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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano was established in 2013 and gathers professors and researchers engaged in different research activities. ​
The main goal of the Department consists in promoting interdisciplinary collaboration among the core disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering, addressing sector issues with an integrated approach.​
Our mission is to engage in research, education, and technology transfer in the areas of surveying, geology, geotechnics, hydraulics, hydrology, water resource management, transportation networks, analysis and design of structures and infrastructure, structural and seismic engineering, securing historical structures, hydraulic and maritime constructions, mechanics of materials and structures.

Our Mission

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano was established in 2013 and gathers professors and researchers engaged in different research activities. ​
The main goal of the Department consists in promoting interdisciplinary collaboration among the core disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering, addressing sector issues with an integrated approach.​
Our mission is to engage in research, education, and technology transfer in the areas of surveying, geology, geotechnics, hydraulics, hydrology, water resource management, transportation networks, analysis and design of structures and infrastructure, structural and seismic engineering, securing historical structures, hydraulic and maritime constructions, mechanics of materials and structures.

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University Strategic Plan: Seed Fund awarded to Prof. Valentina Zega

As part of the actions outlined in the University's Strategic Plan to support research, Prof. Valentina Zega has been awarded a Seed Fund of €150,000. The funding is aimed at launching and supporting the research activities developed within the proposal "Frequency...

AMBRA among the winners of the 17th Switch2Product Innovation Challenge

Start-up "AMBRA – calcestruzzo “intelligente” che integra funzioni di monitoraggio nella struttura stessa" developed by Niki Trochoutsou and Prof. Liberato Ferrara, has been selected among the winners of the 17th edition of the Switch2Product Innovation Challenge,...

Lucia Castellani selected for the IDEA League PhD Grant

Lucia Castellani, PhD candidate in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, has been selected for the IDEA League PhD Grant. The grant will allow her to spend three months in 2026 at ETH Zurich as part of her doctoral research activities. Lucia is an engineer...

Professor Umberto Perego has been elected President of AIMETA (Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)

Professor Umberto Perego has been elected President of AIMETA (Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) for the 2026–2029 term, officially taking office on January 30th following the elections held in December. AIMETA is a long-standing institution...

Linghzi Chen has won the Top Prize Award – 2026 Piezo MEMS Design Challenge

The ISSG PhD candidate Linghzi Chen has won the Top Prize Award as part of the 2026 Piezo MEMS Design Challenge, an international initiative sponsored by the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and STMicroelectronics. The awarded project, titled “Novel Subwavelength...

Andrea Marcucci has received the Young Research Prof. Surendra P. Shah Award 2026

Andrea Marcucci, PhD graduate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received the Young Research Prof. Surendra P. Shah Award 2026 on Technologies for Low-Carbon and Lean Construction for his dissertation entitled An Advanced Tunnel...

Professor Liberato Ferrara Among the Fellows of the American Concrete Institute

Professor Liberato Ferrara has been elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), leading global authority for the development, dissemination, and adoption of consensus-based standards in the broad domain of concrete materials and structural applications,...

Maria Gloria Di Chiano awarded the Hydrology Best Paper Award

The international scientific journal Hydrology (MDPI) has awarded the Hydrology Best Paper Award to the paper “Probabilistic Approach to Tank Design in Rainwater Harvesting Systems”, authored by Maria Gloria Di Chiano, Mariana Lobo Marchioni, Anita Raimondi, Umberto...

Afan De Rivera Prize: Award to Panagiotis Asaridis for His PhD Thesis

Panagiotis Asaridis has been awarded as the winner of the 11th Edition of the Afan De Rivera Prize for his PhD thesis in the field of hydraulic reclamation and soil protection, titled “Flood Damage Assessment to Power Grids.” The award recognizes the best theses...

‘Green’, Coin-Sized Sensors from the MetaVEH Project for 6G and Seismic Monitoring

‘Green’, energy-independent sensors as small as a coin have been developed for wireless networks and real-time monitoring. These are the results of the MetaVEH (Metamaterial Enabled Vibration Energy Harvesting) project, which has just ended, following funding of €4...

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