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Nicola Maria Pugno (born 4 January 1972) is an Italian mechanician, structural and materials scientist, mechanical engineer and physicist,[1][2] holding PhDs in fracture mechanics and in biology. He is a full professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento, founder of the Mechano-X Labs[3] (previously at the Polytechnic University of Turin, founder of the Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics "Giuseppe Maria Pugno"[4][5]) and part-time professor of materials science at Queen Mary University of London.[6] He is also Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford.[7]

He has been appointed to several advisory and scientific committees, including the technical and scientific committee[8] of the Italian Space Agency, and has served as a plenary speaker at various international workshops, events and conferences, including Falling Walls,[9] the World Economic Forum[10][11] and the European Parliament,[12] invited by the European Research Council (ERC), as well as the opening plenary speaker at the International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2020+1).[13] He is an editorial board member of several international journals and has been appointed as the first field chief editor of Frontiers in Materials (IF 3.5).[14]

Pugno has published a multitude of papers in international journals.[15] For his scientific contributions in nanomechanics, bioinspiration, fracture mechanics and adhesion (e.g., proposals for high-strength (hierarchical) bio-inspired materials, high-toughness (knotted) fibers, high-strength nanotube/graphene cables (and composites), "bionicomposites" such as spider silk spun by spiders fed with nanomaterials, bio-inspired (hierarchical) metamaterials, tunable friction surfaces, superadhesive or antiadhesive (e.g., anti-ice) surfaces, nanoelectromechanical systems modelling, multiple peeling theories, Quantized/Finite Fracture Mechanics, etc.), he has received several awards. These include the first edition of the GiovedìScienza Prize in 2012 (for both research and science popularization[16]), the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize (IOM3)[17] in 2017, the Humboldt Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)[18] in 2022 and The Modesto Panetti and Carlo Ferrari International Prize and Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of Turin) in 2026[19][20]. Since 2011, he has been awarded several grants from the European Union, mainly within the Excellent Science pillar — including ERC grants[21] — for both fundamental science[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and high-tech transfer,[30][31][32][33][34] which he is developing for applications in various high-tech industries.

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  1. ↑ "Nicola Pugno - Top Italian Scientist in Engineering". topitalianscientists.org.
  2. ↑ "Nicola M Pugno - AD Scientific Index 2025". www.adscientificindex.com.
  3. ↑ "Nicola Pugno - Solid and Structural Mechanics Group - University of Trento". pugno.dicam.unitn.it.
  4. ↑ "DISEG - Laboratorio Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics". DISEG.
  5. ↑ "MUSEO VIRTUALE - Gli ingegneri - Giuseppe Maria Pugno". areeweb.polito.it.
  6. ↑ "Prof Nicola Pugno". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  7. ↑ "Home". staff.admin.ox.ac.uk.
  8. ↑ "Samantha Cristoforetti chiama il Muse". Trentino Cultura.
  9. ↑ "Nicola Pugno | Falling Walls". falling-walls.com.
  10. ↑ "Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012". ERC.
  11. ↑ "Nicola Pugno". World Economic Forum.
  12. ↑ "ERA Portal Austria – ERC celebrates 5,000th top researcher funded". era.gv.at.
  13. ↑ "Plenary Lecturers | ICTAM 2020". www.ictam2020.org.
  14. ↑ "Frontiers in Materials | Editorial board". www.frontiersin.org.
  15. ↑ "Nicola M. Pugno". scholar.google.it.
  16. ↑ "GiovedìScienza: la scienza in diretta settimana per settimana - torinoscienza.it". archivio.torinoscienza.it.
  17. ↑ "Professor Nicola Pugno wins the IOM3's Griffith Medal & Prize". QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science.
  18. ↑ Tomassetti, Giuseppe (November 23, 2022). "Humboldt Research Award 2022 a Nicola Pugno".
  19. ↑ "Panetti Prize past winners".
  20. ↑ "Panetti and Ferrari Prize 2026 to Nicola Pugno and recent winners". June 15, 2026.
  21. ↑ "A new European research project in Trento | UniTrento Press Room". pressroom.unitn.it.
  22. ↑ "Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials | BIHSNAM Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  23. ↑ "Advanced Quantized FRActure MEchanics models of ice and snow for GLObal Warming risk mitigation | FRAMEGLOW Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  24. ↑ "Bio-Inspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials | BOHEME Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  25. ↑ "Biofunctionalised Electroconducting Microfibres for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury | Neurofibres Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  26. ↑ "Ramp Up Phase Highlights from the Graphene Flagship". Graphene Flagship.
  27. ↑ "Graphene-based disruptive technologies | GrapheneCore1 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  28. ↑ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 2 | GrapheneCore2 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  29. ↑ "Graphene Flagship Core Project 3 | GrapheneCore3 Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  30. ↑ "SILKENE: Bionic silk with graphene or other nanomaterials spun by silkworms | SILKENE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  31. ↑ "REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces | REPLICA2 Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  32. ↑ "KNOTOUGH: Super-tough knotted fibers | KNOTOUGH Project | Fact Sheet | FP7". CORDIS | European Commission.
  33. ↑ "acouStIc metamateriaL for MRI noisE caNCEllation | SILENCE Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
  34. ↑ "Bioinspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials for Railways | BioMetaRail Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission.
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