Meet our Team!
Professors and Researchers
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Marco Vanni
Full Professor
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Daniele Marchisio
Full Professor
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Antonio Buffo
Associate Professor
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Gianluca Boccardo
Associate Professor
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Agnese Marcato
Assistant Professor
Administrative Staff
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Marco Marongiu
RESEARCH FELLOW
Marco holds a Master’s in Political Science and EU project design.
He manages monitoring and reporting for research projects, ensuring partner coordination and compliance.
Ph.D students and Post-doc fellows
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Yi Feng
POSTDOC
Yi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, a Master’s degree in Engineering, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on the numerical simulation of multiphase flows involved in crystallization and emulsification processes.
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Michel Orsi
POSTDOC
Michel holds a Ph.D. in Physics and specializes in the rheology of particulate suspensions. His research integrates experiments and simulations to uncover the physics governing multiphase flows. Currently, he focuses on developing Deep Learning techniques to accelerate particle-scale simulations.
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Alessio Lombardo Pontillo
POSTDOC
Alessio holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on computational modelling and mathematical upscaling of the electrochemical transport in lithium-ion batteries.
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Nunzia Lauriello
POSTDOC
Nunzia holds a Phd in Chemical Engineering, that was focused on advancing Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) as a computational rheology tool. Her research currently deals with the use of coarse-graining techniques and machine learning tools to model soft matter systems.
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Francesco De Roma
PhD STUDENT
Francesco holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. His research uses computational methods at different scales to understand the rheology of structured fluids and improve predictions of their viscosity.
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Mazhar Bayazidi
PhD STUDENT
Mazhar holds a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering. His research combines machine learning and CFD modelling to accelerate the simulation of multiphase flows in mixing equipment.
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Andrea Querio
PhD STUDENT
Andrea hold a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. His research (primarily funded by Electrochemistry Group) mainly focuses on the modelling of Lithium-Sulfur cells at the pore scale to deeper understand the effect of dissolution and precipitation reactions on the global electrochemical performances of the battery.
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Michele Lessona
PhD STUDENT
Michele holds a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in Chemistry. His research (primarily funded by the Crystals Engineering group) combines experiments, thermodynamic models and machine learning to better understand the crystallization of edible fats.
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Diego Fida
PhD STUDENT
Diego holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. His research (primarily funded by CREST group), focuses on the experimental characterization and CFD modelling of multiphase catalytic packed-bed reactors for efficient and sustainable hydrogen production.
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Elisa Buccafusco
PhD STUDENT
Elisa holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Her research focuses on microstructure-resolved simulations of lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, examining how electrode architecture, material composition, and interfacial processes influence cell performance
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Ghasem Beiginalou
PhD STUDENT
Ghasem is currently doing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (primarily funded by ComfortLAB group), concering the design of technical fabrics through numerical modeling and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Vittorio Buscarnera
PhD STUDENT
Vittorio holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on fluid dynamics simulations of highly non-Newtonian fluids, coupled with the study of particles interactions inside a counter-rotating twin-screw extruder, to better understand the underlying phenomena and propose potential optimizations.
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Jacopo Grandis
PhD STUDENT
Jacopo holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. His research (primarily funded by Crystals Engineering group) investigates peptide crystallization and process modelling to better understand nucleation and growth mechanisms.
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Sergio Pio Rendine
PhD STUDENT
Sergio hold a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. His research (in collaboration with ComfortLLAB group) focuses mainly on the modeling of multiphase flow in porous media with the aim of better understanding the absorption and swelling phenomena occurring within AHPs and optimizing their design.
Short-Term Research Fellows
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Martina Gilardi
RESEARCH FELLOW
Martina holds a Master’s degree in Chemical and Sustainable Processes Engineering. Her research focuses on the application of Machine Learning techniques for chemical engineering, with particular emphasis on their implementation in food's shelf-life predictions and their coupling with computational fluid dynamics simulations.
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Martina Gaia Baeli
RESEARCH FELLOW
Martina holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Her research (in collaboration with the Crystals Engineering Group) investigates carbonated compounds precipitation and process modelling in order to explain nucleation and growth mechanisms and improve understanding of fouling effects, in order to optimize equipment and process management.