Giorgio Zavarise was born at Cornuda (Treviso, Italy) the June 27th, 1959. He is resident at Cornuda (TV). He took his B.Sc. Degree in Structural Engineering at the University of Padova in March 1986, summa cum laude. His thesis was granted by ALUMINIA group.

Habilitated to the engineering profession on May, 1986 with 120/120. Appointed Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics the October 10th, 1991 with full approval by the members of examination commission.

He won a post-doctorate position in Civil Engineering the July, 7, 1992, From November, 1st, 1993 he got a permanent position as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Padua. From November 1st, 1998 he is Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics (H07A - ICAR08 group) at the 2nd Engineering Faculty of Politecnico di Torino.

Member of Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) and of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC) as well as of the European Mechanics Association (EUROMECH). He is author of 1 Book Chapter and more than 80 papers, 24 in International Journals and 42 in Conference Proceedings. Teaching activity courses: Structural Mechanics, Mechanics of Concrete and Steel Structures, Finite Element Methods in Engineering, Continuum Mechanics. Lectures in other courses: Structural Mechanics II, Structural Dynamics, Theory of Structures, Computational Analysis of Structures.

The scientific activity is mainly developed with international cooperations, including Darmstadt and Hannover Universities in Germany and the University of California in Berkeley. Several topics of mechanics of solids have been considered although the research is mainly focalized in contact mechanics.

In particular he developed constitutive relationships of micro-mechanical kind, with thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanical coupling, suitably devoted to numerical modeling of interface behaviour.Another field concerns the development of specific algorithms to enhance the computational efficiency.