Every structure — a bridge, a church, a historic building — constantly communicates its condition through the way it vibrates, deforms, and responds to everyday loading. My work is about listening to this "language" with rigorous scientific tools, turning it into information that supports real decisions on safety, conservation, and maintenance.

I design and carry out structural health monitoring (SHM) systems and operational modal analysis (OMA) campaigns, using sensor networks (accelerometers, strain gauges, inclinometers, and so on) to identify a structure's real dynamic characteristics — natural frequencies, modal shapes, damping — based solely on ambient vibrations induced by traffic, wind, or microseismicity. No artificial excitation is needed, and the structure's normal use is never disrupted. Data collected over time makes it possible to detect changes that may signal damage, deterioration, or shifts in boundary conditions, often long before they become visible to the naked eye, and to validate or calibrate finite element models against the structure's actual behaviour.

On historic buildings, churches, towers, and masonry structures, where invasive interventions are unacceptable and construction history is often poorly documented, OMA is a non-destructive diagnostic tool par excellence, allowing the real behaviour of the structure to be understood, local vulnerabilities to be identified in arches, vaults, and towers, and targeted strengthening interventions to be guided while respecting the material and historical integrity of the asset. On bridges, viaducts, and strategic infrastructure, I provide continuous monitoring systems that move beyond fixed-interval periodic inspection, in line with the risk-based approach of the Italian Bridge Guidelines; dynamic monitoring becomes an integral part of seismic and structural vulnerability assessment, helping to optimize maintenance resources and ensure the safety of infrastructure that is often aging and subject to increasing loads.

Each project begins with a site inspection and an analysis of the structure's specific critical issues, continues with the design of the most suitable sensor network, and concludes with data processing, using techniques such as Stochastic Subspace Identification, and the delivery of clear technical reports, usable both for design purposes and for ongoing safety management. 

data manent, verba volant — the data remains, words fly away