Italian academic career
From 2018 – Member of the Monitoring Committee for the Excellence Department Project of the Superior University School in Pavia (IUSS)
From 2015 – Decan of the Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic School at the University of Genoa
2011-2013 – Member of Evaluation Expert Group (GEV) for Area 08 – Civil Engineering and Architecture, for the National Evaluation Agency of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
2011-2012 – Coordinator of the Scientific-Disciplinary Civil Engineering and Architecture Area of the University of Genoaty, China
From 2009 – Responsible of the Wind Tunnel Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genoa
2006-2012 – Member of 08 Area “Civil Engineering and Architecture” Committee at Genoa University
From 2015 – Academic Staff member of the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School)
2005-2009 – President of the Teachnig College of the Course of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of the Research Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Genoa University
2005-2009 – Coordinator of the Teachnig College at the Research Doctorate of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Genoa University
2003-2005 – Co-Director of the Second Level University Master in Wind Engineering, co-organised by Genoa University and Milan Politechnic
2002 – Member of the Advisory Board of the first European Degree in Wind Engineering, jointly organised by Genoa University and Milan Polytechnique
From 1999 – Member of the Teachnig College at the Research Doctorate School of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Genoa University
1998-2000 – Member of the Board of Directors of Genoa University
1997-2003 – Director of the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of Genoa University
1992-2001 – Member of the Teaching College at the Research Doctorate School of Structural Engineering at Florence University
From 1991 – Full Professor of Structural Engineering at Genoa University
1990 – Full Professor of Structural Mechanics at Calabria University
1988-1989 – Associate Professor of Construction Technique at Genoa University
1983-1987 – Assistant Professor of Structural Mechanics at Genoa University
1977 – Distinguished Graduate in Civil Engineering at Genoa University
Foreign academic positions
From 2018 – Honorary Professor at the Central South University Changsha, China
From 2016 – Honorary Doctor Honoris Causa at the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania
From 2016 – Honorary Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China
From 2016 – Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Western On-tario, London, Ontario, Canada
2015-2016 – Guest Professor and Lecturer at the Universidad de la Republica of Montevideo, Uruguay
From 2013 – Senior Adviser and Visiting Professor of the first Academic Council of Beijing’s Key Laboratory of Structural Wind Engineering and Urban Wind Environment at the Beijing Jaotong University, Beijing, China
From 2005 – Visiting Professor at the Beijing Jaotong University, Beijing, China
2003-2013 – Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan