Vitae


Current positions

Assistant Professor (Dec. 2021 - present)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

Work topic: soft robotics-enabled biological transformation of manufacturing

UNINA Team Leader (Nov. 2020 - present)
BIOIC Project

Scientific and technical responsible of the BIOIC project for the UNINA side.

Scientific Consultant (Jan. 2015 - present)
CREATE Consortium

Design, modeling, simulation and control of flexible robots for maintenance and inspection in nuclear fusion reactors.

CEO and Co-Founder (Aug. 2021 - present)
HEROBOTS

Bioinspired soft robotic technologies for enabling challenging applications in remote environments.

CEO and Co-Founder (June 2020 - present)
ETA BIOENGINEERING

Wearable soft robotic technologies for measurement and assistance of human movements.

Head of Product Development (June 2021 - present)
ROBOSAN

Robotic sanitizer for tubes full of biological samples.

Head of Product Development (Nov. 2019 - present)
BEYONDSHAPE

3D body scanner for medical applications.


Past experiences

Postdoctoral Scholar (Mar. 2018 - Dec. 2021)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

Work topic: soft robotics for industrial and medical applications

Visiting Research Fellow (Nov. 2020 - Dec. 2020)
Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE), UK Atomic Energy Authority / Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Work topic: multibody modeling and simulations of the telescopic articulated remote manipulator

Visiting Ph.D. Student (Aug. 2016 - Dec. 2016)
Georgia Institute of Technology

Work topic: Vibration control for nonlinear flexible systems

Visiting Ph.D. Student (Apr. 2016 - July 2016)
University of Maryland

Work topic: Geometrically exact beam modeling for slender robots

Visiting Research Fellow (Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2016)
Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE), UK Atomic Energy Authority / Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Work topic: structural simulator for robotic remote handling in hazardous domains


Education

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Nov. 2014 - Feb. 2018)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

Dissertation: "Geometric soft robotics: a finite element approach"

MSc in Mechanical Engineering for Design and Manufacturing (Sep. 2012 - Oct. 2014)
University of Naples Federico II

Grade: 110/110 cum laude

BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Sep. 2009 - Sep. 2012)
University of Naples Federico II

Grade: 110/110 cum laude


Main awards

Best paper award for alliances (September 2021)

Award received at the conference "OMC Med Energy Conference 2021" for the paper "Remote handling system for the DTT fusion reactor: a system engineering approach for preliminary conceptual design of the main robotic equipment".

Innovation 4.0 Prize (February 2021)

First prize in the category "University and Research" for the "Innovation 4.0 Prize", assigned at "Automation and Testing 2021" to the project "SIAM0-SOFT: progettazione di un Sistema Innovativo per Applicazioni di Misura e manutenzione 4.0 basato su tecnologie di SOFT robotica" (link)

Best paper presented by a young researcher (June 2019)

Award received at the conference "2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT" for the paper "Evaluation of human joint angles in industrial tasks using OpenSim".

Georges Giralt PhD Award (March 2019)

Award received for the Ph.D. Thesis "Geometric soft robotics: a finite element approach". The Georges Giralt PhD Award is assigned annually by euRobotics AISBL to the best European PhD thesis in robotics (link)

EUROfusion Engineering Grant (March 2015)

Grant received for the three-years project FlexARM "Flexible robots enabling Autonomous Remote Maintenance in nuclear fusion environments" from EUROfusion