Domenico Lombardi

Biography

I am a lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, leader of the Civil Engineering Teaching Group, and Deputy Director of Research (RGI) of the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering. 

I graduated with first class honours cum laude in Civil Engineering from the University of Sannio (Italy). In 2008, I moved to the University of Bristol (UK) to finish my postgraduate studies, first with an MSc in Offshore Engineering and then with a PhD in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.  In 2013, I joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yamaguchi University (Japan) as a researcher.

I am author of over 20 publications focusing on different civil engineering problems, including long-term performance of offshore wind turbines and design of pile-supported structures in liquefiable soils. My main research interests are in geotechnics and structural dynamics, related to problems of offshore and earthquake engineering.

I am a co-author of a textbook entitled "Fundamentals of Engineering Mathematics", published by the Institution of Civil Engineers, ICE Publishing. The book aims at bridging the gap between school mathematics and a first year engineering degree, providing students with an essential foundation of skills that will be valuable throughout their academic career and beyond (see also ICE Book Shop).

As part of my academic life, I have been actively involved in the knowledge transfer process by delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses tailored for the offshore industry. I also serve on the technical programme committee of the International Society of Geotechnique, Materials and Environment (GEOMATE) and advisory committee of the International Conference on Offshore Renewable Energy (Glasgow, September 12-14, 2016). Recently, I organized a special session on “Methods and modern technologies in nearshore-offshore surveying and seafloor geotechnics” within the 1st International Workshop on Metrology for Geotechnics (Italy, March 17-18, 2016).

Recent and future events:

April 2017 - (Speaker & Instructor) "Seismic performance of a typical nuclear power plant in the UK: A probabilistic risk analysis approach", Manchester, UK

April 2017 - (Speaker) "Lessons learnt from recent earthquakes: the shaky inequality", Engineers Without Borders, Manchester, UK

March 2017 - (Speaker) "Recent advances in soil liquefaction and seismic perfomance of structures", Tongji University, Shanghai, China. http://geotec.tongji.edu.cn/show.aspx?info_lb=326&flag=190&info_id=1376

February 2017 - (Speaker) "The EEFIT Reconnaissance Mission to the August – October 2016 earthquake sequence of Central Italy". Institution of Structural Engineers, London, UK.

February 2017 - (Speaker & Chair) "First International Conference on Nuclear Power Plants; Structures, Risk & Decommissioning", Croydon, UK.  

February 2017 - "UK-China-India Workshop of Seismic Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants" in Guildford, UK.

June 2016 - (Speaker) - "Dynamic behaviour of pile-supported structures in liquefiable soils". Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.

June 2016 -  "Developments in Earthquake Geotechnics". Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

May 2016 - (Speaker): "Effects of soil-structure interaction on seismic performance of piled foundations in liquefied soils". City University of London, London, UK.

March 2016 - (Chair): "Methods and modern technologies in nearshore-offshore surveying and seafloor geotechnics" at 1st International Workshop on Metrology for Geotechnics, Benevento, Italy.

November 2015 - (Speaker & Chair): "5th International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment", Osaka, Japan.