2025 The 9th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety
Turin, Italy - November 26-28, 2025

 

Alba Sofi, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy

 

Alba Sofi is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria (Italy). In 2017, she got the National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures.
Prof. Sofi received her Ph.D degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy). She was a Visiting Professor at Xidian University (2019, 2021) and Guangzhou University (2018) in China. She held Visiting Fellow positions at Oxford University (2016-2019) and the University of New South Wales in Australia (Aug-Nov 2017). In 2004, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Rice University (USA).
She serves as the Managing Editor of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. She is a member of several Editorial Boards including the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Advances in Engineering Software, and the Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience.
Prof. Sofi received the Editor’s Award for the Best Paper published in 2020 in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering. She was an Early Career Keynote speaker at ICOSSAR 2021-2022, a Session Keynote speaker at UNCECOMP 2023, ICSRS 2023, and ICSRS 2024, as well as a plenary keynote speaker at VIBSYS 2024.
She chaired the 9th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC 2021) and has served on the scientific committees of many international conferences. Currently, she serves as the 2nd vice-Chair of the ASME Safety Engineering & Risk Analysis Division (SERAD).
Prof. Sofi’s primary research interests focus on: stochastic dynamics; probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches for uncertainty quantification with specific expertise in interval analysis; fractional calculus; bridge-vehicle dynamic interaction; cable dynamics; and non-local elasticity theory. She has published over 100 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.