Professor Giuseppe MATILDI was born in Bari on 02/03/1948 and graduated in Trieste in Civil and Transport Engineering on 12/07/1972.

He was professor of Construction Techniques at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bologna, in charge of the programme in "Steel Constructions", thereafter called "Theory and Design of Steel Constructions”, at the faculty from 1983 to 2006.

Immediately after graduation he took over the Matildi Civil Engineering firm, today known as MATILDI + PARTNERS, and the company Matildi Engingeering S.r.l., initially working alongside his father Pietro and holding management responsibilities from the early 1980s.

For four years during the 1990s he was a member of the Management Board of the Engineers' Association of Bologna.