Professor Filippo Giustozzi
Professor
Professor
Professor Filippo Giustozzi is an accomplished expert specialising in road and airport infrastructure. He earned his second Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University (USA) and served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Sustainable and Resilient Pavements at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in the USA from 2017 to 2022.
Since 2008, he has been actively involved in numerous significant road and airport construction projects worldwide. Professor Giustozzi engages in collaborative efforts with national and international government bodies, local governments, industry, and product stewardship associations. These collaborations aim to deliver projects covering a wide range of topics, primarily focusing on the sustainability of transport infrastructure and the use of recycled materials for road and airport applications.
Within RMIT University, Professor Giustozzi leads the Intelligent Materials for Road and Airport Pavements research group. He manages the largest university-based, fully-equipped asphalt, and bitumen laboratory in Australia. This state-of-the-art facility currently employs over 20 researchers with diverse backgrounds, spanning civil engineering, materials science, chemistry, and environmental science.
Prof. Giustozzi and his team are dedicated to delivering practical research outcomes that significantly advance the Australian infrastructure sector and update current technical specifications. This is achieved through nationally relevant projects focusing on the use of recycled materials in roads and airports.
In recent years, he has established the largest fully-equipped university-based laboratory in Australia for asphalt and bituminous materials, capable of conducting a variety of tests. This cutting-edge facility spans chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and materials science, with a specific emphasis on the sustainability of transport infrastructure.
Prof. Giustozzi and his team have been pioneers in developing the first testing protocol for assessing microplastics release from road pavements, high-temperature emissions from asphalt materials, and leaching of pollutants from asphalt pavements. Prof. Giustozzi played a leading role in the national Austroads project APT6305 on Road-grade recycled plastics for sustainable asphalt pavements, funded by the Transport and Infrastructure Council, which brings together Commonwealth, State, Territory, and New Zealand Ministers for Transport.
Their research outcomes have led to several new field applications, including the construction of real roads using innovative and sustainable products. Within his team, they also possess expertise in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting of materials, with a clear focus on the decarbonization of transport infrastructure.
Roads, Airports, Transport infrastructure, Pavements, Asphalt, Bitumen, Recycling, Sustainability, Life cycle assessment, Polymers, Fibres, End-of-life tyres, Recycled plastics, Rejuvenators, Carbon footprint, Net-zero transport infrastructure
Publications
Projects
Awards
Science of The Total Environment, 751, 141842
J Santos, A Pham, P Stasinopoulos, F Giustozzi. (2021).
Journal of Cleaner Production, 266, 121988
S Nizamuddin, M Jamal, R Gravina, F Giustozzi. (2020).
International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 1-15
IB Joohari, F Giustozzi. (2021).
Lead CI: Filippo Giustozzi, $1.4 mil, 24 months
2021 - 2022
Lead CI: Filippo Giustozzi, $155,000 ; 18 months
2020 - 2021
Co-CI: Filippo Giustozzi, $12 mil, 5 years
2016 - Present
Award date: 2020
Recipients: Filippo Giustozzi
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Filippo Giustozzi
Award date: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Recipients: Filippo Giustozzi
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Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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