Professor Amabili holds the Canada Research Chair in Vibrations at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in 2020, the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2021 International Gili-Agostinelli Prize of the “Lincei” Italian National Academy of Sciences. He is the authors of two monographs published by Cambridge University press and a plethora or scientific papers. Dr. Amabili is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Member the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is one of the five members of the Executive Committee of Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME. Amabili is also the chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) and he is the chair of the conference series ICoNSoM (Int. Conf. on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics). He received the Christophe Pierre Research Excellence Award by McGill University in 2015. Among other editorial appointments, he is the Contributing Editor of the International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (Elsevier) and Associate Editor of Journal of Fluids and Structures (Elsevier). His work received broad attention in the media including: the TV show Daily Planet on Discovery Channel, Physics Magazine, Phys.org, Welt der Physik, News Break, News Round, EurekaAlert, The Engineer, News Medical, Medica Magazine, The McGill Tribune, McGill Newsroom.

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2022 Blaise Pascal Medallist in Engineering

In recognition of his contributions to the advances of science in the field of Engineering. Professor Amabili currently is the Canada Research Chair in Vibrations and Fluid-structure Interaction at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His eminent and seminal contributions span over the areas of mechanics of plates and shells, structural dynamics and stability. He is the Author of almost 250 papers published in the best refereed international journals (SCOPUS H-Index=59) and of the worldwide well-known book “Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates” published by Cambridge University Press.