Curriculum Vitae

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Research and Professional experience

  • Bosch Research Center (Sunnyvale, CA) - Energy Technologies Department
  • Senior Research Engineer, July 2017 -
  • - Model energy storage devices and advanced algorithms for battery management systems
  • - Analyze material and cell-design requirements for enabling high energy-density solid- state batteries with Li-metal anodes
  • - Predict catalyst degradation for PEM fuel cell cathodes via mesoscale modeling
  • - Model of pH modulation and DNA sequencing devices in collaboration with Bosch bio- sensors department, MIT and Stanford management systems
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Research Affiliate, July 2017 - Dec 2018
  • - Develop phase-field models to study Oswald ripening of Pt-catalysts for PEM fuel cells
  • - Advise undergraduate and graduate students on fundamental studies of Li electro- deposition on ceramic electrolytes
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Postdoctoral Associate, March 2014 - June 2017
  • Research Affiliate, July 2017 -
  • Advisors: Prof. W. Craig Carter and Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang
  • - Developed high fidelity multi-physics models of solid state batteries to analyze in-situ behavior
  • - Implemented a finite element code in C++ for mesoscale modeling of electrode's microstructures. Identified failure-tolerant materials and designs
  • Brown University - Engineering School
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant, July 2012 - October 2013
  • Advisors: Prof. Allan F. Bower and Prof. Pradeep Guduru
  • - Modeled electrochemical and mechanical performances of silicon anodes
  • - Predicted stress-driven hysteresis, plastic flow and fracture in Si anodes
  • Università di Pavia
  • Graduate Research Assistant, 2008 - 2009
  • Advisors: Prof. Carlo Cinquini
  • - Designed sustainable concrete with rice husk ash to partially replace the binder
  • - Tested mechanical properties of specimens with various compositions
  • - Collaborated with local biomass-energy company

Education

  • Politecnico di Milano - PhD Structural Engineering, 2012
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting doctoral student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, host Prof. Raúl Radovitzky, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
  • Università di Pavia - MSc in Engineering-Architecture (Ingegneria edile-architettura, according to 85/384/CEE), 2007

Awards

  • Bosch Research Fellowship 2020 - Recognizing the most innovative research proposal with 6-months sabbatical at Stanford University focused on DNA modeling
  • Invited speaker at Rising Stars in Nuclear Science and Engineering Symposium 2015 - a biannual symposium that promotes women on the verge of launching their careers (MIT news article)
  • Roberto Rocca Doctoral Fellowship 2010 - Awarded for a research stay as a visiting PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Progetto Roberto Rocca, 2010 - Fall semester 2010 and Spring semester 2011
  • Best poster award NEWMech 2013 - Best Poster award at the New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (NEWMech 2013)

Grants

  • NSF - XSEDE Startup Allocation 2015 - Computational resources awarded as PI of the project: ”Theoretical analysis and computational modeling of the mechanical reliability and in-situ behavior of solid-state polycrystalline battery electrodes”.
  • Dote ricercatore 2009 funding 5 months of research on sustainable concrete with rice husk ash to partially replace the binder.
  • Travel Grants
  • from SISSA (International Graduate School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy
  • to attend the workshop on Evolution Problems for Material Defects: Dislocations, Plasticity, and Fracture (September 30 - October 4 2013)
  • from the Postdoc Association at MIT to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Batteries (February 21-26, 2016), Ventura CA, USA

    • Teaching Experience

    • Università di Pavia Teaching assistant of Structural Mechanics class from 2005/6 to 2009/10
    • Politecnico di Milano Teaching assistant of Structural Mechanics class, a.y. 2009/10

    Personal

    I enjoy playing the piano. I studied it since the age of nine years old and I attended the Conservatory of Music L. Perosi (Campobasso, Italia) for six years, from 1992 to 1998. I also graduated in Teoria Solfeggio e Dettato Musicale in 1997.