Maurizio Tira
Maurizio Tira has been elected President of Consortium GARR for the period 2022/2025.
He graduated with full marks in Civil engineering for soil protection and regional planning, he serves as Full Professor of Urban and regional Planning at the University of Brescia, where he was Rector from 2016 to 2022.
He teaches Urban planning and risk mitigation and Environmental ethics in the master's degree course in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
He is a member of the Doctoral Board in Civil and Environmental Engineering, International Cooperation and Mathematics and of the National PhD Course in Sustainable Development and Climate Change. Past-President of the Italian Society of Urban Planners and the National Centre of Urban Studies at the National Council of Engineers, he is member of the Board of the Academy of Science, Letters and Arts in Brescia and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of Bologna. He acts as President of the UNIBS Foundation, member of the board of the ”European University Association” and the Administration council of the “National Centre of Hyper Computing, big data and Quantum Computing”, as appointed by the Minister of University and Research.
He is expert member of the European Transport Safety Council and the Transport Research Committee of the International Transport Forum at OECD, as well as expert in the Group on Urban Mobility at the DG MOVE – EU Commission.
He coordinated and participated in several EU funded projects, about urban planning, sustainable mobility and planning in hazardous areas. Maurizio Tira is Author of more than 270 publications.
In December 2020 he has been appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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