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General Information

Full Name Tommaso Grossi
Date of Birth 5th October 1992
Languages Italian, English, German, Spanish

Experience

  • 2025 - now
    Assistant Professor
    Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • 2023 - 2025
    Research Fellow
    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • 2020 - 2025
    Member of the Board of Experts - Collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa
    Italian Ministry of Justice
  • 2023
    Visiting Researcher
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
  • 2020
    R&D Engineer
    Scuderia AlphaTauri F1 Team, Faenza, Italy
  • 2017 - 2020
    R&D Engineer
    Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 Team, Faenza, Italy
  • 2016 - 2017
    Autonomous Driving Systems Specialist
    Maserati, Modena, Italy
  • 2016
    FE Analyst
    Ducati, Borgo Panigale (BO), Italy
  • 2014
    Visiting Researcher
    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena (CA), USA

Awards

  • 2025
    Best Paper Award
    American Society for Metals
    • Awarded for the paper When confidence intervals are too confident: how inverse methods fool us and how to fix them, presented at the 12th International Conference on Residual Stresses in Detroit, MI
  • 2023
    Best Paper Award
    Society of Experimental Mechanics
    • Awarded for the paper Fast Computation of Calibration Matrices in Relaxation Methods Inverse Solutions Through Substructuring, presented at the SEM 2023 Annual conference in Orlando, FL
  • 2023
    Best Paper Award in Experimental Solid Mechanics
    Selection Committee during the 2nd Workshop on Experimental and Computational Mechanics
    • Awarded for the paper Analysis on the determination of Chaboche and Bouc-Wen parameters for a quenched and tempered steel
  • 2022
    Best Paper Award
    Society of Experimental Mechanics
    • Awarded for the paper On the Combined Effects of Hole Depth Steps and Tikhonov Regularization on Hole-Drilling Measurements, presented at the SEM 2022 Annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2011
    Alfiere del Lavoro
    President of the Italian Republic
    • A certificate of merit conferred to the 25 best Italian students
  • 2011
    Scuola Normale Superiore
    Pisa, Italy
    • Winner of a student position in Mathematics (declined)
  • 2011
    Pirro Liguori scholarship
    University of Pisa
    • Winner of a five-year scholarship (9k€) for Engineering studies

Organizer/Chair at conferences

  • 2025
    12th International Conference on Residual Stresses
    Detroit (MI), US
    • Organizer of Symposium Quantifying uncertainty in residual stress measurements: a cross-method perspective
  • 2023
    Annual Conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics
    Orlando (FL), US
    • Session 41 & Session 47: Inverse Methodologies and Uncertainties in the Identification of Residual Stresses and Material Properties

Speaker at conferences

  • 2026
    AISTech2026
    Pittsburgh (PA), US
  • 2025
    12th International Conference on Residual Stresses
    Detroit (MI), US
  • 2024
    11th European Conference on Residual Stresses
    Prague, CZ
  • 2023
    Annual Conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics
    Orlando (FL), US
  • 2022
    11th International Conference on Residual Stresses
    Nancy, FR
  • 2022
    Annual Conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics
    Pittsburgh (PA), US
  • 2022
    38th Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
    Poros, GR
  • 2022
    14th International Conference on Shot Peening
    Milano, IT
  • 2022 - 2025
    Congresso AIAS
    Italy (Firenze, Napoli, Genova, Padova)

Invited talks

  • 2025
    Department of Industrial Engineering
    Università di Trento
    • Operator-learning algorithms in finite-element analyses: past simulations accelerate future solutions
  • 2024
    ConScience: Towards a Responsible Use of Machine Learning
    Università di Pisa
    • No more mesh refinements through AI: Predicting plastic fields around notches from coarse elastic data
  • 2023
    Annual Conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics
    Orlando (FL), US
    • Non-parametric identification of stress-strain curves through spherical indentation
  • 2022
    Department of Mathematics
    Università di Genova
    • The inverse problem of relaxation methods for determining residual stresses in mechanical components
  • 2021
    Poliferie
    No-profit organization
    • AI and humans: state of the situation

Education

  • 2023
    PhD
    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
    • Industrial Engineering
  • 2016
    Master of Science
    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
    • Mechanical Engineering
  • 2014
    Bachelor of Science
    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
    • Mechanical Engineering
  • 2011 - 2016
    Honorary Student
    Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
    • Mechanical Engineering
  • 2012
    Master of Arts
    Istituto Musicale P. Mascagni, Livorno, Italy
    • Piano Performance