Matteo Alessandrini Email & Phone Number

Fällanden, Zh, Ch

Zurich, Switzerland (Faellanden)

The R&D department of Magnets at Bruker BioSpin develops and maintains innovative magnet technologies (superconducting, permanent, and resistive) for applications in the field of NMR, Pre-clinical MRI, EPR, etc.

Faellanden, Zürich

Team Leader, Program Manager, Component Manager.Team Leader, responsible for guiding a team of R&D scientists towards reaching their individual goals. Connect with the team by showing compassion and integrity. Motivate the team by inspiring trust and respect. Develop a strategy and a vision which the team will use to reach its goal. Identify and start new projects with internal funding and/or external support from gvtl funding agencies. Properly delegate tasks to the team members and provide any training that team members need. Communicate clear instructions to team members. Listen to team members' feedback. Monitor team members' participation and commitment. Manage the flow of day-to-day operations. Create reports to update the company on team's progress.Program Manager for multi-year/multi-MCHF new product development. Senior fully trained (Bruker's program, HAUFE Akademy) R&D project leader with several years of experience in the private corporate environment. Responsible for production implementation of early-stage newly developed technologies following the PLM strategy from concept through design, development and production.Component Manager for superconducting wires. Reference person for all types of superconducting technologies tested/ purchased and installed in our magnets. Responsible R&D point of contact for production support and supply chain management in relation to these components, including forecasts, purchases.

Zurich

-Project Leader: Development of novel superconducting magnet technologies for the NMR market.Improvement of existing technologies by increasing production yield and reducing production costs.Definition of budget forecast in several internal and external project proposals.Responsible for project planning, execution, reporting.Evaluate technologies and make recommendations towards definition of future product development roadmaps.Multitasking roles: leading several projects of varying team-size, at the same time.Promoting team building and strong synergy of individual contributions while directing team efforts towards the same clear goals.Assure harmony and trust within the team by promoting effective and critical communication between team members, while making sure that team members feel ownership of their tasks/decisions.-Team member: Serving as the expert of superconducting materials on several internal projects and international collaborations with other companies, academia, and research institutes.Extrapolation of statistically meaningful information (cause-effect correlation studies) based on internal databases.Strongly focused and skilled research engineer with a passion for R&D novelty technology, but also geared towards improving production processes and information flow.-Technical:Gained senior expertise as material scientist specialized in applied superconductivity, magnetism, cryogenics, and in electromechanical characterization of advanced materials in cryogenic environment.

Niskayuna, Ny

Electromagnetics and Superconductivitysetup of test-rigs in the field of MRI medical applicationsCryogenic test-rigs setupMonitoring of high temperature material processes

Houston, Tx

PhD work in a NASA collaboration towards the development of novel superconducting magnets for the electric space propulsion VASIMR engine.Sintering and heat treatment of advanced materialsTeaching assistant for laboratory testing of undergraduate and graduate studentsCold-work material deformation processes, drawing and annealing of Lightweight Ti and Al alloys for space applicationsSetup of laboratory test-rigs in cryogenic environment to measure electromechanical properties of advanced materials and superconducting metals, intermetallic, and ceramic materialsDesign and Test of Superconducting CoilsSetup of laboratory test-rigs to characterize quench behavior of MgB2 magnets

Berkeley, Ca

Physics and dynamics of quench propagation in superconducting composite conductors to be used, for example, in the future magnet technology for the luminosity upgrade of the LHC accelerator at CERN

Milan, Italy

Feasibility study of lightweight MgB2 superconducting magnets for space applications

Houston, Tx

System engineeringThermal behavior of high temperature superconducting magnetsReview of available and future emerging technologies of advanced space propulsion devices

Phd, Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Internship at INFN-LASA, Milan (Italy) - Internship at LBNL, Berkeley (CA) - Program Committee Member.

Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Graduate Studies, courses on Radiation Heat Transfer, Physical Electronics, Numerical Methods and Statistics.

Laurea - Master, Mechanical Engineer

Activities and Societies: - Student and Professional Parabolic Flight Campaign with European Space Agency, in Bordeaux, France - Thesis.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Space Studies

Activities and Societies: 2003 Feb.: study trip to French Guyana - European Spaceport 2003 Mar.-May: internship at NASA-JSC Advanced Space.

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