Ranked in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University ranking), Dr Praticò got his bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degrees in civil-transportation engineering from the universities of Pisa and Palermo.
After industry, he joined the Mediterranea University and became associate professor in 2002, habilitated full in 2012-4, serving as deputy of the Master School and the DIMET Department, director of the Road Laboratory, member of the TRB of U.S. National Academies, and chair of several international committees.
His main areas of research are civil/sustainable engineering, transportation and construction and infrastructure management, sustainability and environmental impact of construction projects, road, railways and airport materials quality, marginal and recycled materials, safety and geometrics, road and airport surface properties, road, railways and airport work zones, road, railways and airport crises management, new applications to transportation infrastructures (navigation and positioning systems, ICTbased, energy based, air-related, sea-related, road-related, rail-related), environmental issues and their quantification, and sensing systems.
The quality of his research is evidenced by extensive publication in high-impact peerreviewed journals, national and international patents, research projects, supervision of theses, guest lectures, membership of editorial boards, and collaboration with international authors.