Today, Alessandro Reali takes over as new rector of the University of Pavia. He has been a Full Professor of Civil Engineering (Mechanics of Solids and Structures) at Pavia since 2016.
In 2015, he became a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study. In the Focus Group Computational Mechanics, he collaborated with his host Prof. Ernst Rank (Computation in Engineering, TUM).
In 2019, he was honored as a TUM Ambassador by TUM, recognizing his collaboration and achievements connected to the university. The following year, he was awarded the "Euler Medal", on a biennial basis, by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) for outstanding and sustained contributions to the area of computational solid and structural mechanics. Prof. Reali's scientific production counts about 200 articles in international journals, with more than 17 thousand citations and an h-index above 60. Among his awards: in 2017, he was appointed Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic), and from 2014 to 2018, he received the distinction of “Highly Cited Researcher” five times from the ISI Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Institute.