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strategic areas: Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Risks
in ‘fragile territories’, protecting health and cultural
heritage, maturing the needs for equity, diversity
and inclusiveness;
• Unite with international university networks, with
the enterprises and with the business world, with
the institutions and the Alumni network; leverage
on strategic partners;
• Expand to larger spaces for teaching, student
and sport facilities, services, green areas,
conceivably by expanding the Bovisa campus, in
cooperation with other international universities
(see box), and the old campus, by remodeling
and enlarging the presence with new infrastructure
and more green areas.

integrated R&D in reply to complex technology A dream? Often the dreams become reality, if we apply
and social challenges, e.g. invest in projects in 5 ourselves to them with persistence!

Ferruccio Resta

Prof. Resta has been recently elected Rector of the • Vibrations control;
Politecnico di Milano, where he has spent most of his • “Energy harvesting” systems, MEMS
academic career. (MicroElectroMechanicalSystem) and Smart
Following his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1992, material systems;
he has been a full professor of Mechanics Applied to • Systems monitoring and diagnostics.
Machinery since 2004, head of the Department of
Mechanics since 2007 and from 2009 member of the His research activity has led to more than 220 scientific
Academic Senate. Prof. Resta has also lead since 2011 the papers. He holds 7 international patents.
effort for the valorization of research and technology transfer.
From 2013, he is the Member of the Scientific Committees In addition, he holds the following appointments:
of the Laboratory for Materials Testing and Construction • Member of the Leadership Committee for the Joint
Sciences and of PoliFab. Research Center on Transportation, established by
Currently, he is the member of the Teaching Staff of the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Trenitalia, Bombardier,
Ph.D. programs for Mechanical Engineering and of the AnsaldoBreda, ABB, Fondazione Politecnico and
Leadership Committees for cooperation agreements Politecnico di Milano.
between the Politecnico di Milano and Artsana, • Board Member of ltalcertifer S.p.A.
Biochemtex, ENI, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Pirelli Tyres, • Member of the Executive Committee of the
Solvay Italy Spa, TCI Telecomunicazioni Italia, Veneranda Cluster Trasporti Italia 2020.
Fabbrica del Duomo . He represents the Politecnico di • Founding Member of “T.I.Ve.T. – Innovative
Milano in PNIcube – Association of Incubators and in the Technologies for Terrestrial Vehicles” and “E-CO”, both
Italian academic business plan competitions; he is also spin-offs of the Politecnico di Milano.
member of the Advisory Board of Polihub, the incubator
of the Politecnico di Milano. Earlier, he was the leader or co-leader of research
His research activities encompass the following areas: projects financed by the European Union, national
• Dynamics and control of engines, engine systems, authorities or by the Lombardy Region, and of
mechanical and electromechanical and structural research contracts between the Politecnico di Milano
systems; and, among others, Trenitalia, RFI, ltalcertifer,
• Automotive and railway mechanics; Brembo, STMicroelectronics, Whirlpool, CIFA, ABB,
• Wind engineering and interactions between LucchiniRS, Eni, GE, City Life, Ansaldo Breda, Expo
structures and fluids; 2015 S.p.A.

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