Overview

Maria Rosaria Marsico  is presently Associate Professor of Strucural Dynamics at the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Exeter, UK. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 2008 at the University of Naples Federico II and she was Research Assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Bristol, UK  woking on the instabiliy of cables in cable-stay bridges.

She investigates the use of sustainable and innovative materials to reinforce elastomers and enhance the vibration isolation properties of elastomeric devices. In 2021 she secured two EPSRC Knowledge Exchange Funding Impact Accelerator Accounts (IAA) and a UKRI Research England Innovation Platform for Collaboration Funding to engage with industries and explore partnership schemes, which resulted in two filed patents on which this research will capitalize.

She is regularly invited to present her research, for instance at the 2024 Global Summit for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers and at the 2021 IoM3 Elastomers in Infrastructure session.

She she was Visiting Researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of California Berkeley in 2008-09 and she optimised an innovative method to design buckling and roll-out displacement for multilayer elastomeric bearings used for seismic protection.

Dr Marsico has reviewed grant applications and sits on panels for UKRI and for the UK Higher Eucation Academy.

Awards

2021: Incubator Fellow 'Research-Based Community-Engaged' University of Exeter

2020: EASD Junior Research Prize in the area of Application of Structural Dynamics (European Association of Structural Dynamics) 

2020: 'Lucani insigni' Award, A distinctive person from Lucania, Italy, by Regional Basilicata Council.

2018: Princilap Fellow of the Hiegher Education Academy 

 Leaderhsip Roles

2020- Admission Lead, Engineering at the University of Exeter, UK

Past Chair of the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA Exeter Branch (2016-18)

Early Career Researcher Rep for Engineering. Fecabook ECRN. LinkedIn ECRN UoE Engineering. 

External Relations Champion for Engineering at CEMPS.

Equality & Diversity Co-ordinator (Engineering), University of Exeter.

Funder of Robogals Chapter at CEMPS.

Research-led learning. Watch my controbution to the Education Strategy 2015-2020.

 2014-2016  Co-ordinator of the Exeter MSc in Structural Engineering. 

  Professional Experience

2016: Member of the EPSC Associate Peer Review College.

2014: Member of the Italian Working Group ‘Earthquake Risk Assessment Plan’ (€444,176.02).

2010-2012: Project Engineer at SOMMA MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

2006:  Expert witness for Italian Court, Potenza, Italy.

2005-2006: Project Engineer for GAMMA ENGINEERING.

2005-2008: Engineer Consultant for BLG ENGINEERING GROUP.

2005: Engineer Consultant for FEEVA Architecture. 

PhD Studenthsip

Ph.D self-funded studentship under my supervision in the areas of:

Advanced Materials

1.      Graphene-Based Composite Materials for Seismic Isolation of Structures (Maria Rosaria Marsico) contact email M.R.Marsico@exeter.ac.uk

2.      Metamaterial-based design of seismic resistant structures (Maria Rosaria Marsico) contact email M.R.Marsico@exeter.ac.uk

Aerospace

1.      Advanced composites for boosting resilience of strategic equipment operating in wobbling environments in the medical and aerospace industry (Julian Londono Monsalve) contact email J.Londono-Monsalve@exeter.ac.uk or M.R.Marsico@exeter.ac.uk

I would he happy to supervise PhD Students in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Please contact me!

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Publications

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2023

• Rivera ED, Londoño Monsalve J, Craciun MF, Marsico MR. (2023) Experimental Assessment of the Mechanical Performance of Graphene Nanoplatelets Coated Polymers, Advanced Engineering Materials, volume 25, no. 23, DOI:10.1002/adem.202300830. [PDF]
• Safari S. (2023) Discovering physics-informed nonlinear dynamical models of engineering structures from vibration data.

2022

• Marsico MR, Londono Monsalve JM, Craciun M. (2022) The Effect of Graphene Ultrasonic Coating on Recycled Rubber, Advanced Engineering Materials, DOI:10.1002/adem.202200957.

2021

• Marsico MR, Londoño Monsalve JM. (2021) Graphene-rubber layered functional composites for seismic isolation, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, pages 1-4, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-47634-2_1.

2020

• Marsico MR, Monsalve JML. (2020) Graphene-rubber layered composites for seismic isolation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Structural Dynamic , EURODYN, volume 2, pages 3198-3203.
• Marsico MR, Londoño Monsalve JM, Shin D-W, Craciun MF. (2020) Graphene–Rubber Layered Functional Composites for Seismic Isolation of Structures, Advanced Engineering Materials, volume 22, no. 7, DOI:10.1002/adem.201900852. [PDF]

2019

• Sengsri P, Rosaria Marsico M, Kaewunruen S. (2019) Base isolation fibre-reinforced composite bearings using recycled rubber, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, volume 603, no. 2, DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/603/2/022060.

2015

• Marsico M, Kelly JM. (2015) The influence of damping in seismic isolate nuclear power plants, Eng Mechanics Institute (EMI) 2015 Conf,, Stanford University.

2014

• Marsico M, Wagg DJ. (2014) Delay optimization in real time dynamic substructuring tests on a cable-deck system, Proc. 22nd UK Conf. Association Computational Mechanics in Eng., ACME 2014, Exeter, 1st - 1st Jan 2014.
• Marsico M, Norman HJ. (2014) Performances of rubber bearings by varying the rubber properties, Proc. 22nd UK Conf. Association Computational Mechanics in Eng, ACME 2014, Exeter, 1st - 1st Jan 2014.
• Marsico M. (2014) Effects of interface delay in real-time dynamic substructuring tests on a cable for cable-stayed bridge, Smart Structures and Systems, DOI:10.12989/sss.2014.14.6.1173.
• Marsico M, Kelly J. (2014) The influence of damping on floor spectra in seismic isolated nuclear structures, DOI:10.1002/stc.1715.

2013

• Marsico M, Wagg DJ, Neild SA. (2013) Real time dynamic substructuring tests on a cable-deck system in absence of delay, Network Earthq Eng Simulation (distributor), Dataset, DOI:10.4231/D3VX0635F.
• Marsico M, Wagg DJ, Neild SA. (2013) Real time dynamic substructuring tests on a cable-deck system in presence of delay, Network Earthq Eng Simulation (distributor), Dataset, DOI:10.4231/D30P0WR0N.
• Marsico MR, Kelly, JM. (2013) Tension Buckling in Rubber Bearings affected by Cavitation, Engineering Structures, volume 56, pages 656-663, DOI:10.1016/j.engstruct.2013.05.051. [PDF]

2011

• Marsico M, Londoño JM, Neild SA, Wagg DJ. (2011) The effect of delay on real time dynamic substructuring tests in a cable for cable-stayed bridge, 4th Int. Conf. on Advances in Experimental Structural Eng, 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
• Marsico M, Wagg DJ, Neild SA, Macdonald J. (2011) Nonlinear cable vibrations: experimental tests on an inclined cable, 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN, Leuven, Belgium, 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
• Marsico M, Tzanov V, Wagg DJ, Krauskopf B, Neild SA, Macdonald J. (2011) Internal resonance between in-plane and out-of-plane modes of vibration of inclined cables subjected to vertical support excitation, 8th Int. Conf. on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN, Leuven, Belgium, 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
• Marsico M, Wagg DJ, Neild SA. (2011) The effect of interface delays in substructuring experiments, Proceedings ASME 2011 Washington, DC, USA, 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
• Marsico MR, Wagg DJ, Neild SA. (2011) The effect of interface delays in substructuring experiments, Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, volume 1, no. PARTS A AND B, pages 619-624.
• Marsico MR, Tzanov V, Wagg DJ, Neild SA, Krauskopf B. (2011) Bifurcation analysis of a parametrically excited inclined cable close to two-to-one internal resonance, Journal of Sound and Vibration, volume 330, no. 24, pages 6023-6035. [PDF]
• Marsico MR, Tzanov V, Wagg DJ, Neild SA, Krauskopf B. (2011) Bifurcation analysis of a parametrically excited inclined cable close to two-to-one internal resonance, Journal of Sound and Vibration.

2010

• Marsico M, Neild SA, Wagg DJ. (2010) Bridge Cable stability: and analytical and experimental model, Proc. of 10th Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Struct. Dynam. (RASD), Southampton, Uk, 1st - 1st Jan 2010.
• Marsico M, Wagg DJ, Neild SA. (2010) The effect of deck parameters on out-of-plane vibrations of a stay-bridge cable, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, Belgium, 1st - 1st Jan 2010.
• Kelly JM, Marsico MR. (2010) Stability and post-buckling behavior in nonbolted elastomeric isolators, Seismic Isolation and Protective Systems, volume 1, no. 1, pages 41-54. [PDF]
• Serino G, Spizzuoco M, Marsico MR. (2010) Application of structural isolation and health monitoring the 'Our Lady of Tears Shrine' in syracuse (Italy), Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, volume 6, no. 5, pages 593-610.
• Marsico MR, Gonzalez-Buelga A, Neild SA, Wagg DJ. (2010) Interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane cable modes for a cable-deck system, Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009, volume 1, no. PART A, pages 583-590.

2009

• Marsico M, Kelly JM. (2009) The instability of non-bolted elastomeric isolators.
• Wagg DJ, Marsico M, Sieber J, Neild SA. (2009) Dynamic testing for uncertainty in structural dynamics, 2nd International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, The University Of Sheffield.
• Marsico M, Kelly JM. (2009) Stability and Post-Buckling Behaviour in Non-Bolted Elastomeric Isolators, Proceedings of the XIII Italian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (ANIDIS), CD paper 226, Bologna.
• Marsico M, Neild SA, Gonzalez-Buelga A, Wagg DJ. (2009) Interaction between in-plane and out- of-plane cable mode for a cable-deck system, Proce. ASME 2009, San Diego, California.
• Marsico M, Wagg DJ. (2009) Stability for bridge cable and cable-deck interaction, 3rd Int. Conf. on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering,, San Francisco, California (usa), 1st - 1st Jan 2009.
• Marsico MR, Gonzalez-Buelga A, Neild SA, Wagg DJ. (2009) Interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane cable modes for a cable-deck system, Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, volume 1, no. PARTS A AND B, pages 583-590.

2008

• Spizzuoco M, Serino G, Londoño Monsalve JM, Marsico M. (2008) Experimental investigation on passive fluid viscous devices by FIP Industriale.
• Serino G, Chandrasekaran S, Spizzuoco M, Marsico M. (2008) Descriptions and analytical modelling of the Jetpacs prototype steel frame.
• Serino G, Spizzuoco M, Marsico M, Chandrasekaran S. (2008) The monitoring system of an isolated religious building in Italy: a recent acquisition of the Italian "OSS", Proc. 4th European Conf. on Structural Control, St.petersburg.
• Serino G, Spizzuoco M, Marsico MR, Chandrasekaran S. (2008) Seismic isolation and modelling of a worship structure, Proceedings of Fourth European Conference on Structural Control, St.petersburg, 1st - 1st Jan 2008.
• Spizzuoco M, Londoño JM, Serino G, Marsico M. (2008) Design of non-linear viscous dampers for a steel braced mock-up structure,, Proc. of 4th European Conf. on Structural Control, St.petersburg.
• Marsico M, Kelly JM. (2008) The instability of non-bolted elastomeric isolators, Acts of Technologies for Seismic Isolation and Control of Structures and Infrastructures, Naples.

2007

• Serino G, Spizzuoco M, Marsico M. (2007) Isolamento sismico del Santuario “Madonna delle Lacrime” in Siracusa, Proceedings of the XII Italian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (ANIDIS), CD paper 261, 2007.
• Serino G, Spizzuoco M, Marsico M. (2007) The “Santuario Madonna delle Lacrime” in Siracusa as recent application of structural isolation and health monitoring, Proc. Int. Conf. on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES’07), Porto, 1st - 1st Jan 2007.

2006

• Marsico M, Spizzuoco M, Serino G. (2006) Rapporto di organizzazione delle prove sul telaio in scala 1:1,5.
• Marsico M. (2006) Abitare la Luce, Paesaggio Urbano, volume 6.
• Marsico M, Serino G, Spizzuoco M. (2006) Prove in situ di carico e di scarico su appoggi antisismici di una copertura in c.a, Proc. Convegno Nazionale Sperimentazione su materiali e strutture, Venezia, Italy.

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