Denis Benasciutti received a MSc degree in Materials Engineering in 2001 and a PhD in 2005 from the University of Ferrara, Italy. In 2006, he attended a Master in "Welding Engineering", after which he was certified as European/International Welding Engineer (EWE/IWE) by the Italian Institute of Welding (IIS), Genoa, Italy. After a period (2006-2015) as Assistant Professor at the University of Udine, Italy, he moved to the University of Ferrara where he is currently Associate Professor. He teaches, or has taught, courses on Machine Design, Mechanical Drawing, Finite Element Method. His main research interests are: structural integrity with random uniaxial and multiaxial loadings, cyclic plasticity models, vibration energy harvesting with piezoelectric devices. He authored 1 book ("Fatigue analysis of random loadings. A frequency-domain approach", ‎ LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012; ISBN: 978-3-659-12370-2), 2 book chapters, and more than 100 scientific publications in international journals and congresses, most of which are indexed in Scopus and WoS databases.