Cusatis Elected ACI Fellow
The honor for Professor Gianluca Cusatis rewards outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research, development, design, construction, or management.
Northwestern Engineering’s Gianluca Cusatis has been elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) in recognition of his contributions to the institute’s work.
Cusatis, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering, earned the honor that rewards outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research, development, design, construction, or management. The formal announcement of Cusatis’s election is scheduled for March 29 at the ACI Spring 2026 Concrete Convention in Rosemont.
Cusatis and his research group develops and tests new models and computational tools to better understand, simulate, and predict the mechanical behavior of quasi-brittle materials such as concrete, timber, rocks, and composites—materials whose complex, multiscale nature challenges traditional mechanics theories.
His current research focuses on the optimization of infrastructure materials to support sustainability and resilience goals by advancing multiscale, multiphysics studies of hardened and fresh concrete, additive manufacturing, and the mechanics of wood and timber.