Deplotic develops deployable and retractable robotic manipulators for more sustainable andefficient space missions.• Award: Second Place at #T-Tec 2023, held by Telespazio and Leonardo, in the Category "Prototype" with IDRA - Inflatable and Deployable Robotic Arm.

• Advancement of development activities for the IDRA project to increase the TRL.• Tender preparation and writing.• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.• Speaker at the 9th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE; the IFToMM World Congress 2023, Tokyo, Japan; the IEEE MetroAeroSpace 2024, Lublin, Poland.• International Technical Committee at the 4th International Conference on… Show more • Advancement of development activities for the IDRA project to increase the TRL.• Tender preparation and writing.• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.• Speaker at the 9th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE; the IFToMM World Congress 2023, Tokyo, Japan; the IEEE MetroAeroSpace 2024, Lublin, Poland.• International Technical Committee at the 4th International Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2024), Singapore. Show less

Course "Mechatronics", Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with ~180 students each yearAY 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25.The classes focused on the control of a hydraulic servo actuator, involving a phase of experimentation on a test bench, followed by a phase focused on modeling the control system and the physical system using Matlab/Simulink.

• Design, modeling and development of IDRA (formerly POPUP): a novel deployable soft robot for aerospace applications. This project was the primary focus of my PhD research and laid the foundation for Deplotic, a startup supported by Politecnico di Torino.• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling… Show more • Design, modeling and development of IDRA (formerly POPUP): a novel deployable soft robot for aerospace applications. This project was the primary focus of my PhD research and laid the foundation for Deplotic, a startup supported by Politecnico di Torino.• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling, Matlab/Simulink/Simscape simulations, prototyping, control, testing in extreme conditions (high temperature, high pressure).• Support for the development of collision avoidance algorithms for trajectory generation for a Cartesian sorting machine.• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in Mechanical, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering.• Consultant and Corporate Trainer with Poliedra S.p.A and Consorzio Gamma Servizi.• Speaker at the 3rd IFToMM ITALY Conference (2020), online; the International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace (2021), online; the 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2021) in Dubai, UAE; the 31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria (2022). Show less

• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling, Matlab/Simulink/Simscape simulations, prototyping.• Collaborative Robotics.• Speaker at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington D.C. (USA).

Developed by Collège des Ingénieurs Italia, Politecnico di Torino and CERN Ideasquare, Innovation 4 Change is one of the major Italian innovation projects based on the collaboration with companies, institutions and non-profit organizations. Each year, this project involves 50 talented young students, 35 MBA students from CDI Italia and 15 Ph.D. students from Politecnico di Torino with a scientific-engineering background. They are divided into groups and supported by researchers from CERN… Show more Developed by Collège des Ingénieurs Italia, Politecnico di Torino and CERN Ideasquare, Innovation 4 Change is one of the major Italian innovation projects based on the collaboration with companies, institutions and non-profit organizations. Each year, this project involves 50 talented young students, 35 MBA students from CDI Italia and 15 Ph.D. students from Politecnico di Torino with a scientific-engineering background. They are divided into groups and supported by researchers from CERN and the Politecnico di Torino to develop business ideas capable of positively impacting the challenges linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG).• Main partners: Enel Foundation, the first knowledge partner of I4C; the storytelling school Scuola Holden; Enel X.• Co-Author of the paper "Incentivizing sustainable mobility through an impact innovation methodology", on CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (2020) Show less