Filippo Masi received the 2021 Centrale Innovation thesis prize.He carried out his thesis, entitled ”Fast-dynamic response and failure of masonry structures of non-standard geometry subjected to blast loads“, at GeM under the supervision of Ioannis Stefanou (École Centrale de Nantes) and Paolo Vannucci (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and defended it in December 2020.
Centrale Innovation is the technology transfer subsidiary of the Écoles Centrales of Lyon, Nantes and Marseille and of the École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne.