Phd in STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

email: domenico.gaudio@uniroma1.it
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building: RM031 (edificio centrale)
room: 315

Domenico Gaudio is currently Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Geotechnics at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, where he also acted as Untenured Assistant Professor (2021-2024) and where he took both his Master (2013) and PhD (2017) degrees. Domenico is also currently vice-president of the Geotechnical Committee at the Chartered Engineers Association of Rome, Italy. His research activities are currently on numerical and centrifuge modelling of dynamic soil-structure interaction, with particular reference to the seismic behaviour of foundations of offshore wind turbines and long-span bridge and viaducts. Over last 6 years his numerical results are being validated against dynamic centrifuge tests performed at University of Cambridge, where he was appointed as Research Associate (2019-2020; PI: Prof. Giulia Viggiani) and Academic Visitor (2023), as well as Visiting Researcher at TU Delft in the framework of the GeoLab project (3rd Call). He also worked at Politecnico di Milano (Feb.-Apr. 2018; Prof. Claudio di Prisco) on the numerical modelling of flow-like landslides with the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. He recently acted as External Consultant for Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), Dublin, UK (2023). He is currently leader of the course Foundation and Earth Retaining Structures (9 ECTS) for the second-year student of the Master Degree in Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering and of the course Geotechnical Engineering (9 ECTS) for the third-year student of the Bachelor Degree in Sustainable Building Engineering. Since 2014 he has been tutoring students for the courses Foundations and Earth Retaining Structures and Deep Excavations and Tunnelling in Urban Environment, both taught by Prof. Sebastiano Rampello for Master Students in Civil Engineering. He was recently awarded the IGS Student Award 2020 by the International Geosynthetics Society and the Italian Academic Qualification as Full Professor (11/07/2025) and Associate Professor in Geotechnics (08/02/2023).