Dr. Edoardo Mazza has been a Full Professor of Mechanics at the Institute of Mechanical Systems in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering since 2010. He studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and received his Dr. sc. techn. degree at ETH in 1997. For his dissertation on the Mechanical Behaviour of Micrometer Sized Structures, he was awarded the ETH medal. He has been working in the industry from 1997 to 2001. At Alstom Power, he was group leader in the steam turbine R&D department and was responsible for the mechanical analysis of stationary and rotatory components. In 2002, he was appointed as Assistant Professor, and in 2006 as Associate Professor of Mechanics at ETH Zurich. Since 2006, he has also led the laboratory “Experimental Continuum Mechanics” of Empa, the Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. From 2016 until 2020 he has been president of ETH lecturers’ conference (KdL). From 2021 until 2023, he has been Head of Department of D-MAVT, the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department of ETH Zurich.

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