Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab

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Matteo Arricca

Matteo defended his thesis on "Finite strain chemo-thermo-electro-mechanics with applications in mechanobiology" at University of Brescia (Italy) in 2022. He was supervised by Alberto Salvadori and Robert McMeeking, within a joint coooperation between the University of Brescia and the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Currently he is post-doc at the University of Pavia, Italy
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Alberto Baldelli

Alberto was born in the province of Bergamo, Italy and received his master's degree in Industrial Engineering at the Universita' degli studi di Brescia in the area of Fracture Mechanics (2011). He started his PhD at the University of Alberta in the field of Surface Engineering (2011). Afterwards, Alberto achieved his PhD in the area of particle engineering. His PhD thesis focused on the characterization of the particle formation process of drugs used for treatments of pulmonary diseases. Alberto applied to two scholarships, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Killam in order to start a postdoctorate at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the area of aerosol science. In particular, he studies the particle formation of carbon black agglomerates, produced by flaring and flowback operations. Currently he is senior lecturer at the University of Brisbane, Australia
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Apu Basak

Apu holds a master's degree in Computational Mechanics from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and currently is a PhD candidate in DRIMI (Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) at the University of Brescia. His research interest is in topology optimization, modelling, simulation and development of materials for energy storage and harvesting. He obtained his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh and has industrial experience as Mechanical and Maintenance Engineer.
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Emanuela Bosco

Emanuela defended her thesis on "Computational homogenization formulations for localization and multiphysics phenomena in energy storage materials." at University of Brescia (Italy) in 2013 as a Ph.D. student of "Methods and mathematical models for engineering applications" in Brescia. Currently she holds an associate professorship position at TU/Eindhoven, The Netherland .
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Buket Boz

Buket defended her thesis on "Complementary experiments, modeling and simulations of innovative Li-ion batteries" at University of Brescia (Italy) in 2021. She was supervised by Alberto Salvadori and Jennifer Schaefer, within a joint cooperation between the University of Brescia and the University of Notre Dame, USA. Currently she helds a position at the Austrian Institute of Technology
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Andrea Colombi

Andrea obtained his M.S. in Management Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2009. His master thesis on Hierarchical matrices applied to FEM/BEM problems was developed with the supervision of Prof. Salvadori and Prof. Le Borne at TTU Tennessee. In 2013 he obtained his PhD in seismology from ETH Zurich with a thesis entitled "Numerical Modelling Across the Scale: from Seismic Interferometry to the Core-Mantle Boundary". After a two years post-doc at the laboratory ISTerre in Grenoble working on laboratory acoustic, seismic metamaterials and passive seismology, he his now a research associate in the department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. His primary research interests are: numerical solid mechanics, laboratory acoustic, seismic metamaterials and structural monitoring using passive seismology at various scales. He is currently Professur fuer Strukturmechanik at ETH, Switzerland .
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Valentina Damioli

Valentina defended her thesis on "A mechano-biological model of the coupling between cellular contractility and VEGFR2/VEGF interactions." at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2018 as a Ph.D. student at DRIMI (Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering). She holds a post-doc position at SISSA, Trieste, Italy .
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Tanmay Dev

Tanmay completed his Master Degree in Process Engineering and Energy Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven. He has experience of working with aluminum anodizing and zinc-ion battery. Currently his research area is in the Multiphysics and Multiscale modelling of Li-ion battery and investigation and characterization of thicker functionalized electrode, particularly diffusion, intercalation of Li into the electrodes and resultant mechanical stress on active particles. Currently he holds a prominent position at Capgemini, Munich, Germany.
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Sahar Esmizadeh

Sahar received her BSc degree from BKATU University in 2015, and MSc degree from University of Isfahan University in 2018 with focus on fracture mechanics of two-phase electrode in lithium batteries. Since 2018 she is a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering program, University of Isfahan. At the beginning of her PhD, she has been working on various aspects of micromechanics of energy storage materials, including modelling dislocation formation in Li-ion battery materials. Her research has also been directed toward modelling interaction between a solute atmosphere and material defects such as voids and cracks using Monte Carlo simulations. Since November 2021, she joined the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Industriale (DIMI) at Universitˆ degli Studi di Brescia as a visiting researcher with focus on dendrite growth into solid-state lithium battery electrolytes. Currently she holds a Marie-Curie fellowship at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Davide Grazioli

Davide defended his thesis on "Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling of Li-Ion Battery Cells" at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2015 as a Ph.D. student of "Methods and mathematical models for engineering applications" in Brescia. Currently she holds a post-doc position at the University of Padua, Italy.
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Marco Magri

Marco defended his thesis on "A theory for the analysis of electro-chemo-mechanical systems and its application to Li-ion batteries" at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2018 as a Ph.D. student of "Methods and mathematical models for engineering applications" in Brescia. Currently he holds a post-doc position at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
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Francesco Pizzocolo

Francesco Pizzocolo received his MSc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2008. In 2008 he moved to the Technical University of Eindhoven, where he worked until 2012. His research at the TU/e focused on numerical and experimental aspects of crack propagation in porous media. Currently he is Scientist Innovator at TNO (Research of Applied Science of the Netherlands) in the Petroleum Geoscience group. His research is mainly devoted to wellbore instability, CO2 storage and induced seismicity.
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Mattia Zammarchi

Mattia Zammarchi achieved his Master Degree in Civil Engineering (structural curriculum) at the University of Brescia in 2014. His work concerns the study of the propagation of fracture in 3D, with particular reference of developing new suited high order Boundary Elements, by means of analytical integrations. The master's dissertation focused on the development of high-order shape functions for triangular elements, that allow to describe the displacement jump along for curved crack-front. Mattia Zammarchi lives and works in Minneapolis, USA.

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