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Massimo Ruzzene is the vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes. Before his appointment in 2023, he served as acting vice chancellor for research and innovation and associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder. Ruzzene is the Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.

Most of his Ruzzene’s research focuses on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation with application to structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control.

He joined Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder in the summer of 2019, after serving as the Pratt and Whitney Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ruzzene received a PhD from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999. Read Massimo Ruzzene’s bio on the Research & Innovation Office website.