Gianluca Bella

Background

About Gianluca Bella

Dr. Gianluca Bella got his BSc. with honours, MSc. and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He has been visiting researcher at Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear and at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). His research focuses on the static liquefaction, Critical State occurrence, and coupled hydro-mech behaviour of unsaturated soils. He also proposed an innovative aging technique to simulate the natural ionizing radiation of tailings. Dr. Bella served at Politecnico di Torino as teaching assistant at “Rock Mechanics” and “Retaining Structures” MSc courses. He served as supervisor of n.6 BSc/MSc thesis in Geotechnical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino and SUPSI (Switzerland). Since 2018 he works as geotechnical engineer at Pini Group SA (Switzerland) where he is involved in international projects concerning the design of tunnels, foundations, retaining structures, monitoring and slope staility. Since 2024 Dr. Bella serves as lecturer for BSc, post-degree geotech. courses at SUPSI, and he is constantly invited to hold lectures from international Institutions/Academy. Dr. Bella is reviewer for indexed journals and regularly attends - as Author - national and international conferences focussed on soil/rock mechanics with more than 70 publications.