TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Alumnus Fellow Alessandro Reali was elected as the new Rector of the University of Pavia, Italy, one of the oldest and most prestigious European Universities. Alessandro Reali, born in 1977, is 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).
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 the 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 five times, from 2014 to 2018, he received the distinction of “Highly Cited Researcher” from the ISI Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate institute.