Stefano Beretta got his PhD at Kyushu University in 1997 (Supervisor Prof. Y. Murakami) and since then he has been making his career at the Politecnico di Milano, where he became Full Professor in 2002. He teaches the courses on: i) Advanced Machine Design; ii) Structural Reliability of Aerospace components.
From 2024 he has been appointed Visiting Professor at Auburn University, National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME).
His main research interests are: fatigue and damage tolerance assessment of railway components together with planning of maintenance and inspections; development of probabilistic methods for defect analysis and assessment under LCF and HCF; the application of DIC to the analysis of fatigue damage and crack closure; ii) the fatigue and fracture of AM materials. In 2019 he was conferred the ASTM Award of Excellence in Additive Manufacturing Research.