Academic staff

Eliodoro Chiavazzo, PhD
Full Professor - Group Director

Pietro Asinari, PhD
Full Professor (Temporary Academic Leave)
Scientific Director at INRiM

He received his B.S. and M.S. (cum laude) in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Since 2007, he has (co-)authored over 100 peer reviewed publications and 5 patents. In 2013, he has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Princeton University. Since 2016, he serves as Editor of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature). Research fields: Engineering thermodynamics; Energy storage technologies; Transport phenomena at micro and nano scale; Classical Molecular Dynamics. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

He received his B.S. and M.S. (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Energetics. He is Full Professor of Heat and Mass Transfer and a member of the PhD Board in Energetics. Since 2002, he has (co-)authored over 90 publications in international journals. He is member of the Board of the European Materials Modeling Council. He won the ENI Award. Research fields: Heat Transfer; Transport theory; Kinetic modeling; Classical Molecular Dynamics; Thermodynamics; Numerical modelling and HPC. He is currently on a Temporary Academic Leave as he was appointed Scientific Director of INRiM starting from March 2020. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

 

Matteo Fasano, PhD
Associate Professor - Group Co-Director

Luca Bergamasco, PhD
Assistant Professor - RTD/B

He received his M.S. (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering in 2011, collaborating with the Molecular Biotechnology Center, and his PhD in 2015. In 2013, he was visiting scientist at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (TX, USA). He won the Optime award. He was fellow of Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato. Research fields: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo methods for bio-nanotechnologies; Heat and mass transfer at the nanoscale; Nanomedicine; Nanofluids; Energy storage. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

He received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering at Politecnico di Torino, with a thesis made at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). He did his PhD in fluid mechanics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a post-doc at the Sorbonne University - UPMC Paris VI (France). In 2023, he was granted a fellowhip at the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry. Research fields: physics of fluids; droplets, soap films and foams; solar fuels; machine learning. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

 

Matteo Morciano, PhD
Assistant Professor - RTD/A

He received his B.S. and M.S. (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He carried out his master thesis in the Complex Multiscale Systems group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. The study was focused on the study of fluid dynamics and rheological properties of fluids in nanoconfined geometries. Primary research fields: solar systems; solar concentration; water treatment. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

Post-docs

Paolo De Angelis
Molecular dynamics

Francesco Bellussi
Molecular dynamics

He received his B.S and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2017, with a thesis on CFD combustion modeling for an NG-H2 Engine (GasOn project), using the code CONVERGE. He is currently working on molecular dynamics and numerical modeling, renewable energy potentials and policies. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

He received his B.S and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2019. He carried out his master thesis on molecular dynamics for nanocomposite materials in the department of advanced modelling and characterization of materials at ITAINNOVA (Zaragoza, Spain). He is currently working on materials modelling for innovative energy devices. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

 

Amit Kumar Mishra, PhD
Experimental lab

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Banaras Hindu University: BHU India) in 2014 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2020 from the Homi Bhabha National Institute (Mumbai India). He has post-doc research experience (IITK India; 2020-2022). He has research experience in the fields of energy materials (PCMs), nanofluids and thermal properties. He is currently working on thermal properties of composite PCMs and DynPCMs for energy applications. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

PhD students

Giovanni Trezza
Machine Learning

Roberta Cappabianca
Molecular dynamics

He received his B.S. and M.S. (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2019. He carried out his master thesis about an information theory inspired algorithm for speeding up the sampling of high dimensional systems (e.g., biomolecules) in the department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Bio physics (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). He is currently working on Artificial Intelligence based screening of materials for energy applications. In this context, he was visiting PhD at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). See publications on ResearchGate.

She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 2017. She continued her studies at Politecnico di Torino, where she received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2020. She carried out her master thesis on investigating the bio-nano interfaces and the interactions with inorganic matter through a molecular modeling approach at Leiden University. She is currently working on multi-scale modeling for the preparation of advanced materials for energy storage applications. She collaborated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) to study the phenomena occurring at the interface between the anode and the electrolyte in lithium ion batteries. See See publications on ResearchGate.

 

Alessandro Ribezzo
Continuum modeling

Atta Muhammad
Molecular dynamics

He received his B.S and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2020, with a thesis on RANS simulation in complex terrain with the presence of the canopy in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is currently working on enhancing transport phenomena in phase change composites for thermal energy storage. In this context, he collaborated with the research center of ENEA Portici and the GREiA research group of Universitat de Lleida. See publications on ResearchGate.

He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan in 2015 with a final year project Design, Analysis, and fabrication of a Solar Parabolic trough Collector for Water Heating. After his bachelor, he worked as a lab engineer in various educational institutions in Pakistan for 2 years. He earned a grant from HEC, Government of Pakistan for M.S. and PhD. He continued his studies at Politecnico di Torino, where he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2019. He carried out his master thesis on Modeling thermo physical properties of carbon reinforced polymer composites. He is currently working on atomistic modeling and experimental characterization of plastic crystals as solid-solid phase change materials for thermal energy storage. Research fields: Classical Molecular dynamics simulation, Heat transfer at the nanoscale, Finite Element Modelling, Energy storage and Nanocomposites. See publications on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

 

Marina Provenzano
Molecular dynamics

Matteo Maria Piredda
Continuum modeling

She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2021, with a thesis on continuum simulations of the wettability of micro structured surfaces. She worked on modeling the heat and mass transfer phenomena occurring in water treatment devices and for the purpose of hydrogen production. Her PhD research activity mainly focuses on employing classical and advanced molecular simulation methods to analyze material properties and interface phenomena involved in recycling processes of polymeric materials.

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2022. He carried out his master thesis dealing with implementing a pipeline for performing numerical investigations of turbulent boundary layers control via uniform blowing and suction on transonic wing profiles in the Institut für Strömungsmechanik (ISTM) of the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). He is currently working on Lattice Boltzmann Method CFD techniques applied to multiphase flows.

 

Giulio Barletta
Machine Learning

Alessio Mondello
Experimental lab

He received his B.Sc. (cum laude) and M.Sc. (cum laude) in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2023, and his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago in 2023. Here he developed his master thesis focused on the application of machine learning techniques for the prediction of the water production capacity of an a tmospheric water harvesting device. He is currently working on Artificial Intelligence based screening of materials and formation processes for perovskite solar cells.

He received his B.S. (cum laude) in Chemistry and Chemical Technology in 2020 and M.S. (cum laude and Honorable Mention) in Environmental Chemistry in 2023 from Università degli Studi di Torino. He then pursued a research scholarship focusing on innovative materials for long-term, thermo-chemical energy storage (TCES) at Politecnico di Torino. He is currently working on artificial intelligence assisted experimental screening of promising materials for seasonal, low-temperature TCES, specifically on cement-based composite materials that incorporate salt within a porous matrix for sorption based TCES.

 

Stefan Morosanu
Experimental lab

Roberto Raffaele Meo
Continuum modeling

He received his M.S. (cum laude) from Politecnico di Torino, and was a participant in the elite program "Percorso per i Giovani Talenti". His academic excellence led to a semester at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, enhancing his international perspective. His master thesis on passive thermal desalination contributed innovative insights into water treatment processes, leading to two publications in a reference journal. His research interests lie in energetics, specifically, in thermal technologies for water treatment. Additionally, his experience as a software developer at Accenture has equipped him with practical skills in technology integration, preparing him for a PhD in Energetics.

 

Davide Forte
System modeling

Visiting

Jaime Arturo de la Torre
Fundamental physics

He received his B.S. in Physics at the University of Seville. He received his M.S. in Physics of Complex Systems and his PhD in Sciences at the UNED, under the supervision of Pep Español. He visited the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (Germany) and he was visiting scholar at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York (USA). After the PhD, he enrolled the SMaLL group at the Politecnico di Torino for six months with a José Castillejo Grant. He is Associate Professor at UNED, where he teaches Computational Physics, Experimental Physics, and Transport Phenomena in Soft Matter. As a researcher, he works on statistical mechanics of complex fluids out of equilibrium, soft matter modeling at multiple scales, and computational methods for Stochastic Differential Equations. See publications on Google Scholar.

Alumni

♦ Matteo Alberghini, PhD - Gemmate, Italy

♦ Mariella Almiento - Casta srl, Italy

♦ Masoud B. Bigdeli, PhD - ACV Auctions, Canada

♦ Remo Boccacci - Terna, Italy

♦ Annalisa Cardellini, PhD - SUPSI, Switzerland

♦ Antonio Fabio Di Rienzo, PhD - Rolls Royce, UK

♦ Gabriele Falciani, PhD - ENEL, Italy

♦ Gabriele Humbert, PhD - Empa, Switzerland

♦ Salvador Izquierdo, PhD - University of Zaragoza, Spain

♦ Ali Khodayari, PhD - KU Leuven, Belgium

♦ Francesco Libbi, PhD - EPFL, Switzerland

 


♦ Davide Lizzi - Saurer Fibrevision Limited, UK

♦ Giulia Mancardi, PhD - MA Computer, Italy

♦ Amir Ghorbani Ghezeljehmeidan - TU Delft, NL

♦ Shahin Mohammad Nejad, PhD - ASML, Netherlands

♦ Francesco Robotti, PhD - HYLOMORPH AG, Switzerland

♦ Uktam Salomov, PhD - Fergana Polytechnic, Uzbekistan

♦ Indraneel Sen, PhD - Wasabi Innovations, Bulgaria

♦ Francesco Signorato - Nebuly, USA

♦ Rajat Srivastava, PhD - University of Salento, Italy

♦ Hernán Chávez Thielemann - TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

♦ Luigi Ventola, PhD - DENSO Thermal Systems, Italy