ESR2: "Nano Asphalt" - Nanosensor technology for road pavements

Ciao, Hello, Salut! The last time I posted I was very excited because I was going on holidays after a great experience at the 7WCSCM (http://www.7wcscm.com/Data/List/Welcome). If this is the first time you read my blog or you don’t remember you can have a look to my previous post. I've just found this picture of me during my presentation at the conference, and I want to share it with you. 😄 Well, now I’m not exactly in the same mood. As the title says at almost the end of my first year of PhD it’s time to make a point and review what I’ve done so far: is it a good work? Is it original? Is there something more I should have done? Where and what can I improve? These are questions that I’m asking myself frequently in the last days. A PhD is not just working hard, your work has to provide something original to the scientific community. I’m learning that the above mentioned questions are really common among PhD students, especially at the end of each year. Apa

Ciao! Welcome back on my blog, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I want to tell you about the opportunity I had to take part in the 7 th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring. It sounds great, right? And actually it was!     The 7WCSCM, held every four years, is aiming at promoting advanced structural control and monitoring technology for a variety of civil, mechanical, aerospace and energy systems. It’s a premier leading conference, under the auspices of the International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring (IACSM). The precedent conferences have been held in Pasadena - USA (1994), Kyoto - Japan (1998), Como - Italy (2002), La Jolla - USA (2006), Tokyo - Japan (2010) and Barcelona - Spain (2014).   This year it took place in Qingdao (China) from the 22 nd to the 25 th of July and it hosted 16 keynote speakers and 39 special sessions with more than 500 abstracts submitted.  I got the opportunity to present my research within the