
Xingbo Pu
Università di Bologna
Background
Xingbo comes from China. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Bologna and is supervised by Prof. Alessandro Marzani. Before that, He received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University. During that period, he won the Outstanding Master Thesis Award and the highest honor (ZhiXing scholarship).
In INSPIRE, Xingbo will mainly develop an innovative device, termed as metabarrier for steering and trapping surface seismic waves, aimed at protecting structures and infrastructures from natural disasters.
In his spare time, Xingbo enjoys jogging and swimming.