Dr. Daniele Casagrande, Ph.D, P.Eng. is an Adjunct Professor of structural engineering at the University of Ottawa and Assistant Professor of timber engineering at University of Trento, Italy. He received a postgraduate professional degree on Seismic behaviour of structures at the University of Trieste (Italy) in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems at the University of Trento (Italy) in 2014.
His area of expertise mainly includes the seismic behaviour of timber structures. He has worked, within national and international collaborations, e.g. University of Ottawa and National Research Council of Italy, on the proposal of simplified analytical and numerical approaches for the seismic analysis of timber buildings and on the development of innovative timber structures for post-emergency housing facilities.
In his career, he has actively participated in the design, execution and post-process analysis of laboratory tests on mechanical connections, wood-based shear walls and full-scale shake table tests.
As member of the Italian Committee for timber structures, Dr. Casagrande has been actively participating at the working groups for the revision of Eurocode 5 and the timber chapter of Eurocode 8. He has been currently leading the working group on the accidental load situations within the European COST Action CA20139 for the holistic design of taller timber buildings.
He has been involved in several national and international courses and seminars for Civil Engineers. Throughout his career, Dr. Casagrande has published several peer-reviewed journals and conference papers.