Francesco Lanza di Scalea

Director, Experimental Mechanics and NDE Laboratory · University of California San Diego · company speakers →

Francesco Lanza di Scalea (Ph.D. 97 Univ. of Palermo-Italy, Post-doc 98-99 Johns Hopkins Univ.) is currently a Professor of Structural Engineering and the Director of the Experimental Mechanics & NDE Laboratory at the University of California San Diego. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of experimental mechanics, non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring. Lanza di Scalea was awarded the UCSD Structural Engineering Teacher of the Year Award twice (2011 and 2018), the Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award (2007), the American Society for Nondestructive Testing Research Fellowship Award (2002, 2006 and 2010), the American Society for Nondestructive Testing Faculty Grant Award (2003), the UCSD Hellman Faculty Fellowship (2000 and 2002), and the Fulbright Scholarship (1995). He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the following journals: Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems, and SEM’s Experimental Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the following societies: American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

15 June 2026 Milan, Italy “Materials and Structural Testing Using Elastic Waves”

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