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Born in Naples in 1926, Dr. Prof. Ing. Fabrizio de Miranda graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1950 from the University of Naples.

Since 1952, he has worked in the field of bridge and structural design. In 1959, he became the choice Managing Director of the largest italian steelwork company, "Costruzioni Metalliche Finsider S.p.A." in Milan, which was under his management until 1967.

Since 1965, he was professor in "Structural Engineering" and, since then, has taught this subject at the Polytechnic of Milan until 1999.

In 1968, he founded a bridge and structure design consultancy in Milan.

He has been one of founders and the Chairman of the Italian Steel Building Engineering Association and a member of several national government committees for technical standards.

During more than fifty years of professional activity, he has designed hundreds of structures and bridges, many of which were the state of the art at the time they were built.

Since 1960, he has introduced concepts and practices for steel and concrete composite structures in Italy where he designed the first Composite Viaducts for highway and railway bridges.

Since 1970, he designed a number of cable-stayed bridges, introducing innovative concepts and structural layouts as can be seen in the Parana' bridges, first roadway and railway longspan cable-stayed bridges, or in the lndiano bridge in Florence, first earth-anchored cable-stayed bridge with central planes of cables, single inclined masts, vented deck, or in the Rande bridge, the longest and slenderest span at the time of construction, or the designing of the very long span cable-stayed bridge at the Messina Strait.

Prof. De Miranda is the author of myriad publications (90 papers and 8 books) on steel and reinforced-concrete structures, as well as bridge design, construction procedures and long span bridges theory and practice.