Alessandro Reali (born in 1977) is Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Pavia since 2016. Since 2025 he is the Rector of the University of Pavia. He served as Rector’s Delegate for International Research (2019-2025), as a member of the Regional Forum for Research & Innovation of Regione Lombardia (2023-2025), as the Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture for two terms (2018-2024), and as a member of the Academic Senate (2018-2019). He is specialized in different engineering fields, such as numerical simulation, structural and materials mechanics, biomechanics. During his academic career, he was the principal investigator of many national and international research projects, including a prestigious ERC grant of the European Research Council. For his research achievements he received numerous honors and awards, and was appointed, among others, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology (Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia), Knight Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Clarivate/ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Ambassador of the Technical University of Munich - TUM, ECCOMAS Euler medalist, Panetti-Ferrari medalist (Accademia delle Scienze di Torino), IACM Fellows awardee, Fischer Fellow (TUM Institute for Advanced Study), Finzi awardee (Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere), IACM Argyris awardee, ECCOMAS Zienkiewicz awardee, AIMETA Junior awardee.
More information can be found at: www.unipv.it/alereali.