Filippo Berto

Filippo Berto (born 12 February 1978) is an Italian professor and engineer, who works on fracture and fatigue mechanics at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the vice president of the European Structural Integrity Society.

Berto received the Order of the Star of Italy in 2021 and multiple awards from the European Structural Integrity Society. Berto has held significant international positions, including a chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and was a Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2020 to 2023.

According to Scopus, in 2021, Berto published 179 articles, approximately an article every two days. He is in the list of 2% top scientist released by Stanford University with 1,216 peer-reviewed articles and 26,341 citations, . Despite his contributions, in 2024, Berto's work has faced scrutiny for questionable practices, leading to retractions and loss of editorial board positions. Provided by Wikipedia