Professor Amabili was a Distinguished James McGill professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. At McGill University he held the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction for 14 years. He started his academic career at the University of Parma in Italy in 1997. The obtained his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnical University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, in 1992 and obtained his PhD in Applied Mechanics in 1996 from the University of Bologna in Italy.

His research contributions span several areas of dynamics, solid mechanics and fluid-structure interaction. In particular, he is the author of over 500 scientific papers in vibrations and applied mechanics, over 280 of which are published in prestigious refereed international journals, including multidisciplinary ones like Nature Communications, Physical Review X, and PNAS.

In 2008 Professor Amabili wrote the monograph “Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates” published by Cambridge University Press. For this book, he received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in 2020; this medal was established in 1930 to honor seminal contribution to the permanent literature in engineering.  His second monograph, again for Cambridge University Press, appeared in 2018. In the last three decades, Professor Amabili has made tremendous contributions to the progress of knowledge of nonlinear vibrations of shells and plates made of traditional, advanced composite and soft materials. He is very often invited to deliver plenary and keynote lectures at the most prestigious conferences worldwide.

He is the co-Editor-in Chief of International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, (J. Wiley), Contributing Editor of the International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Journal of Fluids and Structures (Elsevier) and Mechanics Research Communications (Elsevier), Contributing Editor of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. He is member of the editorial board of Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier), Journal of the Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials (Elsevier), and International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. He was Associate Editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews (ASME) and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (ASME).