Giovanni Solari
Awards

International Prizes and Awards

2018 Appointed Honorary Professor at the Central South University Changsha, China.
2017 Winner of the 2017 Robert H. Scanlan Medal awarded by the Engineering Me-chanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, “for his outstanding contributions to wind engineering and their applications in structural mechanics”.
2017 Awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) with an Advanced Grant (AdG) 2016 for the Project THUNDERR, “Detection, simulation, modelling and loading of thunderstorm outflows to design wind-safer and cost-efficient struc-tures”: “The PI is a world-renowned expert in wind engineering as illustrated by many awards, invited lectures and successful national and international research projects. Moreover, he has an excellent international network of which several uni-versities are involved in the present project. The panel considers that bringing the knowledge of thunderstorm outflows to the same level as extra-tropical cyclones is ground-breaking. Moreover, the panel highly valued the research methodology, being a combination of wind tunnel experiments, full scale tests on towers, CFD modelling, evaluation of structural response and code development. If successful, the project will have an important impact on the future design of wind-loaded structures”
2016 Awarded by the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania with the honorary Doctor Honoris Causa “as a sign of appreciation for outstanding contributions to the development of wind engineering; for a prestigious academic career, during which he contributed to the formation of many successful engineers and researchers; as a recognition of professional excellence proven by the large number of research projects and complex technical studies on the response of structures to wind action, especially for his vital contribution in establishing the so-lution to secure the opera ‘The Endless Column’ by Constantin Brâncu?i; as an ap-preciation for the support of the international engineering community through ac-tive involvement in the development of international technical committees of na-tional and international standards and professional associations; in recognition of the profound friendship, cooperation and support he provided to the academic and scientific community of the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucha-rest”.
2016 Appointed Honorary Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China.
2015 Awarded by the International Association for Wind Engineering with the IAWE Key as "IAWE President 2003-2007".
2014 Winner of the Raymond C. Reese Research Prize awarded by the Structural Engi-neering Institute (SEI) of the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) for the paper “Closed-form prediction of the alongwind-induced fatigue of structures” as published in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering.
2013 Elected as Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) by actions of the Board of Governors of EMI
2013 Winner of the Otto H.G. Flachsbart Medal awarded by the Windtechnologische Gesellschaft e.V. Germany – Austria - Switzerland, “for his pioneering scientific research work, for fundamental knowledge in the science of wind engineering and for his engagements for the Eurocode and in the European African Wind Engi-neering Association”. Before him, this medal was awarded to only Alan G. Dav-enport (2000) and Jack E. Cermak (2007).
2011 Winner of the 2011 Alan G. Davenport Medal awarded by the International Association for Wind Engineering, “for his many contributions to the modelling of dynamic wind load effects on structures with applications to building structures”.
2006

Winner of the 2006 Jack E. Cermak Medal awarded by the Structural Engineering Institute and the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, “for outstanding contributions to scientific research in wind engineering and to its practical applications”.

2000 Awarded by the American Association for Wind Engineering, “in appreciation for the many contributions to the development of the ASCE-7 wind load standard”

Other Recognitions

2018 Awarded by Safety Science and Elsevier with a Certificate of Outstanding Con-tribution in Reviewing “in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2018 Shortlisted for the 2018 Best Research Paper prize in Structures, Elsevier, for the contribution: “Wind Loading of Structures: Framework, Phenomena, Tools and Codification”, by Giovanni Solari, Structures, 12, 265–285 (2017).
2017 Awarded by Engineering Structures and Elsevier with a Certificate of Outstand-ing Contribution in Reviewing “in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2017 Awarded by the Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics and Elsevier with a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing “in recogni-tion of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2017 Awarded by Sustainable Cities and Society and Elsevier with a Certificate of Out-standing Contribution in Reviewing “in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2014 Awarded by Engineering Structures and Elsevier with a Certificate of Outstand-ing Contribution in Reviewing “in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2014 Awarded by the Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics and Elsevier with a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing “in recogni-tion of the contributions made to the quality of the journal”.
2013 Awarded by the Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics and Elsevier with a Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing “in recognition of an out-standing contribution to the quality of the journal”.