Maurizio Tira

Director

General Information

Born in Cremona on 9 July 1961

Degree (pre-reform system) in Civil Engineering for Land Protection and Territorial Planning (Politecnico di Milano)
Postgraduate Specialisation Course in Environmental Impact Assessment (Politecnico di Milano)

Full Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Brescia, where he teaches Urban Planning and Risk Mitigation on the MSc programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Main Scientific and Academic Qualifications

  • Delegate of the Italian Government to the Transport Research Committee of the International Transport Forum (OECD) (Paris)
  • Member of the Technical and Scientific Commission for the identification of the sole national site for the construction of the national nuclear waste repository – ISIN
  • Member of the Board of the European University Association (EUA), the largest network of universities within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) (Brussels)
  • Expert and Council Member of the European Transport Safety Council (Brussels)
  • Delegate of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) in the EU DG MOVE Expert Group on Urban Mobility (Brussels)
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the European University Association – Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE), the EHEA university network for the monitoring and development of doctoral education (Geneva)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Magna Charta Observatory, the international reference body for monitoring the Bologna Process (Bologna) 
     

He is also:

  • Non-resident Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
  • Resident Corresponding Member of the Istituto Lombardo – Academy of Sciences and Letters (Milan)
  • Past President and Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU)
  • Past President and Member of the Governing Council of the National Centre for Urban Studies (CeNSU) at the National Council of Engineers (Rome)
  • Director of the Centre for Applied Seismology and Structural Dynamics Research (CeSiA) at the University of Brescia
  • Member of the Academic Board of the DICACIM Doctoral Programme at the University of Brescia 
     

He has also been:

Member of the Academic Board of the National Doctorate in Sustainable Development and Climate Change (IUSS Pavia) 
 

Main Professional Qualifications

  • President of the Consortium “Gestione Ampliamento Rete Ricerca” (GARR), the Italian education and research network (Rome)
  • Member of the Board of Directors (appointed by the Minister for Universities and Research) of the National Research Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing – ICSC (Bologna)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Poliambulanza, a non-profit hospital institution (Brescia)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Laudato Si Foundation (Desenzano del Garda)
  • Consultant to public authorities on mobility, urban and territorial planning, and environmental assessment 

Main Previous Professional and Academic Appointments

  • Rector of the University of Brescia
  • Member of the New Technical Mission Structure of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
  • Member of the Expert Group on Urban Policies supporting the Interministerial Committee for Urban Policies (CIPU) – Ministry for Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (now Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport)
  • Member of the Commission for the reform of national legislation on territorial planning, urban standards and building regulations – Ministry for Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (now Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Sintesi S.p.A. (Brescia)
  • Councillor for Mobility and Urban Planning of the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda (Province of Brescia)
  • Member of the Working Group for the revision of technical regulations on the design of cycle paths at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
  • Member of the Working Group for the issuing of technical standards on the classification of existing roads at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
  • Invited Member of the Comité d’experts PLU, déplacements et sécurité of the Centre d’Études sur les Réseaux, les Transports, l’Urbanisme et les Constructions Publiques (CERTU) of the French Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure and Housing (Lyon)
  • Member of the UNI Working Group for technical standards on rockfall protection barriers 
     

He has also been:

  • Member of the Executive Board, with responsibility for internationalisation, of the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Uni-Italia, the academic promotion centre for guidance on studying in Italy (MAECI – Rome)
  • President of the Coordination of Italian Local Agenda 21 Authorities, the association of local authorities for sustainability

     

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