Angelo Luongo was born in Naples on 12/04/1954; he is full Professor of ‘Solid and Structural Mechanics’ at University of L’Aquila (Italy). (Italy).

1978: degree in Civil Engineering at “La Sapienza” University(Rome)
1978-1981: Fellowship of the Italian National Research Council, CNR
1981-1988: Assistant Professor at “La Sapienza” University
1988-1990: Associate Professor at L’Aquila University
1990-date: Full Professor at L’Aquila University
1989-1990: President of the educational committee of the Engineering Faculty of L’Aquila
1994-2003: Head of Department of Civil Engineering (DISAT)
1997-2003: member of the University Senate of L'Aquila
1989-2000: member of the doctorate school of ‘Structural Mechanics’ of La Sapienza and L'Aquila Universities associated.
2000: Co-Founder of the Master Course of “Mathematical Engineering” of University of L’Aquila.
2000-date: Co-Founder and Member of the doctorate school of ‘Mathematical Models for Engineering' of University of L’Aquila.
2007-date: Pro-Rector for relationships with industries.
2007-date: Associate editor of the International Journal ‘Mathematical Problems in Engineering'.
2007-2009: Coordinator of the Scientific European Consortium SICON, financed by the EU
2007-2008: Coordinator of an international scientific team financed by EU (INTAS Project)
2010-date: Founder and President of the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, “M&MOCS”.
2010-date: Head of the ‘Laboratory of Testing on Material and Structures’, located in Cisterna di Latina.

Author of about 150 scientific papers, most of which (about seventy) published on International Journals. The papers deal with problems in the following fields:

• Linear free oscillations of elastic suspended cables;
• Nonlinear oscillations of one dimensional, elastic, structural systems (wires, beams);
• Critical and post-critical behavior of thin-walled beams;
• Nonlinear interaction among nearly-simultaneous buckling modes;
• Nonlinear dynamics of wires orbiting systems;
• Localization phenomena in Dynamics and Buckling;
• Sensitivity analysis of defective and nearly-defective dynamical systems;
• Aero-elastic stability phenomena in linear and nonlinear systems;
• Passive control of aero-elastic oscillations by Tuned Mass Dampers;
• Perturbation methods for multiple-bifurcations analysis of multi-parameter systems;
• Dynamics and buckling of linear and nonlinear spatially-periodic systems;
• Dynamics of strings and beams with travelling masses.

Co-author of five educational and scientific books, on Continuum Mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Elastic Stability. Editor of a scientific book (‘Recent Research Developments in Sound & Vibration’, ISBN:81-7736-186-4, 2003).
He is central coordinator of an European network (Italy, France, Russia, Siberia) for research on ‘Advances of Stability Theory with Mechanical Applications’, to be developed in 2007-08, in the framework of an INTAS program.

Invited lectures at the following conferences:

1. PHYSCON 2011, Minisymposium on ‘Stability Problems with Applications in Physics and Mechanics’, Leon, Spain, 2011.
2. DINCON'2010 - 9th Brazilian Conference on Dynamics, Control and Their Applications, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Brazil, 2010.
3. CIMS2008 - Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, University of Sydney, Australia,2008.
4. ENOC 2002- 4th European Nonlinear Oscillations Conference Moscow 2002, Russia

1. Coordinator of the Scientific European Consortium SICON (Marie-Curie Actions), financed by the EU (MSCF-CT-2006-046177), cooperating in the field of Stability, Identification and Control in Nonlinear structural dynamics: a series of courses developed with the partnership of: University of L’Aquila, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Liege, Wien University of Technology, National Technical University of Athens, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, Vaulx-En-Velin (2007-9)
2. Co-organizer and teacher of advanced educational courses for young researchers (“Stability of equilibrium”, Rome 1988; “Nonlinear Dynamics”, Rome 1990) and professional refresher courses (“Seismic Dynamics”, Messina 1991, Pescara 1996).

1. European coordinator of the Research Project ‘Advances of Stability Theory with Mechanical Application’, in partnership with University of Lyon-ENTP, Moscow Lomonosov University and Siberia Academy of Sciences, granted by EU-INTAS, N. 06-10000013-9019, (2007-8).
2. Responsible of biennial grants supplied by the MIUR, Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008.