Limongelli Maria Giuseppina

Maria Pina Limongelli has 25+ years of experience as a researcher and professor at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI), integrating research, teaching, and institutional service in structural health monitoring (SHM), integrity management, and seismic engineering. She leads the SPM3 group with 17 researchers, has secured major European and national grants, and mentors PhD students and postdocs, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows. She taught Bachelor, Master, and PhD courses, and delivered over 40 invited lectures internationally. She served as Visiting Professor at IFSTTAR and École des Ponts ParisTech, Lise Meitner Fellow at Lund University, and received the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at TUM-IAS. She holds leadership roles in SHM and structural safety associations and contributes to EU policy on decarbonisation. Her work spans vibration-based monitoring, SHM value assessment, and satellite-based remote monitoring.

Career

Academic Appointments

2006 – present: Associate Professor in Structural Analysis and Design, Politecnico di Milano (Qualified Full Professor SSD ICAR09, 2022).

2025 – 2029: Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany2022–2025 – Lisa Meitner Guest Professor, Digital SHM and Integrity Management, Lund Technical University (LTH), Sweden.

1998 – 2020: Visiting Professor/Researcher at IFSTTAR and École des Ponts ParisTech, France; UCSD, USA; NTUA, Greece

Education

1996: PhD in Seismic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

1991: M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, grade 110/110 with honors.

Research

Over the last 25 years, Maria Pina Limongelli has conducted research in structural health monitoring (SHM) and seismic engineering, focusing on vibration-based monitoring and damage detection, value of information from SHM, and satellite-based remote monitoring. Her pioneering work on vibration-based damage identification began during her PhD using dynamic responses of scaled models. She developed the “Interpolation Method,” successfully applied to real damaged bridges (TRL 7) and extended to multiple excitations and structural types, with applications in machine learning and industrial collaborations. She contributed to COST Action TU1406 on SHM value quantification for hazard management and led early research on satellite InSAR monitoring for bridges, included in Italian guidelines. Her work has resulted in high-impact publications, international keynotes, and multiple research grants.

Selected Publications

Limongelli M.P. et al. (2024). Bridge structural monitoring: the Lombardia regional guidelines. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2022.2107023.

Bolognini, M., Marchisotti D. Fagiano L., Limongelli M.P., Zappa E. (2022). Vision-Based Modal Analysis with Multiple Drones. Automation in Construction. DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104550.

Quqa S., Giordano P. F., Limongelli, M. P. (2022). Shared micromobility-driven modal identification of urban bridges. Automation in Construction, 134 DOI:10.1016/j.autcon.2021.104048.

Giordano P.F., Turksezer, Z.I., Previtali M., Limongelli, M.P. (2022). Damage detection on a historic iron bridge using satellite DInSAR data. SHM Journal. Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 0(0) 1–21. DOI: 10.1177/14759217211054350.

Giordano P. F., Limongelli M. P. (2022) The value of structural health monitoring in seismic emergency management of bridges, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2020.1862251.

Limongelli M.P., Siegert D., Merliot E., Waeytens J., Bourquin F., Vidal R., Le Corvec V., Gueguen I., Cottineau L.M., (2016). “Damage detection in a post-tensioned concrete beam – Experimental investigation”, Engineering Structures. Vol. 128, p. 15–25. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.09.017.

Limongelli M.P. (2014). “Seismic health monitoring of an instrumented multistorey building using the Interpolation Method”. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 43, pp 1581-1602. doi: 10.1002/eqe.2411.

Limongelli M.P. (2003). Optimal location of sensors for the reconstruction of seismic responses through spline function interpolation. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 32, pp. 1055-1074.

Benzoni G., Limongelli M.P., Priestley M.N.J. (2002). Assessment of shear forces on bridge abutments. A simplified method. ASCE. Journal of bridge engineering. 8, pp. 29-38. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2003)8:1(29).

Benedetti D., Carydis P., Limongelli M.P. (2001). Evaluation of the seismic response of masonry buildings based on energy functions. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 30, pp. 1061-1081. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.52.

Grants, awards and Honours

2025: Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

2022: Lise Meitner Guest Professorship, Lund University of Technology (LTH), Sweden.

2022 & 2024: Editorial Excellence, Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring.

2019 - 2026: Invitation to 14 keynotes lectures.

2015 - 2026: Invitation to give presentations at more than 40 International Universities.

Community Service

Maria Pina Limongelli serves on key international boards and committees in structural engineering and SHM. She has been a member of the EU DG MOVE Academic Working Group on construction decarbonization (2023–2025), President of EVACES (2023–2025), Vice President and Executive Board member of IABSE (2023–) and Chair of its Italian National Group (2022–2025). She has been Vice President and Executive Board member of ISHMII (2022–2025), Board member and WG3 Reporter of JCSS (2021–2026), and co-convener of TG3.3 on Existing Concrete Structures for fib (2020–).