GIUSEPPETTI

ITALY (see also List of Individuals)

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10.6.1945 Pesaro/I - 17.9.2003 Milano/I

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Gabriella Giuseppetti graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Bologna in 1968. From 1971 she was at the Centre for Hydraulic and Structural Research CRIS of the national energy company ENEL in Milano, where she was in the research and development group for advancing the finite element method. She was appointed technical director of CRIS, a position she held until the Italian Centre for Experimental Electrotechnics CESI took over the former organization. Difficult years from 1995 to 2002 engaged Giuseppetti not only as director of CRIS and as ENEL's official representative abroad, but also in the defense of the autonomy of "her" Centre. She was engaged in confrontations leading to a drastic downsizing of the research activities, and eventually to the merging of CRIS into CESI.

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Giuseppetti's qualities led her not only to be chosen as a representative of CRIS in official missions but also to assume a more prominent role in her working environment. She was finally the head of the theoretical analysis section from 1988. Her nomination as director of CRIS in 2002 was warmly welcomed by the personnel, a group of some 150 collaborators, because she was sensitive to the personal vicissitudes and human troubles of her employees, which she took to heart with personal interest. Technically, she was mainly interested in numerical models relative to Italian dams and to safety aspects of dam schemes. International recognition of these qualities was not waiting, because she was conferred the chairmanship of an ICOLD committee. The International Congress of Large Dams ICOLD awarded her Honorary Membership in 2002. In 2003 she was conferred the title Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito by the Italian president.

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_{Anonymous (2001). Dr. Gabriella Giuseppetti. Hydropower and Dams 8(5): 26. P}

_{Fanelli, M., Giuseppetti, G., Rabagliati, U. (1978). Il calcolo delle dighe a volta: Il metodo di Ritter modificato. ISMES: Bergamo.}

_{Fanelli, M., Giuseppetti, G. (1979). La determinazione del coefficiente di diffusività termica nei solidi per mezzo di misure di temperature. L'Energia Elettrica 56(8): 373-383.}

_{Fanelli, M., Mazzà, G. (2003). Remembering Gabriella. Hydropower and Dams 10(6): 117. P Fanelli, M., Mazzà, G. (2003). In ricordo di Gabriella Giuseppetti. L'Acqua 81(6): 84. P Giuseppetti, G. (1993). Traditional versus advanced mathematical modeling for concrete dams. ISMES: Bergamo.}

_{Marazio, A., Bonaldi, P., Giuseppetti, G. (1985). The safety of dams: Costs and investments.}

_{ISMES: Bergamo.}