1)Seminar in Mechanics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 9 April 1997; “Vibrations of structures coupled to heavy stationary fluids: new theoretical and experimental methods”.

2)Invited Seminar, University of Florence, Italy, 15 January 1999; “Nonlinear dynamics and stability of circular cylindrical shells containing flowing fluid”.

3)Invited Seminar at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 14 December 1999; “Non-linear dynamics and stability of circular cylindrical shells with and without fluid-structure interaction”.

4)Seminar in Mechanics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 20 November 2001; “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of circular cylindrical shells with fluid-structure interaction: new theoretical and experimental results”.

5)Invited Plenary Lecture, International Conference on CAE and Computational Technologies for Industry (TCN-CAE 2003), Santa Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Italy, 4 October 2003; title: “Dynamics and fluid-structure interaction”.

6)Invited Seminar at Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), Paris, France, 5 July 2004; title: “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells with fluid-structure interaction”.

7)Invited Seminar at Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, Ukraine, 9 September 2004; title: “Nonlinear dynamics of shells”.

8)Seminar in Mechanics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 7 June 2006; “Reduced-Order Models for Nonlinear Vibrations of Curved Panels. Numerical Problems and Experimental Validation”.

9)Plenary Lecture at the 9th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, 2-5 September 2008, Athens, Greece.

10)Invited Seminar at the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, 25 January 2009; “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

11)Invited Seminar at the University of Arizona University, Tucson, USA, 10 February 2009; “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

12)Invited Seminar at the Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, 12 February 2009; “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

13)Invited Seminar at Purdue University, Purdue, IN, USA, 6 April 2009. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

14)Invited Seminar at Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, USA, 7 April 2009. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

15)Invited Seminar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 6 May 2009. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

16)Invited Keynote Talk, 2nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (Chaos09), 1-5 June 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece.

17)Invited Seminar at Waterloo University, Waterloo, Canada, 8 April 2010. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

18)Invited Seminar at Toronto University, Toronto, Canada, 9 April 2010. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

19)Invited Talk at MICROCAD 2010 Conference, Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, Kharkov, Ukraine, 14 May 2010. “New research on nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates”.

20)Invited plenary lecture, 3rd International Conference Nonlinear Dynamics, 21-24 September 2010, Kharkov, Ukraine. “Polynomial versus trigonometric expansions for nonlinear vibrations of shells with different boundary conditions”.

21)Invited Seminar at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 22 September 2010. “New results on nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells”.

22)Invited Seminar in the Distinguished Lecture Series, Georgia Tech, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Atlanta, 17 March 2011. “New results on nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells”.

23)Invited Seminar, Timoshenko Institute for Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 6 May 2011. “New results on nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells”.

24)Invited plenary lecture, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), November 11-17, 2011, Denver, USA. “New results on nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells”.

25)Invited Seminar at the University of Arizona University, Tucson, USA, 26 January 2012. “Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells: application to stability of a human aorta”.

26)Invited plenary lecture, 10th Jubilee edition of International Conference “Shell Structures, Theory and Applications" 16-18 October 2013, Gdansk, Poland. “Nonlinear vibrations of Shells: Experiments, Simulations and Applications”.

27)Invited Seminar, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, 7 April 2014, Warsaw, Poland. “Nonlinear vibrations of shells and plates in traditional, advanced and soft materials”.

28)Keynote lecture, 8th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2014), 6-11 July 2014, Wien, Austria. Nonlinear vibrations of shell type structures: theory & experiments.

29)Invited plenary lecture, 4th International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration, and Control, 22-25 August 2014, Shanghai, China.

30)Invited plenary lecture, 1st International Conference on Advances in Vibrations, March 30 – April 1, 2015, Porto, Portugal. Nonlinear vibrations of shells made of traditional, advanced and soft materials (ICAV 8815).

31)Invited Seminar at CNAM, Paris, France, 30 April 2015; title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells made of traditional, soft and advanced materials”.

32)Invited plenary lecture, International Conference on Advances in Applied and Computation Mechanics (ACM 2015), August 5–7, 2015, Izmir, Turkey. Nonlinear vibrations of shells made of traditional, advanced and soft materials.

33)Invited Seminar, Technical University of Delft, Faculty of 3mE (Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering), 11 April 2016, Delft, The Netherlands. “Nonlinear vibrations and FSI of plates and shells in traditional, soft and advanced materials: modelling and experiments”.

34)Invited Seminar at CNAM, Paris, France, 3 June 2016; title: “Nonlinear vibrations and FSI of shells in traditional, hyperelastic and advanced materials: modelling and experiments”.

35)Invited plenary lecture, 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics (ND-KhPI2016), September 27-30, 2016, Kharkov, Ukraine. Identification of nonlinear damping for large-amplitude vibrations of plates and curved panels.

36)Invited Seminar at Concordia University in the graduate seminar series, Montreal, 17 October 2016; title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells in traditional, soft and advanced materials: modelling and experiments.

37)Invited Seminar at Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, 5 May 2017; title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells in traditional, hyperelastic and advanced materials: modelling and experiments.”

38)Invited Seminar at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, 2 October 2017; title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells in traditional, hyperelastic and advanced materials: modelling and experiments.”

39)Invited Seminar at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, 4 October 2017; title: “Relationship between nonlinear damping and viscoelasticity.”

40)Invited Keynote Plenary Lecture, 14th International Conference Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications (DSTA2017), 11-14 December 2017, Lodz, Poland; title: “Nonlinear damping: modelling and experiments”.

41)Invited Seminar at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 25 January 2018; title: “Nonlinear damping: modelling and experiments.”

42)Invited Seminar at the University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy, 4 June 2018; title: “Nonlinear damping: modelling and experiments.”

43)Invited Keynote Lecture, 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy, 2-6 July 2018; title: “Derivation of Nonlinear Damping from Linear Viscoelasticity by a Fractional Standard Solid Model and Application to Nonlinear Vibrations”.

44)Invited Plenary Lecture, First International conference “Problems of mechanics and control”, 16-22 September 2018, organized by the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Makhachkala, Russia; title: “Nonlinear damping: modelling and experiments”.

45)Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Seminar at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5 October 2018. Mechanics and dynamics of human descending aorta and woven Dacron grafts: models and experiments.

46)Invited Seminar in the Dynamics Interest series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 5 November 2018; title: “Nonlinear damping in vibrations: experimental evidence and modeling.”

47)Invited Seminar at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, 17 December 2018; title: “Mechanical characterization of healthy and dissected human descending thoracic aortas.”

48)2019 Koiter lecture of the Dutch research school on Engineering Mechanics, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 22 October 2019. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

49)Distinguished Mechanical Engineering Seminar, University of Houston, Houston TX, USA, 1 November 2019; title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological materials and nonlinear damping”.

50)J. Mike Walker ’66 Seminar Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, 22 January 2020. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

51)Invited Seminar at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 30 January 2020. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

52)Invited Seminar at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, 5 March 2020; title: “Nonlinear dynamics of human aortas for material characterization.”

53)Invited Plenary Lecture, EURODYN 2020, XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics, 23-25 November 2020, Athens, Greece (cancelled for covid-19 pandemic). Nonlinear damping in finite-amplitude vibrations of beams, plates and shells: experimental evidence and modelling.

54)Invited Seminar at Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronics Engineering, China, 19 October 2020 (virtual talk); title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter”.

55)JMBBM Frontiers Webinar (J. of the Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials), 18 March 2021; title: “Mechanical and microstructural characterization of the human aorta”.

56)Invited Keynote Lecture, 1st International Conference on Computations for Science and Engineering, 19-20 July 2021, University of Porto, (virtual conference). Nonlinear, third-order thickness and shear deformation theory for composite shells.

57)Invited Keynote Lecture, Online Symposium on Aeroelasticity, Fluid-Structure Interaction, and Vibrations, 14-15 October 2021. Nonlinear vibrations of shells.

58)Invited Seminar, at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 1st November 2021; title: “Experimental activity on active vibration control of composite plates”.

59)Invited Seminar at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, 26 November 2021 (virtual talk); title: “Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter”.

60)Invited Speaker, XXI International Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media – WASCOM2021, Catania, Italy, 6 -10 June 2022.

61)Invited Keynote Lecture, 25th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS’25), Porto, Portugal, 19-21 July 2022. Nonlinear mechanics of sandwich plates.

62)Invited Plenary Speaker, opening lecture, The First International Conference on Mechanical System Dynamics, 24-27 August 2022, Nanjing, China. Nonlinear vibrations of shells; modelling and experiments.

63)Rayleigh Lecture (award), ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), November 2, 2022, Columbus, OH, USA. Nonlinear damping and active control in vibrations: modelling and experiments.

64)Invited Plenary Speaker (opening Lecture), The 12th International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration, 14-15 December 2022, Tehran, Iran. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

65)Invited Seminar, Westlake Master Forum (highest university seminar series), 23 February 2023, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

66)Invited Seminar, Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, 27 February 2023, Ningbo, China. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: from classical problems to soft biological matter.

67)"Yun-Ji" Overseas Academicians’ Lecture, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 8 May 2023.

68)Invited Plenary Speaker, 29th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES2023), 26-29 May 2023, Shenzhen, China. Nonlinear vibrations of shells: classical problems, nonlinear damping and application to vascular biomechanics.

69)Invited Talk, IUTAM Symposium on Soft Matter Mechanics, Ningbo, China, 5-8 December 2023.

70)Invited Plenary Speaker, The 5th International Conference on Modeling in Mechanics and Materials (CMMM2023), Nanning, Guangxi, China, 8-10 December 2023. Modelling nonlinear vibrations of shells and nonlinear damping.

71)Invited Plenary Speaker, Seminar on the Development Strategy of Mechanics at Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, 20-21 April 2024. Nonlinear vibrations of shells and nonlinear damping.

72)Invited Keynote Plenary Speaker, 11th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2024), Delft, The Netherlands, July 22-26, 2024. Nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations of structures and viscoelastic dissipation in biological tissues.

73)Invited Plenary Speaker, Opening Ceremony of the International Society of Mechanical Systems Dynamics (ISMSD), 5 December 2024, Nanjing, China. Nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations of structures.

74)Invited Plenary Speaker, 7th Cross-Strait Symposium on Dynamics, Vibration and Control (SDVC 2024), December 16-22, 2024; 16-19 December in Hong Kong, 20-22 in Macao. Nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations of structures and viscoelastic hysteresis in biological tissues.

75)Invited Seminar, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, 7 January 2025. Vibrations and control of systems and structures in traditional, composite, and biological materials.