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Federico Ciardo

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech A114
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-3201Email Federico Ciardo

Website

Research Website

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Centers

Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

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Departments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. in Mechanics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

M.Sc. in Structural Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Geomechanics; Applied mechanics for geophysical, geomechanical and engineering

problems; Computational mechanics.

Significant Recognition

• EPFL Doctoral Program Thesis distinction award - EDME Mechanics (2020).

Selected Publications

• Ciardo, Federico; Viesca, Robert C., Nonlinear stability analysis of slip in a single degree of freedom elastic system with frictional evolution laws spanning ageing to slip, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2025).
• Ciardo, Federico; Lecampion, Brice, Injection-Induced Aseismic Slip in Tight Fractured Rocks, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2023).