| |
News |
|
New Young Researchers Fellowship
The Progetto Rocca has created a new 6-12 month fellowship to support research stays for young Politecnico researchers at MIT, and MIT assistant professors at Politecnico. For more information please go to Roberto Rocca Young Researchers Fellowship
In the Fall 2008, 3 new Politecnico Rocca Fellows will join us at MIT:
- Giuseppe Buscarnera, a PhD student in Geotechnical Engineering will work on Flowslides along Natural Slopes , with professor Andrew Whittle, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- Alberto Leombruni, a Ph. D candidate in Civil Engineering will work on the microfluidics of biofilm formation in porous media with professor Roman Stocker, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- Nicola Pedroni, PhD candidate in Nuclear Engineering will work on on methods for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of physical-mathematical models of safetycritical systems, hosted by professor George Apostolakis, Nuclear Engineering.
They will join returning Rocca fellows:
- Eugenio Morello, a Post-Doc Rocca Fellow working on "Raster City: Urban Data collection for Environmental prediction," a joint collaboration between professors Carlo Ratti, MIT, and Alessandro Balducci, Politecnico.
- Tommaso Borghi, a Politecnico PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering researching implantable Electrodes and Cortical Recording at the MIT Brain and Cognitive Science Department, hosted by professor Emilio Bizzi.
- Davide Carnelli, a PhD candidate in Biological Engineering working on the nanomechanics of structural biological materials with professor Christine Ortiz, from Materials Science.
At the same time, three MIT Rocca Fellows have headed for Politecnico:
- Allison Beese, a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering completed a summer research stay at the Politecnico crashworthiness Lab researching composite structures with professor Chiara Bisagni
- Yu Gu, a EECS PhD candidate, will spend the Fall at professor Cerullo's lab working on interferometers in fused silica
- Aleem Siddiqui, also an EECS PhD candidate, will spend the Fall and part of winter at Politecnico Cerullo's Lab, researching the optical Cycles of pulsed light source.
To all our new Rocca Fellows we wish a very productive stay.
To learn more on how you could become a fellow, please go to:
http://web.mit.edu/progettorocca/fellowships/index.html
|
|
