Marco Amabili#
| Membership Number: | 5248 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mcgill.ca/mecheng/marco-amabili |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9340-4474 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Canada Research Chair professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 2010 - present part-time professor, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy
- 2001 - 2008 Associate professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Parma, Italy
- 1999 Visiting Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1997 - 2001 Assistant professor (Ricercatore), Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Parma, Italy
- 1997 Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Award from the National Research Council (CNR), Italy. Supervisor: Professor M.P. Païdoussis
Fields of Scholarship
- Stability
- Plates
- Higher-order shear and thickness deformation theories
- Vibrations
- Nonlinear vibrations
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Vascular biomechanics
- Shell structures
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA)
- 2020 Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2020 Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
- 2020 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
- 2019 Koiter Lecture of the Dutch research school on Engineering Mechanics. The Koiter Lecture honors researchers who have made profound contributions to the field of Engineering Mechanics, and it has a rich history
- 2019 Elected to the Executive Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Applied Mechanics Division
- 2018 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2016 Renewal Canada Research Chair Tier 1, National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada. 1.4 million $
- 2015 Christophe Pierre Research Excellence Award, McGill University, Canada
- 2011 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2009 Canada Research Chair Tier 1, National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada. 1.4 million $
- 1999 Bourse Québécoise d’Excellence, Ministère de l’éducation du Québec, Canada
- 1992 Summa cum laude, Master of Science, University of Ancona, Italy
