Filippo Berto

He has been visiting professor in prestigious Stanford University (USA) where is collaborating with Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory. He is also holding some honorary chair professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong) and Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa). In 2021, Filippo Berto became a Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University through the Changjiang Scholars Program.

Filippo Berto has a major role in the Italian Group of Fracture being vice-president since 2019 and co-editor in chief of the associated journal.

He is chairman of the technical committee ESIS TC15 on Structural Integrity of additive manufactured components of European Structural Integrity Society. Filippo Berto received several awards and distinctions, such as Award of Merit (2018, first and only Italian awarded up to now) and Wohler medal (2020, first and only Italian awarded up to now) from the European Structural Integrity Society, Paolo Lazzarin IGF Medal (2019) from the Italian Group of Fracture, Stephen Timoshenko Fellow (2018) given by University of Stanford (USA), CAPOCACCIA award (2013) given by AIAS (Italy). Filippo Berto is part of the Top Italian Scientists Engineering (Italy).

Filippo Berto is international chair in mechanics of materials, mechanical metallurgy, fracture mechanics, fatigue, and structural integrity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, since 2016. He is well known for his works on fracture mechanics and fatigue design for which he received several prestigious international awards. He was professor of machine design at the University of Padua, Italy, between 2006 and 2015. In 2003, Filippo Berto is graduated in Industrial Engineering at the University of Padua (Italy). After that, he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florence (Italy), in 2006.

He is editor-in-chief or Editor of several scientific journals, such as, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, Material Design & Processing Communications and Materials MDPI. In addition, he belongs to the editorial board of several leading scientific journals in the area of fatigue, fracture and structural integrity, such as, Materials & Design, International Journal of Fatigue, Safety Science, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Advanced Engineering Materials, Polymer Testing, Strength of Materials, among others. He is the founder, the head and, scientific leader of the mechanical testing laboratory at the Department of mechanical and industrial engineering in NTNU that he has built since 2016 attracting financial support from different sources.

As technical Chair of TC15 is also the founder of the series of European conferences on additive manufacturing ESIAM. He is also one of the founder of the ESIS TC18 on Structural Integrity of Welded Joints and treasurer of the same TC. Besides, Dr. Filippo Berto is in the list of 2% top scientist released by Stanford University. In Europe, he is among the first twenty positions in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Transports and among the first 3 positions dealing with fracture and fatigue problems. He is a top author in the last 5 years (2015–2020) in several topics such as (V-notches, Strain Energy Density, T-Stress) in Scopus, where he is also among the first three top authors all-time in fatigue. Dr. Berto has educated more than 20 PhDs students and more than 200 master students. He is among the top reviewers and top authors in 2020 in the field of structural integrity.

Filippo Berto (born 12 February 1978) is an Italian professor and engineer.