Postdocs & PhD candidates
MSc & BSc students

Postdocs

Luca Stendardo

Background: Mechanical Engineering, Micro- and nanoscale thermodynamics, Renewable energy

Academic interests: Ice mitigation strategies and their impact on aviation industry. Surface technologies for energy efficiency improvements.

Ongoing projects: Investigations of physics of ice adhesion and the influence on various environmental conditions.

PhD Candidates

Alessandro Migliavacca

a.migliavacca9@campus.unimib.it

Background: Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology, Polymers Science

Academic interests: Sustainable materials for water treatment, Smart polymers

Ongoing projects: Development of innovative materials and technologies for wastewater treatment in the context of appliances

Federica Marelli

f.marelli27@campus.unimib.it

Background: Chemistry

Academic interests: Surface functionalization and characterization, sustainable materials.

Ongoing projects: Polysaccharide-based icephobic materials.

Visiting PhD candidates

Lucas Luís Bergonzi Barcellos

l.bergonzibarcell@campus.unimib.it

visiting PhD student from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Background: Physics

Ongoing projects: Scalable superhydrophobic surfaces

Research assistants

Roberto Pelusio

Slippery covalently attached liquid surfaces (SCALS) on complex substrates

May - October 2026

Master students

Cagatay Omer Cineviz

Laser Surface Modification of Nitinol Shape Memory Alloys: Impact on Surface Morphology and Hydrophobic Properties

@CNR

May 2024- September 2024

Yasaman Bani Asadi

Formulation, purification, and characterization of lipid nanoparticles containing polysaccharides

@Istituto Ronzoni

June 2024- June 2025

Chiara Pizzigoni

Polysaccharide materials for low adhesion

October 2025 - June 2026

Shahin Kharaji

Formulation and characterisation of lipid nanoparticles encapsulating polysaccharides

@Istituto Ronzoni

October 2025-March 2026

Andrea Biffi

Trattamenti termomeccanici su leghe a memoria di forma finalizzati alla modifica delle proprietà superficiali.

@CNR Icmate Lecco

October 2025-May 2026

Caterina Gaviraghi

Attività di ricerca su materiali in ambiente spaziale, con focus su film sottili polimerici e materiali compositi, e delle modalità di degrado determinate da fattori ambientali orbit specific.

@Politecnico di Milano, dipartimento di ingegneria aerospaziale, progetto "Space It Up"

Ottobre 2025- Luglio 2026

Mozhdeh Tavakoli

Advanced Numerical Simulation and Metallurgical Analysis of Surface Strengthening in Superalloys

@CNR - National Research Council

April 2026 – October 2026

Riccardo Albertoni

Charge transfer mechanism during ice sliding and proportionality between charge transfer and de-icing force for different coatings.

@University of Toronto, Canada

May 2026- October 2026

Riccardo Motto

Close loop recycle of sport garments containing PFAS by suitable extraction, dissolution and characterization methods

@Alma Mater Studiorium-UniBo-DICAM

April - October 2026

Luca Pezzotta

Advanced anti icing and de‑icing technologies for aviation

@GE aerospace and advanced technology, Munich, Germany

March - September 2026

Andrea Brevi

3D porous chitosan materials

@Mines Paris, CEMEF (Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux), ANR napkins project

March - July 2026

Agathe Gengembre

Study of the hydrophobic and deicing behaviour of SCALS coated surfaces

visiting student from: Polytech Lille (Materials Sciences), France

April - September 2026

Bachelor students

Matilde Ferri

Materiali a base di polisaccaridi per applicazioni di bassa adesione

April - August 2025

Vincenzo Valerio Licata

Sviluppo di reti superidrofobiche per applicazioni di water harvesting

Periodo: October 2025 - February 2026

Apoorva Gautam

Water fog harvesting

visting student from: Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET), India

February - August 2026

Michele Trecca

Ice adhesion on polysaccharide coatings and materials