gaia Barbieri
GENERAL TOPIC
Historical masonry buildings
PhD-Thesis
Vulnerability of historical masonry buildings – The
domes
Luigi Biolzi
Short BIO
July 2012 – Master Degree in Architetture at Politecnico
di Milano. Thesis: “Il Palazzo del Capitano a Mantova.
Analisi di vulnerabilità e proposte di intervento”.
Teaching assistant: “Structural Strengthening of
historical buildings”

Emanuele Gandelli
GENERAL TOPIC
Seismic isolation
PhD-Thesis
Technologically advanced isolators for seismic
protection of strategic buildings
Stefano Capolongo, Virginio Quaglini, Pina Limongelli
Short BIO
Master degree in Civil Engineering. After gratuating he
was employed by an Italian company operating in the
field of structural protection systems. This topic was
then deepened as Research Fellow at Politecnico di
Milano with particular emphasis on the seismic
protection of high speed railway infrastructures.

Alper Kanyilmaz
GENERAL TOPIC
Seismic design of Steel Structures
PhD-Thesis
Development of optimized design rules for
concentrically braced steel frame buildings in moderate
seismic areas
Carlo Castiglioni
Short BIO
Master in Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

GENERAL TOPIC
Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit
ARGUMENT
Low-Cost Seismic Retrofitting of “Poor Masonry”
Historical Buildings
Tutor, Supervisor
Luigi Biolzi, Alberto Franchi
Short BIO
April 2013, Master Degree in Civil Structural Engineer
Politecnico di Milano:“Analisi Pushover Modale per la
Verifica Sismica di Viadotti Autostradali”
May 2013 - October 2014, Structural Engineer, CISE
Consortium, Scuola Master F.lli Pesent
Nicola Giordano

GENERAL TOPIC
Vulnerability and repair of masonry structures
La fessurazione nelle strutture in muratura fino a collasso: il
progetto di ricostruzione e miglioramento sismico della
Basilica di Collemaggio all’Aquila

Lindita Bande
GENERAL TOPIC
Sustainable City, Urban Design, City Development,
Categorization, Strategies
PhD-Thesis title
Strategies and Policies for a Sustainable City. The case
Study of Abu Dhabi Main Island [United Arab Emirates]
Adalberto Del Bo, Paola Ronca
Short BIO
MS in Architecture, Executive Master in Sustainable
Architecture, and in Project Management, she is currently
visiting at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology for
an Internship, part of herPhD Program.

Daniele Beacco
GENERAL TOPIC
Sustainable Architecture, Developing countries
PhD-Thesis title
Techniques of Architectural and Urban Design with
attention to the energy aspects in the cities of the Asian
Subcontinentt
Adalberto Del Bo
Short BIO
Master Degree in Architetture at Politecnico di Milano.
Teaching assistant: “Architectural Composition”

Giovanni Castaldo
GENERAL TOPIC
Metropolitan areas, administrative and urban
decentralization, governance and management of
urban transformations.
PhD-Thesis
Experimentation of innovative PPPs in 'cold' Public Civic
Buildings. A design-driven approach for enhancing the
construction of the Public City in the Metropolitan Area
of Milan
Elena Mussinelli, Fabrizio Schiaffonati
Short BIO
Master in Architecture al Politecnico di Milano con lode
(Double Joint Degree with Politecnico di Torino – ASP).

Marta Ferretti
GENERAL TOPIC
Quality systems for social housing
PhD-Thesis
The design of Housing as a paradigm of contemporary
living. A validation system for architectural quality
Elena Mussinelli, Matteo Gambaro
Short BIO
2012. Scholarship at “Soprintendenza per i Beni
Architettonici e Paesaggistici delle Provincie di Brescia,
Cremona, Mantova”
2010-2014. Professional activities of architect (Part III) and
teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano
2010. Master degree in Architecture at “Politecnico di
Milano”. Thesis title: “26Km. Bergamo-San Pellegrino
Terme. Recovery and refunctionalization of the railway line
Valle Brembana”.

Beatrice Gerli
GENERAL TOPIC
Structural architecture
Research on structural architecture’s typological
historicized and modern techniques possibilities to
consider structural forms as determinants of
architectural composition.
Proposed Tutur and Supervisor
Prof. Massimo Ferrari
Short BIO
Semestral Erasmus program at Techiniche Universitaat
Munchen. Graduated cum laude at Politecnico di Milano
in Architecture with the thesis A museum for
submerged archeology in Syracuse. Licensed in
Architecture in July 2014. Assistant at the course
Laboratorio di progettazione architettonica 2 LM.

GENERAL TOPIC
Design for emergency
ARGUMENT / PhD-Thesis title
A new construction system for a reversible multi-scale
prototype in developing countries.
Proposed Tutor and Supervisor
Massimo Ferrari, Domenico Chizzoniti
Short BIO
She graduated cum laude in Architecture at Politecnico di
Milano in April 2013 and attended the Workshop Ex area
Falck in Sesto San Giovanni in close collaboration with Renzo
Piano Building Workshop and Bizzi & Partners.
She is a tutor for Architectural Design studio I (Chizzoniti),
and Architectural Design in Developing Countries I (Cattani)
and she conducts research activity in the ADL "Architectural
Design Laboratory”.
Monica Moscatelli

GENERAL TOPIC
Preservation and enhancement of Built Heritage
La governance del territorio rurale: strumenti, metodi e progetti per l’innovazione e la
valorizzazione del patrimonio paesaggistico e storico culturale

Andrea Rebecchi
GENERAL TOPIC
Environmental hygiene, social architecture
PhD-Thesis
Regeneration strategies to improve urban quality and
health promotion
Stefano Capolongo, Maddalena Buffoli
Short BIO
Master in "Pianificazione, programmazione e
progettazione dei sistemi ospedalieri e socio-sanitari"
edition n°IV - Politecnico di Milano, Aprile 2013.
Master in Architecture with a thesis on the topics of
urban regeneration of brownfields in Sarajevo, @polimi,
April 2011

Caterina Franco
GENERAL TOPIC
Complex Constructions
Complex constructions in Alpine region
Proposed TUTOR
Emilio Faroldi
Short BIO
I graduated with honours in Architecture in July 2013. The
master thesis was a projectual intervention in alpine area for
the requalification of a old village in Lombardy. After
graduation I worked on this project as a designer since the
intervention is now in his executive phase.
I studied at Politecnico di Milano spending the first year of
Master at ENSA Paris- Belleville, thanks to Erasmus
Programme.

Marco Gola
GENERAL TOPIC
Design of healthcare facilities
ARGUMENT | PhD-Thesis title
Sustainable High Quality Healthcare Facilities
TUTOR
Prof. Stefano Capolongo
Short BIO
Architect, graduate in Architecture for Sustainability in Politecnico di Torino. He was a
student of Alta Scuola Politecnica and he obtained the diploma with a multidisciplinary
evaluation system of hospitals’ sustainability. Nowadays he is specializing in hospital
planning and construction; in the last year he worked in Techint Engineering & Construction
in the Healthcare Department and he took part in the Master’s degree ‘Pianificazione,
programmazione e progettazione dei sistemi ospedalieri e socio-sanitari’ organized by
Politecnico di Milano.

Stefano Perelli
GENERAL TOPIC
Design of healthcare facilities
ARGUMENT | PhD-Thesis title
Healtcare facilities sizing concept
TUTOR
Prof. Stefano Capolongo
Short BIO
Architect, he took part in the Master’s degree in “Pianificazione,
Programmazione e Progettazione dei Sistemi Ospedalieri e
Socio-Sanitari” organized by Politecnico di Milano. In the last
few years he worked in different atelier as apprentice. He is now
working among UPA (Urbanism and Planning Architecture) as
project architect. He is an expert in Hospital design, Software
Managment, Graphic Design and Design Review.

GENERAL TOPIC
Rigenerazione urbana: strumenti e strategie per la
localizzazione delle Strutture Sanitarie
SPONSOR
Gala

Stefano Farina
GENERAL TOPIC
Architecture and Landscape
PhD-Thesis
The cultural heritage in Mantova between ancient core
and its landscape
Short BIO
2012 Master in architecture at Politecnico di Milano.
From 2012 Teaching assistant: Laboratory of landscape
architecture.
Since 2009 collaborates with several architectural firms
at projects and competitions related to architecture and
landscape design.

Cecilia Fumagalli
GENERAL TOPIC
Historic Urban Landscape in the Islamic World
PhD-Thesis
Historic Urban Landscape and Islamic City: Heritage and
Sustainable Development Intersections
Adalberto Del Bo, Francesco Siravo
Short BIO
Master Degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano,
professional in some architectural practices, tutor at
Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. In 2013 she
was chief architect of the Rehabilitation Project ok Ksar
Loudaghir, Figuig, Morocco.
In 2012 she attended the Specialization Course in “Habitat,
Technologies and Development” at Politecnico di Torino.

Riccardo Valente
GENERAL TOPIC
HBIM, Archaeology, Augumented Reality
PhD-Thesis
A multi-user geo-archeo model for augmented
archaeological information.
Raffaella Brumana, Mirella Ferrari (unicatt)
Short BIO
Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage Science, MSc in
Archaeology and History of Art – Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore, Milano. He is particularly interested in
Medieval and Post-medieval Archaeology, Historical
Architecture, Archeological Survey Methodologies and
Three-dimensional Archaeology.

Cristina Boniotti
GENERAL TOPIC
Preservation and Enhancement of Built Heritage
Conservation in the valorisation process and management of
Built Cultural Heritage, particularly in the case of public and
complex properties.
Short BIO
Master and Bachelor in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.
Graduation thesis: Sea Architecture. History, Cataloging,
Restoration and Enhancement of Colonie Marine in Emilia
Romagna as a cultural heritage and design.
Internships at Ufficio Beni Culturali Ecclesiastici,
Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici,
Cultural Service of the Province of Monza and Brianza.

Sara Caspani
GENERAL TOPIC
Valorisation of Cultural Heritage
Grow up with Cultural Heritage – appreciate our past to be
able to plan our future. Cultural Heritage using modern ICT
technologies, 3d models (BIM) and innovative communication
tools focused on Childhood target group.
TUTOR/SUPERVISOR: Scazzosi + Lombardini
Short BIO
Master of Science in Civil Architecture and Full Degree in
Building Engineering/Architectural, she is assistant researcher
at Politecnico di Milano, enrolled in the Dept. ABC.
She is an expert in Restoration and Conservation with
particular regards to development and training of sustainable
approach for: architecture, urban design, preservation and
valorisation of Cultural Heritage in International contexts
(TEMPUS Sehud)

Laura Franzon
GENERAL TOPIC
Preservation and enhancement of Built Heritage
Archaeological site and architectural project
Proposed Tutor and Supervisors
Angelo Torricelli, Luisa Ferro
Short BIO
She graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano in 2009
and she has worked as architect since 2010 (when she got the
abilitation for the profession). In the same year she got the
qualification of Expert in the field of environmental protection
and landscape at Ordine degli Ingegneri di Milano. She is
attending a Master Degree Program in “Architecture,
Archeology and Museum Design – Innovative Design and
Management of Archaeological Heritage" at Accademia
Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia.

Manuele Cassano
GENERAL TOPIC
Construction and Health and Safety Management
PhD-Thesis
Implementing building, context and operational
information to manage construction site from pre-design
to execution phase
Raffaella Brumana, Marco Trani
Short BIO
Master of science in Building Engineering at Politecnico di
Milano, PhD candidate in the Dept. ABC, with the
Research grant: “BIM.nD technique applied to restoration
site design”. He is involved in research projects concerning
BIM, developing construction site aspects (PRIN - BHIMM).
Case study: Santa Maria di Collemaggio and Teatro alla
Scala. He is also teaching in professional courses.

Junia Compostella
GENERAL TOPIC
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
PhD-Thesis
Information Modeling of Building features peculiar to
Heritage Building (BHIM): Cracks
Angelo Ciribini, Ezio Arlati, Vladimir Bazjanac
Short Bio
Born and raised in Milano, Italy, she studied at a classic
public High School in Milano and got a bachelor in
Environmental Architecture and a master in Environmental
Architecture & Cultural Heritage conservation
@Politecnico di Milano
She is an expert in Building Information Model (BIM)
BIM
authoring
software
type A
authoring
software
type B
authoring
software
type C
authoring
software
type N
downstream
software
type 1
downstream
software
type 2
downstream
software
type 3
downstream
software
type x
downstream
software
type y
downstream
software
type z
population
BIM

Marzia Bolpagni
GENERAL TOPIC
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Adversarial and Relational Contracts: a BIM-Based
Innovative Approach to Public Procurement Routes
Suggested Tutor and Supervisor
Angelo Ciribini (UNIBS), David Philp (AECOM, UK)
Short BIO
Master of Science in Architectural Engineering at UNIBS.
Research Trainee at VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland, where she developed part of her Master Thesis
‘The Implementation of BIM within the Public Procurement:
a model-based approach for the Construction Industry’.
Research Fellow at the Construction Technologies Institute –
National Research Council (ITC-CNR).

Daniela Pasini
TOPIC
Information management in the building process, in
order to choose optimal technical solutions from both
performance and economic point of view
TUTOR proposal
Prof. Bruno Daniotti
Short BIO
Graduated in Architectural Engineering at Università di
Brescia, she had a research fellowship at Dept. ABC of
Politecnico di Milano for two years

Alice Pasquinelli
GENERAL TOPIC
Territorial Database for built environment
Use of topographic database as a decision support tool in
built environment management, transformation and
valorization processes.
TUTOR/SUPERVISOR: De Angelis/Guzzetti
Short BIO
Master Degree in Urban planning and policy design, she
is research assistant at Politecnico di Milano and lecturer
in Geographical Information System laboratory («Rilievo
della città e cartografia»). She is a GIS expert and worked
in several research project giving support in data analysis
and map production.

GENERAL TOPIC
Smart Buildings
Smart Buildings in Smart Cities: piattaforma integrata di
gestione delle informazioni
SPONSOR
Consulting eFM

GENERAL TOPIC
IT in Construction Engineering and Design/project Management
BIM e change management nelle strutture di progettazione
SPONSOR
Lettera22

GENERAL TOPIC
Rete della Conoscenza per l’innovazione di Prodotto e di Processo nel Settore delle
Costruzioni. Sostenibilità, Efficienza Energetica e Digitalizzazione per le Imprese e la
Catena di Fornitura
SPONSOR
ASSIMPREDIL Ance

GENERAL TOPIC
Uso dei Modelli Informativi (BIM) nell'organizzazione dei processi integrati di
trasformazione del territorio: metodi contrattuali collaborativi e gestione del rischio
SPONSOR
Viviani spa

GENERAL TOPIC
Building Information Management
Information Management and Data Analytics
SPONSOR
CNR – ITC

Lidia Pinti
GENERAL TOPIC
ICT and Smart Construction
Il BIM come strumento di sostegno ai processi di gestione
immobiliare
Short BIO
Lidia Pinti, graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di
Milano with a thesis on the application of BIM and WBS in
project management and construction, she has currently a
research fellow at the ABC Department of Politecnico di
Milano.
She performs research on advanced methods and models
for project documentation development and projects
analysis, systems validation, risk factors, production
planning, cost management and consistency analysis
results. She is also assistant professor in projects economic
evaluation courses at the Politecnico di Milano.
PROJECT
FEASIBILITY
DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT
CONTRUCTION
PLANNING
CONSTRUCTION
EXECUTION
PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT

Alberto Celani
GENERAL TOPIC
Construction site, Aree dismesse, Localization, Real Estate
PhD-Thesis
Authorization and management processes in Real Estate
Investments
Andrea Ciaramella
Short BIO
Master of science in Gestione del Costruito with a thesis
about Unsold Stock of Housing in Lombardia. Intern at
Bayer spa, Regione Lombardia (UO Territorio e Urbanistica,
Spatial and Town Planning about a special projects about
Land Use, Real Estate Market and Infrastructure “PTRA
Valli”), NZTE New Zealand Trade and Enterprise; press
officer and journalist (Press Card Holder since 2000), sport
manager for professional Sport, lecturer at MIP Politecnico
di Milano at Sport Management Training Program,
Consultant for Cyprus delegation at EU Parliament

Silvia Gobbi
GENERAL TOPIC
Built Environment Economy and Management
PhD-Thesis
Italian construction Medium Sized firms
internationalization. Opportunities in Emerging
countries construction markets
Andrea Ciaramella, Gianni Utica
Short BIO
In 2011, degree in Architecture with a thesis about
"Cost analysis, cost estimating and
building specification”. Between 2012 and 2013 she
carried out a research on methods to make an
analytical estimation of construction costs for
construction projects for obtaining the cost of
construction.

Silvia Cerisola
GENERAL TOPIC
Competitiveness, sustainability, and inclusivity of urban
growth and territorial
PhD-Thesis topic
Structural Territorial Changes, Built Environment
Characteristics and its Reaction to the Crisis. Resilience in
Cultural and Creative Districts.
Short BIO
As Research Assistant at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano (LdA), she
contributed to many European Commission research projects
and was also in charge of the Centre databases and their
management. Silvia Cerisola spent one full year in Kenya,
working in international cooperation. MSc in Economics and
Social Sciences in 2006 and a BA in Management of Public
Administration and International Institutions in 2004, both
from Bocconi University.

Giovanni Perucca
GENERAL TOPIC
The goal of the project is to analyse existing methods
and to develop new models for the evaluation of the
social impact of cultural policies.
Measuring the value of culture: theoretical issues and
empirical evidence from districts and urban areas.
Short BIO
PhD in Economics (Università di Milano), he is post-doc
at Politecnico di Milano, Department ABC.
His main research interests are in the field of regional
and urban economics, economics of culture.

Chiara Tagliaro
GENERAL TOPIC
Building quality from the perspective of the users/stakeholders
SUBJECT
Tools and Methods for the Overall Assessment of the Quality of
the Building Product Perceived by Users
Short BIO
Bachelor’s and Master’s in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano,
with a thesis about “S.O.S. Sociale o Sostenibile? La partnership
pubblico-privato incontra i nuovi modi dell’abitare”)
Erasmus project at Technische Universität Wien (Austria) and
Interniship at Lombardy Regional Government Offices (VAS -
Strategic Environmental Assessment), she have been Research
Fellowship at Politecnico di Milano on the topic: “Social Housing:
a possible turning point. Financial instruments for take off of the
field and criteria to evaluate and measure the quality of
products/projects”.

GENERAL TOPIC
Real estate management
Valorizzazione di edifici e patrimoni immobiliari: con-
siderazioni tecniche, economiche e modelli gestionali

FIRST: to make research offer nearer to
(synchronized with) the research demand
DEMAND
OFFER
We train people to research
+
The research produced in their training
But we risk that nobody ask for them
nor their early products, because no
demand is linked to their offer

DEMAND
OFFER
We must go nearer to stakeholders
and let (help) them to express their demand to us

DEMAND
OFFER
Moreover, we must be able
to have a bigger demand !!

SECOND: to give our value back to our
Country that supports (partly) PhD Programs
We are a 1HUNDRIED Candidates program.
The cost of our PhD Program is 2,0 M€/y and the
Country gives us resources only for, about, 1/3 of it.
We need to find 2/3 of the budget each year, but,
from another point of view, we are able to spend
1/3 of our budget on research and training projects
that generate value for us as well as for others
(industry, administrations or other entities).

THIRD: to give our Candidates
the best chances for their future
Bjørn T. Asheim (Stavanger/Lund/Oslo, Norway)
Universities, regions and doctoral education, EUA-CDE
workshop Aix-Marseille, January 2015)
“The expansion of PhD programs implies
that the DOCTORS are not only for
academia but also for and private and public
organisations that need research based
knowledge”.
This make “… doctoral education … a
resource in promoting regional development”
Such a situation is the best way to value all them

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