Award: Appointed in 2019 ''TUM Ambassador'' by the President of the Technical University of Munich.

Award: Included in the 2018 list of ''Highly Cited Researchers'', by Clarivate/ISI (cf. http://highlycited.com).

Award: Recipient of the 2018 "Bruno Finzi Prize", awarded, on a biennial basis, by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere to recognize an Italian scholar (45 years old or younger) for outstanding research results concerning Rational Mechanics or other strictly related fields.

Award: Included in the 2017 list of ''Highly Cited Researchers'', by Clarivate/ISI (cf. http://highlycited.com).

Award: Appointed in 2017 Commander ("Commendatore") of the "Order of Merit of the Italian Republic" by the President of the Italian Republic ("motu proprio").

Award: Included in the 2016 list of ''Highly Cited Researchers'', by Clarivate/ISI Thomson-Reuters (cf. http://highlycited.com).

Award: Recipient of the 2016 "IACM Fellows Award", awarded, on a biennial basis, by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) to recognize individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication in areas of Computational Mechanics.

Award: Included in the 2015 list of ''Highly Cited Researchers'', by ISI Thomson-Reuters (cf. http://highlycited.com).

Award: Recipient of the 2015 "Hans Fischer" Fellowship, awarded by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to outstanding international scientists who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas.

Award: Recipient of the 2014 IACM "John Argyris" Award for Young Scientists, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) for outstanding accomplishments by a researcher 40 years old or younger.

Award: Included in the 2014 list of ''Highly Cited Researchers'', by ISI Thomson-Reuters (cf. http://highlycited.com).

Award: Recipient of the 2013 "AIMETA Junior" Prize for Mechanics of Solids and Structures, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) to young (i.e., under 40) Italian scientists for outstanding research results concerning one of the Association scientific areas.

Award: Recipient of the 2012 "O.C. Zienkiewicz" Award, awarded, on a biennial basis, by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) to the best young (i.e., under 40) scientist in the field of Computational Engineering Sciences.

Award: Recipient of the 2010 "Ideas" ERC Starting Grant, considered one of the most prestigious research awards from the European Community. The funded project is entitled ISOBIO - Isogeometric Methods for Biomechanics and more information are available here.

Isogeometric research software: GeoPDEs: a research tool for IsoGeometric Analysis of PDEs, developed in collaboration with C. de Falco and R. Vazquez, is available for free download here.