IN MEMORY OF MAURIZIO LEGGERI

April 16, 2018

We wish to remember a great professional and, above all, a friend with whom we have developed many ambitious projects for over 15 years. It was exciting to work under the guide of one of the greatest Italian seismologists and engineers.

On April 13, 2018, we have lost a great man who, with his semplicity, his desire to share experiences and skills, his joy of living the job as a continuous challenge to be faced in a group, has taught many technicians and professionals the sense of responsibility and the importance of the role that belong to the figure of the engineer.

When in 2000s, Maurizio Leggeri assumed the role of technical director of Geocart, he was already one of the leading experts in earthquake engineering at an international level and co-founder of the National Department of Civil Protection.

Among the founders of CGIAM, Center of Integrated Geomorphology for the Mediterranean Area, he held the role of President from 1988 to 2012 and, subsequently, that of Honorary President.

After graduating in Civil Engineering in 1957, he specialized in Steel Construction, Geotechnics and Foundations, Seismic Analysis and Dynamics of Structures. The high level of his technical and scientific expertise led him to teach in several Italian and international universities including the University of California in Berkeley and the University of Missouri.

Maurizio Leggeri has designed, in collaboration with the INGV National Institute of Geophysics, the first seismometric network of the Basilicata region, covering between 1994 and 1995 the role of President of the Provincial Committee of Civil Protection and the position of external Assessor of the Province of Potenza, with responsibility for Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Soil Protection and Civil Protection.

The engineer has taught all those who have met him, as a person and as a professional, the love of knowledge and the courage to overcome obstacles. He has transmitted a principle that many people have made their own: we must study the environment in all its components to improve people's lives.

Maurizio Leggeri leaves an extraordinary legacy and his disappearance creates a void in who has had the opportunity to appreciate in him the intellectual strength, the scientific value, the love for freedom and moral tension.

Goodbye Maurizio.