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Michele Palermo

Dr. Michele Palermo is associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. He completed his MSc (2010) and PhD (2014) in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna. Between 2009-2010 he carried out an internship at the US firm Degenkolb Engineering (Los Angeles, California). In 2011 and 2014 he was visiting researcher at the University of Granada (Spain) and Berkeley (California). His current research interests include seismic engineering and applications of automation and metal additive manufacturing in construction. He is a member of the European TG8 task group: Seismic Behaviour of irregular and complex structures, of the ASTM Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing, and of the European COST action Circular B with a particular commitment to the sustainability of AM technologies in the Construction field. He coordinates the research group on Automation and Additive Manufacturing in Construction at University of Bologna (Additive Manufacturing and Automation in Construction (unibo.it)). He holds three patents related to AM technologies. He is currently involved in several national and European projects dealing with metal additive manufactuirng.

Valentina Alena Girelli

Dr. Valentina Alena Girelli is senior assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. She completed her MSc (2003) in Environmental Engineering and a PhD (2007) in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences at the University of Bologna. In 2006 he carried out an internship at the ETH-Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, in Zurich. In 2019 she got the National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor SC 08/A4 Geomatics. Since 2023 she is Secretary of the Scientific Board of SIFET, the Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Topography. Her current research interests are primarily focused to the application of advanced and integrated geomatic methodologies and techniques in support of efficient procedures for the surveying, modeling, and representation of structures, infrastructure, and land, with emphasis on processes quality assessment. The addressed issues are realized in several case studies within multidisciplinary national and European research projects.