Associate Professor
Associate Professor Filippo Giustozzi is an expert in road and airport pavement materials. He completed his second Ph.D. at Virginia Tech University (USA) and is 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.
He has participated in several major road and airport construction projects since 2008. Dr. Giustozzi collaborates with national and international government bodies, local governments, industry and product stewardship associations to deliver projects on a variety of topics with practical outcomes, mainly on polymer-modified bitumen and recycled materials for road applications.
At RMIT University, he is leading the Intelligent Materials for Road and Airport Pavements research group and is managing the only university-based fully-equipped asphalt and bitumen laboratory in Australia, which currently employs more than 20 researchers with backgrounds spanning from civil engineering, materials science, chemistry to environmental science.
Filippo and his team delive practical research outcomes to rapidly advance the Australian infrastructure sector. This is done by developing nationally-relevant projects on the use of recycled materials in roads.
Over the past years, he has developed the only fully-equipped university-based laboratory in asphalt and bituminous materials in Australia capable of running a variety of tests. This laboratory also encompasses chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering and materials science with a specific focus on sustainability of transport infrastructure.
He and his team have pioneered and developed the first testing protocol for the assessment of microplastics release from road pavements. Filippo is currently leading the national Austroads project APT6305 on Road-grade recycled plastics for sustainable asphalt pavements, funded by the Transport and Infrastructure Council that brings together Commonwealth, State, Territory and New Zealand Ministers for Transport.
Their research outcomes have fostered several new field applications where real roads have been built using innovative and sustainable products. Within his team, they also have expertise in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting of materials with a clear focus on the decarbonisation of transport infrastructure.
Roads, Airports, Transport infrastructure, Pavements, Asphalt, Bitumen, Recycling, Sustainable pavements, Life cycle assessment, Polymer modified bitumen, Crumb Rubber, Recycled plastics, Rejuvenators, Carbon footprint, Net-zero transport
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
As per projects
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 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
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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