The 1st FOURIER Training School will take place from 3–5 February 2026 at Valentino Castle, part of the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino.
The event will bring together PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals for a three-day programme focused on learning, knowledge exchange, and professional development, supporting participants in their ongoing and future doctoral research.
During the Training School, participants will attend a series of lectures on AI infrastructure monitoring and resilience. In addition, DCs will present their doctoral research concepts, outlining their planned research approaches, expected outcomes, and future directions.
The programme will also include site visits to the Marchetti Viaduct in Pavone Canavese, a 250-meter-long steel, single-span tied-arch motorway bridge and to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, providing insights into real-world infrastructure and applied research environments.
Guest Lectures:
- Prof. Eleni Chatzi (ETH Zurich) – Adaptive Digital Twins for Resilient Infrastructure — From Models to Monitoring to Intelligent Decision Making
- Prof. Enzo Martinelli (Università di Salerno) – On the use of Genetic Algorithms for selecting the optimal seismic upgrading solution for existing RC structures
- Prof. Vincenzo Gattulli (Sapienza University of Rome) – Hybrid AI-Driven Digital Twins for Structural Health Monitoring: Physics-Informed Learning, Synthetic Data, and Uncertainty-Aware Deployment
- Xinzheng Lu (Tsinghua University) –“Knowledge-Mechanics” Integrated Generative-AI Design Method for Civil Infrastructures
Consortium Lectures:
- Dr. Daniele Inaudi (Smartec) – Fiber Optic Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring
- Prof. Andrea Bottino (Politecnico di Torino) – XR and AI for Procedure Learning: Adaptive, Immersive, and Intelligent Training Systems
- Prof. Edoardo Patti (Politecnico di Torino) – Enabling technologies to Move from Digital Models to Digital Twin
- Prof. Micaela Demichela (Politecnico di Torino) – Multi-Risk Assessment as a Decision-Support Tool for Infrastructure–Environment Systems
- Marta Serrano & Ian Lister (CLA – Politecnico di Torino) – Communicating Your Research Effectively: Writing for publication in the age of AI
- Prof. José Palma (University of Lisbon, The Equator Company) – All Disasters Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others: Rethinking the Empirical Foundations of Community Resilience
