Barbara Rossi MEng MSc PhD MAS

Barbara received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from ULiege in 2003. She then joined ArcelorMittal as a research engineer, where she sought to develop long-span composite floors. Between 2005 and 2009, she performed and defended a PhD in Engineering Science, with a dissertation entitled “Mechanical properties, residual stresses and structural behaviour of thin-walled stainless steel profiles”. Part of her degree was achieved at The University of Sydney and Imperial College London, as a visiting fellow.

Barbara joined the University of Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science. Prior to being appointed at the University of Oxford, she was an Associate Professor in Engineering Technology at KU Leuven, where she led a research group exploring the structural behaviour of metallic structures.

At the University of Oxford, Barbara established and leads The Sustainable Metal Structures Research Group, focusing on enhancing the sustainability and resilience of metal structures. Advanced analytical and computational analysis are combined with experimental methods to perform both fundamental and applied research. Her team’s research topics include lateral-torsional buckling of stainless steel beams, crevice corrosion-fatigue of duplex steel in open ocean structures, corrosion of welded stainless steel in wastewater treatment plant, corrosion resistance in high-level radioactive waste disposal, fatigue of hybrid structures, behaviour of additively manufactured structures. Her research often involves full-scale experiments on structures under various forces and corrosive environments to assess structural performance, in the Sustainable Metal Structures Laboratory, at Begbroke Science Park.

Over the past two decades, whole-life assessment and sustainability of structures have been central to Barbara’s work. In 2022, Barbara was one of fifty Engineers awarded Carbon Champion status by the Institution of Civil Engineers. A year later the ICE awarded her the Bev Waugh Medal for Productivity and Culture. And a year later, she became a Fellow of the Institution, the highest grade of membership of the Institution.

In the last five years, Barbara has published over 80 papers, 37 in peer-reviewed international journals, and contributed to the revisions of Eurocode 3 Part 1-4 and Eurocode 3 Part 1-9. Barbara is also co-founder of Oxford Sustainability. The company specializes in carbon accounting and mitigation in the construction sector. Barbara offers consultancy to asset developers, managers, and owners, provides advice to architects and building contractors, aiming at promoting low-carbon and nature-positive projects under a “whole system’s approach”. Embodied carbon mitigation is achieved through leaner designs employing more innovative solutions. Barbara also provides tailored training, and state-of-the-art research evaluating current standards or best practices, to drive sustainable construction practices.

In her free time, Barbara is fond of travelling, especially in Italy given her attachment to her family background. She also likes to design handicrafts incorporating various fabrics, precious metals, and ceramics.

Our research revolves around materials such as ultra-high strength steel, stainless steel, aluminium, or a combination of these, used in structures such as bridges, windmills, radioactive waste disposal facility, or wastewater treatment plants.

Our approach considers structures holistically, with the final objective of reaching a highly efficient design while maintaining an acceptable level of reliability over the whole lifecycle. We strive for a more rational use of the next-generation metals in structures that are built with radically innovative processes.

The topics that are currently studied in my research team involve:

• Buckling of perforated plates and cross-sections
• Mechanical behaviour of hybrid carbon-to-stainless steel welded joints under corrosion-fatigue
• Resistance of I-profile hybrid beams with strong flanges
• Mechanical behaviour of duplex welded connections in highly corrosive environment for nuclear waste geological storage units
• Longevity and mechanical behaviour of stainless steels structures in wastewater treatment units
• Behaviour of wire-arc additive manufactured components when submitted to corrosion-fatigue
• Effective and sustainable construction project management
• Effect of corrosion on offshore seaweed cultivation
• I-profile stainless steel beam-columns
• Behaviour of I-profile sections with web openings

A list of Barbara's publications can be found on Limo.

• Mechanical behavior of ferritic grade 3Cr12 stainless steel. Part 1: Experimental investigations, Rossi, Barbara, Applied Science Publishers, Thin-Walled Structures; 2010; Vol. 48; iss. 7; pp. 553 - 560
• Discussion on the use of stainless steel in constructions in view of sustainability, Rossi, Barbara, Applied Science Publishers, Thin-Walled Structures; 2014; Vol. 83; pp. 182 - 189
• Mechanical behavior of ferritic grade 3Cr12 stainless steel. Part 2: Yield locus and hardening laws, Rossi, Barbara, Applied Science Publishers, Thin-Walled Structures; 2010; Vol. 48; iss. 7; pp. 540 - 552
• Cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment within the built environment: Comparison between the refurbishment and the complete reconstruction of an office building in Belgium, Marique, Anne-Françoise ; Rossi, Barbara, Elsevier, Journal of Environmental Management; 2018; Vol. 224; pp. 396 - 405
• Stainless Steels for Lecturers and Students of Architecture and Civil Engineering: Module 7B: Structural Stainless Steel Flat Products, Rossi, Barbara ; Fortan, Maarten, ISSF; 2015-12
• Mechanical properties, residual stresses and structural behavior of thin-walled stainless steel profiles, Rossi, Barbara; Jaspart, Jean-Pierre (Supervisor), 2009-03 (PhD Thesis)
• Carrying capacity of stainless steel columns in the low slenderness range, Rossi, Barbara ; Rasmussen, Kim JR, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Structural Engineering; 2012; Vol. 139; iss. 6; pp. 1088 - 1092
• Geometrically non linear analysis of steel storage racks submitted to earthquake loading, Degée, Hervé ; Rossi, Barbara ; Jehin, Denis, World Scientific, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics; 2011; Vol. 11; iss. 5; pp. 949 - 967
• Recent research into thin-walled ferritic stainless steel profiles, Rossi, Barbara ; Cashell, Katherine A; Kim, Jong-Rak (Editor), Korean Society of Steel Construction; Seoul; International Symposium on Steel Structures: ISSS 2011, Date: 2011/11/03 - 2011/11/05, Location: Seoul, Korea, Proceedings of International Symposium on Steel Structures, 6th; 2011; pp. 860 - 867
• Techniques d’analyse de cycle de vie appliquées aux structures, Rossi, Barbara ; Courard, Luc; Waldmann, Danièle (Editor) ; Lecomte, André (Editor) ; Courard, Luc (Editor), Université du Luxembourg, Univeristé de Lorraine et Université de Liège; Luxembourg; Compte rendu des Journées scientifiques du Regroupement francophone pour la recherche et la formation sur le béton: RF2B, Date: 2011/01/07 - 2011/01/08, Location: Luxembourg, Compte rendu des Journées scientifiques du Regroupement francophone pour la recherche et la formation sur le béton: RF2B, Luxembourg 7-8 juillet 2011; 2011; pp. 123 - 131
• Prediction of the cross-section capacity of hot-rolled profiles using the direct strength method and the continuous strength method, Li, Yongzhen ; Rossi, Barbara; Chan, SL (Editor) ; Shu, GP (Editor), Southeast University; Nanjing, China; International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures: ICASS’12, Date: 2012/04/14 - 2012/04/16, Location: Nanjing, China, Proceedings of seventh International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures; 2012; pp. 100 - 106
• The strength of stainless steel fillet welds using GMAW, Fortan, Maarten ; Dejans, Arnout ; Debruyne, Dimitri ; Rossi, Barbara, Stainless Steel in Structures, Date: 2017/09/18 - 2017/09/19, Location: London, UK, Proceedings of Stainless Steel in Structures: Fifth International Experts Seminar; 2017; Vol. 2017; pp. 1 - 13
• Fatigue Behaviour of Duplex Welded Bridge Details, Karabulut, Burak ; Lombaert, Geert ; Debruyne, Dimitri ; Rossi, Barbara, 2017-08; Bauhaus Summer School in Forecast Engineering: From Past Design to Future, Decisions, Date: 2017/08/21 - 2017/09/01, Location: Weimar, Germany
• Lateral torsional buckling behaviour of welded lean duplex stainless steel I section beams, Fortan, Maarten ; Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara; Zingoni, Alphose (Editor), Taylor & Francis Group; London; International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Date: 2016/09/05 - 2016/09/07, Location: Cape Town, South Africa, Insights and Innovations in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation; 2016; pp. 393 - 394
• Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Steel Storage Racks Submitted to Earthquake Loading, Degee, Herve ; Rossi, Barbara ; Jehin, Denis, World Scientific Publishing, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics; 2011; Vol. 11; iss. 5; pp. 949 - 967
• Predictive models for strength enhancements in cold-formed structural sections, Rossi, Barbara ; Afshan, Sheida ; Gardner, Leroy; Gardner, Leroy (Editor), CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL; International Symposium on Tubular Structures: ISTS14, Date: 2012/09/12 - 2012/09/14, Location: London, UK, Tubular Structures XIV; 2012; pp. 391 - 398
• Enhanced mechanical properties after cold process of fabrication of non-linear metallic profiles, Rossi, Barbara ; Degee, Herve ; Pascon, Frederic, Applied Science Publishers, Thin-Walled Structures; 2009; Vol. 47; iss. 12; pp. 1575 - 1589
• Combined distortional and overall flexural-torsional buckling of cold-formed stainless steel sections: Design, Rossi, Barbara ; Jaspart, Jean-Pierre ; Rasmussen, Kim JR, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Structural Engineering; 2010; Vol. 136; iss. 4; pp. 361 - 369
• Combined distortional and overall flexural-torsional buckling of cold-formed stainless steel sections: Experimental investigations, Rossi, Barbara ; Jaspart, Jean-Pierre ; Rasmussen, Kim JR, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Structural Engineering; 2010; Vol. 136; iss. 4; pp. 354 - 360
• A natural neighbour method based on Fraeijs de Veubeke variational principle for materially non-linear problems, Li, Xiang ; Cescotto, Serge ; Rossi, Barbara, Science Press, Acta Mechanica Sinica; 2009; Vol. 25; iss. 1; pp. 83 - 93
• Experimental and numerical studies of ferritic stainless steel tubular cross-sections under combined compression and bending, Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy ; Young, Ben, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Structural Engineering; 2015; Vol. 142; iss. 2; pp. 1 - 15
• Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool, Rossi, Barbara ; Marique, Anne-Francoise ; Glaumann, Mauritz ; Reiter, Sigrid, Pergamon Press, Building and Environment; 2012; Vol. 51; pp. 395 - 401
• Comparative life cycle cost assessment of painted and hot-dip galvanized bridges, Rossi, Barbara ; Marquart, Sebastian ; Rossi, Giovanni, Elsevier, Journal of Environmental Management; 2017; Vol. 197; pp. 41 - 49
• Strength enhancements in cold-formed structural sections. Part II: Predictive models, Rossi, Barbara ; Afshan, Sheida ; Gardner, Leroy, Constrada and Granada Pub. Journal of Constructional Steel Research; 2013; Vol. 83; pp. 189 - 196
• Mechanical behavior of a ferritic stainless steel under simple and complex loading paths, Rossi, Barbara ; Jaspart, JP; Cruz, Paulo JS (Editor), CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL; International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA), Date: 2010/07/21 - 2010/07/23, Location: Guimaraes, Portugal, Structures and architecture; 2010; pp. 642 - 649
• Extension of the DSM to welded H profile cross-sections, Rossi, Barbara ; Li, Yongzhen; Zingoni, Alphose (Editor), CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL; International Conference Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Date: 2013/09/02 - 2013/09/04, Location: Cape Town, South Africa, Research and applications in structural engineering, mechanics and computation; 2013; pp. 1291 - 1296
• Lifecycle carbon footprint of a residential steel framed building in different climates, Rossi, Barbara ; Marique, Anne-Françoise ; Reiter, Sigrid, Finnish Association of Civil Engineers RIL; Helsinki; World Sustainable Building Conference: SB11, Date: 2011/10/18 - 2011/10/21, Location: Helsinki, Finland, 2011 Helsinki: Proceedings of The World Sustainable Building Conference; 2011; pp. 118 - 119
• Finite element model for the extension of the direct strength method to hot-rolled profile cross-sections, Li, Yongzhen ; Rossi, Barbara; Larsens, Per Kristian (Editor), Norwegian Steel Association; Oslo; Nordic Steel, Construction Conference, Date: 2012/09/05 - 2012/09/07, Location: Oslo, Norway, Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Steel Construction Conference; 2012; pp. 97 - 106
• Enhanced proof strength after cold process of fabrication of non-linear metallic profiles-comparison of two predictive models for hollow sections, Rossi, Barbara ; Jaspart, JP; Young, Ben (Editor), CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL; International Symposium on Tubular Structures, Date: 2010/12/15 - 2010/12/17, Location: Hong Kong, Tubular Structures XIII; 2010; pp. 397 - 402
• Optimized design and life cycle cost analysis of a duplex welded girder bridge, Karabulut, Burak ; Lombaert, Geert ; Debruyne, Dimitri ; Rossi, Barbara, 2018-01; International Symposium On Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, Date: 2018/10/28 - 2018/10/31, Location: Ghent, Belgium
• Behaviour of structural stainless steel cross-sections under combined loading – Part I: Experimental study, Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy, IPC Science and Technology Press, Engineering Structures; 2015; Vol. 89; pp. 236 - 246
• Experimental investigation on ferritic stainless steel columns in fire, Tondini, Nicola ; Rossi, Barbara ; Franssen, Jean-Marc, Elsevier Sequoia, Fire Safety Journal; 2013; Vol. 62; iss. PART C; pp. 238 - 248
• Analytical formulation for actual mechanical properties of stainless steel structural members, Rossi, Barbara ; Degée, Hervé ; Habraken, Anne-Marie, Verlag Stahleisen; International Conference on Metal Forming, Date: 2008/09/21 - 2008/09/24, Location: Krakow, Poland, Steel Research International; 2008; Vol. 79; iss. 2; pp. 265 - 272
• Behaviour of structural stainless steel cross-sections under combined loading – Part II: Numerical modelling and design approach, Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy ; Young, Ben, IPC Science and Technology Press, Engineering Structures; 2015; Vol. 89; pp. 247 - 259
• Numerical simulation of the roll forming of thin-walled sections and evaluation of corner strength enhancement, Rossi, Barbara ; Degee, Herve ; Boman, Romain, North-Holland, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design; 2013; Vol. 72; pp. 13 - 20
• Static Structural Response of a Conceptual Aluminium Bridge, Saremi, Pooya ; Karabulut, Burak ; Rossi, Barbara, 9th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS19); 9th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS19), Date: 2019/07/03 - 2019/07/05, Location: Bradford, UK, 9th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS19); 2019
• Strength enhancements in cold-formed structural sections. Part I: Material testing, Afshan, Sheida ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy, Constrada and Granada Pub., Journal of Constructional Steel Research; 2013; Vol. 83; pp. 177 - 188
• Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, case study, Rossi, Barbara ; Marique, Anne-Francoise ; Reiter, Sigrid, Pergamon Press, Building and Environment; 2012; Vol. 51; pp. 402 - 407
• Local and interactive post-buckling of RHS thin-walled members - Comparing a new special beam finite element with shell FE models, Degée, Hervé ; Boissonnade, Nicolas ; Rossi, Barbara, World Scientific; European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, Date: 2006/06/05 - 2006/06/09, Location: Lisbon, Portugal, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics; 2007; Vol. 7; iss. 2; pp. 213 - 241
• Robustness of steel and composite buildings suffering the dynamic loss of a column, Comeliau, Ludivine ; Rossi, Barbara ; Demonceau, Jean-Francois, Iabse, Eth-honggerberg, Structural Engineering International; 2012; Vol. 22; iss. 3; pp. 323 - 329
• Effects of the roll forming process on the mechanical properties of thin-walled sections made of non linear metallic materials, Rossi, Barbara ; Boman, Romain ; Degée, Hervé; Dubina, Dan (Editor) ; Ungureanu, Viorel (Editor), ECCS; Brussels; International Conference on Thin Walled Structures: ICTWS2011, Date: 2011/09/05 - 2011/09/07, Location: Timisoara, Romania
• Thin-walled structures: Recent research advances and trends : Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures Held in Timisoara, Romania 5-7 September 2011; 2011; pp. 633 - 640
• Sustainable constructions: Life-cycle inventory analysis, Veljkovic, Milan ; Rossi, Barbara; Borg, Ruben Pau (Editor) ; Veljkovic, Milan (Editor) ; Koukkari, Heli (Editor) ; Bragança, Luis (Editor), Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta; Malta; International Training School Malta, Date: 2010/07/26 - 2010/08/01, Location: Malta
• Sustainable construction a life cycle approach in engineering: Proceedings International Training School Malta, 26 July – 1 August 2010; 2010; pp. 271 - 287
• Lateral stability of verandas by means of the glass panels, Fortan, Maarten ; De Clercq, Jesse ; Meeus, Marc ; Rossi, Barbara, Nordic steel construction conference, Date: 2015/09/23 - 2015/09/25, Location: Tampere, Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Steel Construction Conference; 2015; pp. 211 - 212
• A Study on the Evolution in Design and Calculation of Iron and Steel Structures over the Mid 19th Century in Western and Central Europe, Schueremans, Luc ; Porcher, Henri ; Rossi, Barbara ; Wouters, Ine ; Verstrynge, Els, Taylor & Francis Inc., International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation, Analysis and Restoration; 2018; Vol. 12; iss. 3; pp. 320 - 333
• Field of application of high strength steel circular tubes for steel and composite columns from an economic point of view, Hoang Van, Long ; Demonceau, Jean-Francois ; Lam, Ly Dong Phuong ; Rossi, Barbara, Constrada and Granada Pub., Journal of Constructional Steel Research; 2011; Vol. 67; iss. 6; pp. 1001 - 1021
• Generalized multistage mechanical model for nonlinear metallic materials, Hradil, Petr ; Talja, Asko ; Real, Esther ; Mirambell, Enrique ; Rossi, Barbara, Applied Science Publishers, Thin-Walled Structures; 2013; Vol. 63; pp. 63 - 69
• Investigations on the fretting fatigue failure mechanism of bolted joints in high strength steel subjected to different levels of pre-tension, Jimenez-Pena, Carlos ; Hojjati Talemi, Reza ; Rossi, Barbara ; Debruyne, Dimitri, Elsevier, Tribology International; 2017; Vol. 108; pp. 128 - 140
• On the shear resistance of ferritic stainless steel composite slabs, Lauwens, Kathleen ; Fortan, maarten ; Arrayago, Itsaso ; Mirambell, Enrique ; Rossi, Barbara, Elsevier, Construction and Building Materials; 2018; Vol. 189; pp. 728 - 735
• Numerical Investigations on the Fatigue Life of Lean Duplex Transverse Stiffeners in Bridges
  Karabulut, Burak ; Lombaert, Geert ; Debruyne, Dimitri ; Rossi, Barbara; Zhang, Nora (Editor), MDPI/proceedings; St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland; 18th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Date: 2018/07/01 - 2018/07/05, Location: Brussels, Belgium, MDPI/proceedings; 2018; Vol. 2; iss. 8
• On the evaluation of the through thickness residual stresses distribution of cold formed profiles, Rossi, Barbara ; Habraken, Anne-Marie ; Pascon, Frederic; Cueto, E (Editor) ; Chinesta, F (Editor), AIP Publishing; 10th ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, Date: 2007/04/18 - 2007/04/20, Location: Zaragoza, Spain, 10TH ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, Pts A and B; 2007; Vol. 907; pp. 570 - +
• Extension of the direct strength method to hot-rolled profiles cross-sections, Li, Yongzhen ; Rossi, Barbara; László, Dunai (Editor) ; Miklós, Iványi (Editor) ; Jármai, Károly (Editor) ; László, Gergely Vigh (Editor), ECCS; Brussels; European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures : Eurosteel 2011, Date: 2011/10/30 - 2011/09/02, Location: Budapest, Hungary, EUROSTEEL 2011; 2011; pp. 1911 - 1916
• Use of high strength steel tubular columns in structures: economic study, Hoang Van, Long ; Demonceau, Jean-François ; Rossi, Barbara; Gosowski, Bronisław (Editor) ; Rykaluk, Kazimierz (Editor) ; Ziółko, Jerzy (Editor), Dolnośląskie Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne; Wrocław; Progress in steel and composite structures: ICMS2011, Date: 2011/06/15 - 2011/06/17, Location: Wroclaw, Poland, Progress in steel and composite structures: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Metal Structures, Wrocław, Poland, 15-17 June 2011; 2011; pp. 168 - 169
• Austenitic laser welded I section submitted to torsion and combined torsion plus bending: Assessment of the design rules, Lauwens, Kathleen ; Liang, Yating ; Zhao, Ou ; Fortan, Maarten ; Rossi, Barbara; Zingoni, Alphose (Editor), Taylor & Francis Group; London; International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Date: 2016/09/05 - 2016/09/07, Location: Cape Town, South Africa, Insights and Innovations in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation; 2016; pp. 1099 - 1105
• Microstructural and edge-quality effects on the fatigue performance of high strength steels, Jiménez Peña, Carlos ; Goulas, Constantinos ; Hojjati Talemi, Reza ; Rossi, Barbara ; Debruyne, Dimitri, Euromat 2017; Leuven; Euromat 2017, Date: 2017/09/17 - 2017/09/22, Location: Thessaloniki, Euromat 2017; 2017
• On the evolution in design and calculation of steel structures over the 19th century in Belgium, France and England, Schueremans, Luc ; Porcher, Henri ; Verstrynge, Els ; Rossi, Barbara ; Wouters, Ine; Van Balen, Koen (Editor) ; Verstrynge, Els (Editor), CRC/Balkema; SAHC 2016, Date: 2016/09/13 - 2016/09/15, Location: Leuven, Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions - Anamnesis, Diagnosis, Therapy, Controls; 2016; pp. 604 - 611
• Stainless steel cross-sections under combined loading, Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy ; Young, Ben; Landolfo, Raffaele (Editor) ; Mazzolani, Federico M (Editor), ECCS The European Convention for Constructional Steelwork; Brussels; European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures : Eurosteel 2014., Date: 2014/09/10 - 2014/09/12, Location: Naples, Italy, EUROSTEEL 2014: 7th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, September 10-12, 2014, Naples, Italy; 2014; pp. 97 - 98
• Shear buckling of lean duplex stainless steel plate girders with non-rigid end posts, Fortan, Maarten ; De Wilder, Kristof ; Debruyne, Dimitri ; Rossi, Barbara; Young, Ben (Editor) ; Cai, Yancheng (Editor), University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong; International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures, Date: 2016/12/07 - 2016/12/09, Location: Hong Kong, China, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS 2016); 2016; pp. 1 - 18
• Complete repair of dystrophic skeletal muscle by mesoangioblasts with enhanced migration ability (vol 174, pg 231, 2006), Galvez, Beatriz G ; Sampaolesi, Maurilio ; Brunelli, Silvia ; Covarello, Diego ; Gavina, Manuela ; Rossi, Barbara ; Constantin, Gabriela ; Torrente, Yvan ; Cossu, Giulio
  Rockefeller University Press, Journal of Cell Biology; 2013; Vol. 202; iss. 4; pp. 715 - 716
• Experimental study of ferritic stainless steel composite slabs, Lauwens, Kathleen ; Douchy, Jonas ; Fortan, Maarten ; Arrayago, Itsaso ; Mirambell, Enrique ; Van Gysel, Ann ; Rossi, Barbara; Jönsson, Jeppe (Editor), Technical University of Denmark; Copenhagen; EUROSTEEL 2017, Date: 2017/09/13 - 2017/09/15, Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, EUROSTEEL 2017 - Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures; 2017
• Design manual for structural stainless steel, Afshan, Sheida ; Arrayago, Itsaso ; Baddoo, Nancy ; Gardner, Leroy ; Gedge, Graham ; Jandera, Michal ; Real, Esther ; Rossi, Barbara ; Stranghöner, Nathalie ; Zhao, Ou, The Steel Construction Institute; Berkshire; 2017-01
• Structures en acier inoxydable - Guide de Conception, Afshan, Sheida ; Arrayago, Itsaso ; Baddoo, Nancy ; Gardner, Leroy ; Gedge, Graham ; Jandera, Michal ; Real, Esther ; Rossi, Barbara ; Stranghöner, Natalie ; Zhao, Ou, The Steel Construction Institute; Berkshire; 2017-01
• Behaviour of eccentrically loaded ferritic stainless steel stub columns, Zhao, Ou ; Rossi, Barbara ; Gardner, Leroy ; Young, Ben; de Miranda Batista, Eduardo (Editor) ; Vellasco, Pedro (Editor) ; Rodrigues Ornelas de Lima, Luciano (Editor), CRC Press; Abingdon,Oxon; International Symposium on Tubular Structures, Date: 2015/05/27 - 2015/05/29, Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tubular Structures XV: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27-29 May 2015; 2015; pp. 279 - 286
• Evaluation of construction materials and products, Rossi, Barbara; Bragança, Luis (Editor) ; Koukkari, Heli (Editor) ; Blok, Rijk (Editor) ; Gervàsio, Helena (Editor) ; Veljkovic, Milan (Editor) ; Plewako, Zbigniew (Editor) ; Borg, Ruben Paul (Editor), Gutenberg Press; Malta, Integrated approach towards sustainable constructions: Summary report of the cooperation activities of COST Action C25. Volume 1; 2011; pp. 227 - 235
• Complete repair of dystrophic skeletal muscle by mesoangioblasts with enhanced migratiobn ability (vol 174, pg 231, 2006), Galvez, Beatriz G ; Sampaolesi, Maurilio ; Brunelli, Silvia ; Covarello, Diego ; Gavina, Manuela ; Rossi, Barbara ; Costantin, Gabriela ; Torrente, Yvan ; Cossu, Giulio, Rockefeller University Press, Journal of Cell Biology; 2006; Vol. 174; iss. 4; pp. 605 -
• Comparative study of the life cycle profile of residential masonry and steel framed buildings in Belgium, Massetto de Aquino, Ligia ; Reiter, Sigrid ; Rossi, Barbara; Bragança, Luis (Editor) ; Bragança, Heli (Editor) ; Blok, Rijk (Editor) ; Gervásio, Helena (Editor) ; Veljkovic, Milan (Editor) ; Borg, Ruben Paul (Editor) ; Landolfo, Raffaele (Editor) ; Ungureanu, Viorel (Editor) ; Schaur, Christian (Editor), University of Malta; Malta; Final International Conference of COST Action C25 - Sustainability of Constructions: Towards a better built environment, Date: 2011/02/03 - 2011/02/05, Location: Innsbruck, Austria
  Sustainability of constructions: Towards a better built environment: Proceedings of the Final Conference of COST Action C25; 2011; pp. 295 - 302
• Lifecycle impacts assessment of steel, composite, concrete and wooden columns, Rossi, Barbara ; Lukic, Ivan ; Iqbal, Naveed ; Du, Guangli ; Cregg, Diarmuid ; Borg, Ruben Paul ; Haller, Peter; Bragança, Luis (Editor) ; Koukkari, Heli (Editor) ; Blok, Rijk (Editor) ; Gervásio, Helena (Editor) ; Veljkovic, Milan (Editor) ; Borg, Ruben Paul (Editor) ; Landolfo, Raffaele (Editor) ; Ungureanu, Viorel (Editor) ; Schaur, Christian (Editor), University of Malta; Malta; Final International Conference of COST Action C25 - Sustainability of Constructions: Towards a better built environment, Date: 2011/02/03 - 2011/02/05, Location: Innsbruck, Austria, Sustainability of constructions: Towards a better built environment: Proceedings of the Final Conference of COST Action C25; 2011; pp. 277 - 285

2023 Bev Waugh Medal for Productivity and Culture

2022 ICE Carbon Champion

2011 Youth Science Award

2010 ULiege Alumni Prize

2006 Rotary International District 1630 Award

2006 Foundation Margareta Van Beneden Award

2003 Innovation Prize ArcelorMittal

2003 Infosteel Student Award

Chenying Liu (Engineering Science, Oxford)

Chenying Liu completed her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professors Zhong You and Perla Maiolino. She has worked on modern structures inspired by origami and leveraged their exceptional mechanical properties to design robots with "intelligence". Chenying is currently working at the Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology, where she applies her origami expertise to healthcare applications, including exoskeletons and energy absorptive materials. Chenying will soon join Professor Rossi's group, transitioning her focus to innovative solutions in pursuit of sustainability for "traditional" structures. Chenying is passionate about education access and science outreach. She teaches Structures and Mechanics at Christ Church and was previously Professor Rossi's Tutorial Assistant at New College. Most recently, Chenying gave the prestigious Award Lecture for Engineering, Technology, and Industry at the 2024 British Science Festival.

Burak Karabulut (Engineering Technology, KULeuven)

Burak Karabulut is a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven in the Faculty of Engineering Technology holding an FWO fellowship. His research is supervised by Professor Rossi and co-supervised by Professor Raf Dewil. In his current role, Burak focuses on exploring the mechanical properties, particularly fatigue behavior, of metallic components produced using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). Burak defended his DPhil in April 2021 on the “Fatigue behaviour of duplex welded details”. Previously, he has worked on design solutions aiming at low environmental and economic impact of employing materials such as stainless or carbon steel, aluminium structures, or even their combined use covering failure phenomena such as fatigue, instability, corrosion, earthquake, and fire.

Majid Shamlooei (University of Trento & Engineering Science, Oxford)

Majid Shamlooei is a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, supervised by Professor Rossi. His research concentrates on the finite element modeling of hybrid sections and their behavior under compression and bending. He previously completed a DPhil in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialization in manufacturing, at the University of Trento. Throughout his doctoral studies, he delved into the laser cutting process of structural carbon steel, conducting quality assessments and thermomechanical analyses through experimental and numerical methods. His main focus lies in investigating steel behavior in manufacturing processes and under diverse loading conditions, taking into account material characteristics.

Usman Ali (Engineering Technology, KULeuven & Engineering Science, Oxford) 

Usman Ali is a DPhil candidate supervised by Professor Rossi, with a passion for innovation and sustainable solutions. His research explores stainless-steel hybrid cross-sections as part of the MSCA SeaChem project funded by the European Union. The research’s aim is to improve the durability, efficiency, and sustainability of stainless steel structures for open ocean applications. He is conducting experiments on hybrid stainless steel – carbon steel sections, tested under various loading conditions. Finite element analysis and parametric studies are informed by this analysis. Usman, and his research teammates, are developing new reliable design equations for these structural components to enable more efficient, and more sustainable structural systems, while adhering to Eurocode standards.

Nina Feber (Civil Engineering, CTU & Engineering Science, Oxford) 

Nina Feber is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, under the main supervision of Professor Jandera. She is co-supervised by Professor Rossi. Her recent research focuses on investigating the interaction between compression and bending in stainless steel welded I-section members. Both laboratory tests and advanced numerical models were employed to expand the current knowledge base, validate established design procedures, and ultimately develop a novel method for calculating load capacity across various grades of stainless steel. Through her work, Nina aims to advance the field of civil engineering and contribute to safer and more efficient structural designs.

Mohammad Hassanzadeh (Engineering Technology, KULeuven)

Mohammad Hassanzadeh is a DPhil candidate working in the field of corrosion-fatigue of duplex stainless steel, supervised by Professor Rossi, and co-supervised by Professor Dewil from KU Leuven, and Nicolas Larché from the French Corrosion Institute. Mohammad’s research is funded as part of the MSCA SeaChem project funded by the European Union. Mohammad studies crevice corrosion and fatigue of duplex stainless steels and develops new corrosion monitoring sensors.

Jimmy Jia (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford)

Jimmy Jia is a DPhil candidate studying the metric systems of climate and finance to improve decision making of capital deployment for investing in climate-resilient infrastructure. His interest is in tracking the flow of energy and CO₂ through financial transactions and seeing how they accumulate into assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. He is focused on capital intensive sectors, such as water and power, to help understand the value of assets towards achieving climate goals. Jimmy is collaborating with Professor Rossi on carbon accounting of large construction projects. Jimmy sits on the board of the Center for Sustainable Energy, a San Diego-based non-profit that administers electric vehicle and solar programs across the United States. He also is the ESG Venture Partner at PiLabs, Europe's largest and most active PropTech VC company. He previously received his BS and MS in Material Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Elenor Naraidoo (Engineering Science, Oxford)

Elenor Naraidoo is a DPhil candidate, supervised by Professor Rossi. She graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Bath in 2022 and is a recipient of the Athena Swan Award – a charter established to advance the careers of women in STEM. Elenor is particularly interested in form optimization and the notion of ‘strength through geometry’. She is currently researching the elastic buckling behaviour of perforated metal plates, and the effect of perforations on buckling capacity. Her work is theoretical, computational, and experimental. Elenor has derived both an analytical and empirical prediction of perforated plate strength based on a parametric assessment in ABAQUS. She has discovered that perforations not only reduce material consumption but can also increase the capacity of a plate. Elenor has also conducted Digital Image Correlation experiments on simply supported perforated plates, which are used to inform empirical design methods. Elenor will extend her investigations on plates to the buckling behaviour of closed-form sections.

Maja Ranisavljevic (Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade & Engineering Science, Oxford) 

Maja Ranisavljevic is a DPhil candidate at the University in Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering, supervised by Professor Dobrić. She is co-supervised by Professor Rossi. Maja studies the structural behaviour of I-section columns and beams with web openings. Her research employs experiments and numerical studies and assessed the accuracy and reliability of design predictive methods for cross-section deformation and resistance capacity. Her work will develop new procedures for the design of perforated stainless steel structural elements to ensure safety, and rationale use of materials for low-carbon structures.

Xiongfeng Ruan (Engineering Technology, KULeuven & Engineering Science, Oxford) 

Xiongfeng Ruan is a DPhil candidate, supervised by Professor Rossi. Xiongfeng develops design and optimization methods for wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) of structures. His research attempts to study the mechanical performance of wire-arc additively manufactured structures overcoming traditional inefficient trial and error methods. Considering the potential imperfection of components fabricated by additive technology such as misalignment, residual stress, or surface roughness, computational process optimization has become incredibly important. Xiongfeng is demonstrating the accuracy of his models through experiments on both milled and un-milled WAAM made of traditional carbon steel and Al-Ni-Cu components.

Caya de Leeuw van Weenen (Engineering Technology, KULeuven)

Caya de Leeuw van Weenen is a DPhil candidate working under supervision of Professor Appels (KU Leuven) and co-supervision of professor Barbara Rossi, and Nicolas Larché from the French Corrosion Institute. Her research, which is part of the MSCA SeaChem project, is centered around offshore seaweed cultivation for high value extractables. She studies the environmental fate of chemical emissions from offshore corrosion protection systems and their impact on biomass quality and yield. Located in Brest, she has access to the pristine waters of the Iroise sea, where she performs controlled exposure experiments with local seaweed populations. She is currently assessing the partitioning and bioaccumulation behavior of heavy metals in the seaweed for bioremediation and biomonitoring purposes.

Gregory Langone (Engineering Science, Oxford) 

Gregory Langone is reading for an MSc in Engineering Science by Research at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Rossi. His ongoing research is on hybrid steel sections – which can include carbon steels, high strength steels, and stainless steels. Gregory is currently working to develop a design method and reliability assessment for welded hybrid I-profiles in compression. He employs both numerical and experimental methods in his analysis. This research will enable efficient design of steel sections by accurately predicting the strength of I-profiles with particularly strong flanges. Before arriving at Oxford, Gregory graduated from the United States Miliary Academy at West Point where he studied Civil Engineering and Applied Statistics. Gregory is a recipient of the John and Daria Barry Scholarship which generously supports his study.

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