TECH COLLIDER
A Knowledge Share event

The role of Proof of Concept in Sustaining Innovation: successful case studies from the Italian ecosystem.

29th-31st March 2023

We are back! New year, new KS event, new look...new opportunities!

The renowned Tech Share Day – a Knowledge Share event just got a new make-over! We are proud to present to you Tech Collider – a Knowledge Share Event! In this 4th digital edition, you will be able to attend 9 webinars aimed at expediting innovation.

The TECH COLLIDER – a Knowledge Share event will focus on innovations which have benefited from the PoC (Proof of Concept) grant, awarded by the Italian Ministry Of Enterprises and Made In Italy.

Numerous research teams have benefited from the PoC funds, allowing them to boost the maturity level of their patented inventions, launch new spin-offs, and raise their profile to attract industrial collaborators.

Over the 3 days we will talk about innovations in Healthcare & Biomedical, Green Tech, Renewable Energy Sources, Construction & Architecture and Industry 4.0.

All the webinars will be presented in English.

Tech Collider and Knowledge Share platform are initiatives developed and strengthened thanks to the Italy’s National Recovery Plan and Next Generation EU program.

Webinar

March 29th 2023

Tech Collider 2023 PoC Edition – OPENING SESSION

TREATMENTS AND THERAPEUTICS when patents meet industry

INNOVATION IN ITALIAN HEALTHCARE challenges and opportunities

March 30th 2023

ADVANCED SOLUTIONS IN BIOMED from polymers to packaging

GREEN TECH from environment as global issue to providing potential solution

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES securing a better future

March 31st 2023

CONSTRUCTION & ARCHITECTURE building safe & smart

INDUSTRY 4 0 from Earth to infinity and beyond

What happens after the collision Policies and future scenarios

Featured Opinion Leaders

Alberto Danielli

Molecular biologist at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna

Alberto Danielli is a molecular biologist at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna (UniBO; Italy), with a strong background in fundamental aspects of gene regulation, molecular cell biology of infectious pathogens and disease vectors, and phage biotechnology. Since 2017 he heads the Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory (MBTlab) and serves as Associate Professor in Molecular Biology at the same University.

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Andrea Bonfiglio

Assistant Professor at the University of Genoa at the Department of Electric, Electronic, Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Genoa

Andrea Bonfiglio, Ph.D. degree in Electric Engineering from the University of Genoa. After he received its Ph.D. degree he continued working as a postdoc researcher at the University of Genoa where he is now enrolled as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Electric Power Systems. He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, member of the PhD board of Science and Technology for Electrical Engineering, Naval Engineering and Complex System for Mobility and Vice-Coordinator of BsC and MsC degrees in Electrical Engineering.

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Andrea Porcu

General Manager of Centro Medico Santagostino

He has been General Manager of Centro Medico Santagostino since November 2019. With 20 years of experience in general management, international business development, deal structuring and M&A. He graduated at Bocconi University in Economic and Social Disciplines with a research and publication project, continued after graduation, in the field of Innovation Economics.

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Andrea Pucci

Professor in Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at Università di Pisa

Andrea Pucci - Professor in Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at Università di Pisa. Permanent member of the board of the PhD course in Chemical Sciences, President of the Technical Patent Commission and of the degree courses in Chemistry for Industry and the Environment and in Industrial Chemistry at Università di Pisa. Scientific responsible for research units of national projects also with industrial relevance and European H2020 projects in the field of materials science and nanostructures. Since 2015 he has been associate editor of the journal RSC Advances and in 2016 he was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Andrea Scamporrino

Scientific disseminator EnJoiPol group

Andrea was born in Catania, Italy in 1980. After his master’s degree in industrial chemistry, he achieved the PhD Degree in Polymeric Materials for Special Uses in 2010. In recent years, research has been aimed at creating polymers with electrolytic functions obtained through post-polymerization modifications designed to insert groups or pendants with these characteristics. Recently the research activity is moving more and more on nano-hybrid materials and the fight against environmental pollution, particularly the recovery of water-polluting materials. In the context of the EnJoiPol group, he deals with technology transfer, communication, and scientific dissemination.

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Anna Amati

Founder & Managing Partner of EUREKA! Venture SGR Spa

As Entrepreneur Anna founded META Group (www.meta-group.com). As Business Angel she is Partner of IAG and Angels4Women. As Investor she is Founder & Managing Partner of EUREKA! Venture SGR Spa (www.eurekaventure.it). She has experience in financial instruments for territories' innovation, Tech-Transfer processes, accompaniment and evaluation of startups and research spin-offs. She was member of the Executive Committee of ITALIA Startup, and member of the Board of Directors of LV.EN. Holding, parent company of LVenture Group. She is Italian evaluator, as Investor, of the EIC AcceleratorH2020 program. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Institute "Treccani" and adviser of the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria.

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Antonella Falzetti

Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

Antonella Falzetti, Architect and PhD, is a Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Head of the "Lab. of architectural design” of DICII; Founding partner and President of the spin-off DoT5-Lab srl.

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Caleffi Garutti Pier Alessio

Founder of the start up A.d.M. srl

Founder of the start up A.d.M. srl. Responsible for planning strategic business objective and also implementing systems and processes to monitor and report on performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators across all the business sectors.

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Cecilia Goracci

Associate Professor and Vice-Dean for Students Affairs in the Undergraduate Course in Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics taught in English of the University of Siena

Prof. Cecilia Goracci currently holds the positions of Associate Professor and Vice-Dean for Students Affairs in the Undergraduate Course in Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics taught in English of the University of Siena.

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Claudia Pingue

Senior Partner, Head of Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital Sgr

Claudia Pingue brings over 15 years of Technology Transfer process management experience. From 2013 to 2020 she was PoliHub, Startup District & Incubator General Manager at the Politecnico di Milano, a position that flanked several startup and scaleup boards as well as the Poli360 Fund Venture Partner role managed by 360 Capital Partners. Prior to her appointment as General Manager she was Digital Innovation area coordinator at the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano while being in charge of the design and implementation of various innovation projects within both companies and public administrations.

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Damiana Scuteri

Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy

Dr. Damiana Scuteri, MsPharm, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutrition Sciences, University of Calabria, and Adjunct Researcher at the 'Istituto S. Anna, Centro Regionale per le Gravi Cerebrolesioni. He is one of the inventors of the NanoBEO patent owned by the University of Calabria.

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Francesco Peri

Full professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Milano-Bicocca, co-founder of CP2 Biotech spin-off

Francesco Peri is a full professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He also holds a permanent professorship at the Ecole Nationale Superieure (ENS) of Lyon (France). President of the MicrobiotaMi Association and Delegate of the Rector for the University of Innovation Foundation. Founder and head of scientific board of the academic spin-off CP2 Biotech.

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Francesco Tondolo

Associate Professor PhD Eng in Structural Design of Civil Structures

Associate Professor PhD Eng in Structural Design of Civil Structures at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. Director of Material and Structures Testing Laboratory (MastrLab) of Politecnico di Torino. Deputy coordinator of the Interdepartmental Centre SISCON (Safety of Infrastructures and Constructions). Long experience in experimental testing of civil structures and components. "

6 may 2021
14:00 - 16:00
Technologies for sustainable architecture and infrastructure "

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Gabriele Neretti

Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Bologna.

Gabriele Neretti Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2009. His research interests principally include technological applications of non-thermal plasmas in aerospace and aeronautical domains and in the plasma medicine field. He is also involved in the design and realization of high voltage power supplies for plasma generation.

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Giovanni Rizzo

Partner and Key Manager of the Biotech Fund at Indaco Venture Partners

Dr. Giovanni Rizzo is Partner and Key Manager of the Biotech Fund at Indaco Venture Partners. Dr. Rizzo is an entrepreneur and an investor himself of the London Business Angels (LBA) association; he holds a board member position in the Italian Angels for Biotech.

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Giovanni Tolin

PhD Candidate in Innovation Management at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

PhD Candidate in Innovation Management at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. He collaborates as a Project Manager in Technology Transfer for UniSMART – Padova University Foundation managing innovation projects between the university and industry. He also deals with these issues in his research activities, with a focus on Proof-of- Concept programs.

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Giulia Pezzullo

Founding partner and CEO at DoT5-Lab srl

Founding partner and CEO at DoT5-Lab srl since 2021. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture and Construction at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", she develops the research theme: “Architecture and nature. Technical design surveys for sustainable micro-architectures in bamboo". She is continuously involved in research and experimentation projects in innovative design and construction, thanks to the interaction between DoT5-Lab and the University of "Tor Vergata".

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Giuseppe Chirico

Professor at Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca

Giuseppe Chirico, has a Ms. in Physics, PhD in Biophysics and is full professor of Applied Physics (Univ. Milano-Bicocca, Milano, I). His research has been in laser spectroscopy and microscopy for biology and medical biotechnology. Recent research is on photo- and fluorescence correlation spectroscopies and applications to study of the structure and dynamics of proteins and nanoparticles interacting with cells and in-vivo deep tissue imaging by non-linear excitation microscopy

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Giuseppe Conti

Director General of the IUSS of Pavia & President of Netval

Director General of the IUSS of Pavia, former Director of the Research and Technology Transfer Area at the Università di Bologna. Previously, Head of Technology Transfer Office at the Politecnico di Milano. Currently, President of Netval.

5 maggio 2020
10:00 - 12:00
TSD Opening Table in collaboration with ASTP – “Successful Collaborations between Academia and industry”

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Giuseppe Vallone

Associate Professor at the University of Padua

Giuseppe Vallone is Associate Professor at the University of Padua since 2019. He obtained his PhD and MS degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Turin in 2006. From 2006 to 2011 he worked in the Quantum Optics Group at La Sapienza University of Rome. He worked at the University of Padua from 2011 to 2019 as a Research Fellow . His research activity is focused on quantum information and communication. He currently coordinates national and international projects, holds 3 patents and is the author of more than 130 scientific papers. He is co-founder and technical director of ThinkQuantum, a Spin-Off of the University of Padua that commercializes quantum communication devices.

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Italo Linfante

MD, FAHA, FSVIN

Dr. Linfante is the Medical Director of Interventional Neuroradiology at Miami Neuroscience Institute. He is also Clinical Professor of Radiology and Neuroscience at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University.

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Loredana Guglielmetti

Director of the "Patents" Division of the General Directorate for the Protection of Industrial Property - Italian Patent and Trademark Office

Loredana Guglielmetti, is the Director of the "Patents" Division of the General Directorate for the Protection of Industrial Property - Italian Patent and Trademark Office of the Ministry of Economic Development. She is responsible for procedures granting national patents and European patent validations in Italy, and coordinates various projects for the promotion of patent culture and its enhancement. She is also responsible of the thematic websites: site of biotechnological inventions and life sciences and the observatory on patents of universities and public research offices, Patiris.

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Luigi Costanzo

Researcher at Department of Engineering of Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli"

Luigi Costanzo is a Researcher at Department of Engineering of Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli. PhD Degree in 2017 at Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli. Luigi Costanzo is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering of Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli.”. Ph.D. degree in industrial and information engineering from the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”: his main research interests include maximum power point tracking techniques for renewable energy sources.

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Maddalena Collini

Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Maddalena Collini is currently Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. She is the President of the Teaching Board of Bachelor and Master Degree Courses in Physics and in Astrophysicsand Space Physicsfor Milano-Bicocca.

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Marco Centurioni

Researcher at Politecnico di Milano & Founder at HMDrive Srl

Founder and CEO of HMDrive Srl. Received the M.Sc. degree in Automation & Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) degree in 2019. Marco had a couple of experiences as entrepreneur and project manager on a couple of tech-driven projects.

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Marco Potenza

Physics Department of the University of Milan and CIMAINA

Prof. Marco Potenza leads the Instrumental Optics Laboratory at the Physics Department of the University of Milan and CIMAINA (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces). His activity is focused at conceiving and developing novel optical techniques and instrumentation based on light scattering and wavefront characterization. Since 2003 he works for developing space instrumentation for ESA.

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Marco Simonetti

Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino

Associate Professor of Environmental Technical Physics at the Politecnico di Torino. He has twenty years of experience as researcher, start-upper, and installations designer. He is the author of more than 50 scientific publications and co-author of 6 patents, 3 granted and 3 pending. He regularly visits Princeton University. He is co-founder of Aquaseek, a start-up whose mission is to bring water everywhere, through "atmospheric water harvesting" technologies. "

7 may 2021
14:00 - 16:00
Sustainability and Independence: Water from air, Energy from sea and earth "

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Martina de Cristofaro

PhD in Environment, Design and Innovation & Knowledge Transfer Manager Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

PhD in Environment, Design and Innovation Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". Born in Aversa (CE) on 13 May 1989, graduated in Civil Engineering on 14 June 2018 at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. In 2022 Subject Expert Teaching Assistant in ICAR07 at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. She co-authored a national and international patent, an academic Spinoff and several scientific papers also published in journals of international relevance.

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Nicola Coppedé

Researcher at IMEM-CNR Parma, President at PlantBit

Nicola Coppedè is a researcher at IMEM-CNR Parma since 2012. He is responsible for ADR “Sensors for IOT and Sustainable Development”.He has a PhD in physics and his research activity deals with materials, devices, and technologies for innovative integrated sensors, usingorganic and biocompatible materials. He invented biocompatible sensors to monitor in-vivo plant sactivity, wearable textile biosensors for sweat monitoring and integrated pressure sensors. He is author of over 95 scientific publications,50 conferences, 8 patents.

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Nicola Paone

Full Professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at Università Politecnica delle Marche

Nicola Paone. He is Full Professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. His skills are related to the development and application of non-contact measurement techniques for mechanical quantities and to the development of systems for measurement and quality control in production lines, in various sectors of the manufacturing and process industry. He is co-inventor of 4 patents and author of more than 150 international scientific publications.

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Nicola Redi

Managing Partner Obloo| Venture Factory

Nicola brings 25 years’ experience in translating science and research into the market through venture capital investments and corporate R&D responsibilities. He is currently managing Obloo/Venture Factory, the most active Italian technology transfer investment platform. He was previously CIO for TTVenture and Investment Director Vertis, while being an investment committee member of the French fund Technologie et Santé I. Before entering venture capital, he served leading multinational industrial corporates with Global and EMEA leadership positions in R&D, new product development and operations. Nicola holds a PhD (Aston University, Birmingham), an MBA with greatest honours (SDA Bocconi) and MSc in Aerospace Engineering (Politecnico di Milano). He is Italian representative among the High Level Group for Systems Innovation.

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Paolo Borella

Managing Partner at VITA Accelerator

Paolo Borella is the Managing Partner at VITA Accelerator, the Digital Health Accelerator of CDP National Accelerators Network, born from an initiative of CDP Venture Capital Sgr together with Healthware Group and Accelerace. He has shaped and run several global and regional accelerator programs for healthtech, foodtech, energy and mobile apps. He has screened +7000 startups to identify the future success stories, and deployed +20M€ in +300 cases. Paolo is an active Board Member, Advisor and Angel Investor and has co-written a few papers on innovation & ecosystem development with key innovators like Imperial College, and enjoys moderating panels at Startup events.

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Pier Francesco Ferrari

Researcher in Chemical Engineering, University of Genoa

Pier Francesco Ferrari is a Researcher in Chemical Engineering at the Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa. He is carrying out multidisciplinary studies aimed to investigate engineered devices for personalized and precision medicine. He has experience in biomaterials for regenerative medicine and for vascular tissue engineering, in bioreactors for scaffold validation studies, in nanotechnology with a theranostic approach, and in innovative biosensors for protein detection in biological fluids.

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Renato Zona

PhD in Mathematics Phisics and Engeenering Applications at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”

Renato Zona, graduated in Civil Engineering, PhD in Mathematics Phisics and Engeenering Applications at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” in the topic of solid and structure engineering. Research interests: Mechanics of Solids and Structural Mechanics.

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Sabrina Conoci

Full professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Messina and University of Bologna

Full professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Messina and University of Bologna. Rector Delegate to Third Mission at University of Messina. Head of Joint Research Lab between STMicroelectronics (www.st.com) and University of Messina. Head of Lab SENS- Beyond Nano, URT of the DSFTM of CNR. Member of the Strategic and Advisory Council of the Graphene Flaghship. From 2000-2019, R&D Manager at STMicroelectronics covering several management R&D roles in the field of micro-nano-technologies and biosensors. PI and WP leader of several Italian projects (about 50M€ of funding). Authors of more than 160 papers (h-index 30, 2620 cit – Scopus) and co-inventor of 30 patents.

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Salvatore Majorana

Director of Kilometro Rosso

Salvatore is the Director of Kilometro Rosso, the innovation district of Bergamo, advisor of the VC fund CYSERO and founder of the VC Fund Eureka!, both on deep tech early stage start-ups. Engineer, MBA at INSEAD and Tech Transfer expert, he is an active member of the Italian and European innovation system.

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Shiva Loccisano

CEO of BeHold srl

Msc in Industrial Biotechnology followed by a PhD in Business and Management awarded by the Università degli Studi di Torino. Since 2007 he has been working at the Politecnico di Torino dealing with innovation, technology transfer and high-tech start-up creation. Since 2016 he has been board member at Netval and is appointed as Netval representative within the ASTP Knowledge Transfer Europe National Associations Advisory Committee and as a Council Member within ATTP (Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals). He is a LES member, where is also Vice-chair within the International University-Industry-Government Transaction Committee.

29 March 2023
10:00 - 12:00
Tech Collider 2023 PoC Edition – OPENING SESSION

31 March 2023
16:00 - 18:00
What happens after the collision? Policies and future scenarios – CLOSING SESSION

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Stefania Raimondo

Assistant Professor at the University of Palermo

Dr. Raimondo is Assistant Professor at the University of Palermo (Italy). In 2014 she obtained an international PhD in Immuno-Pharmacology from the University of Palermo under the mentorship of Professor Riccardo Alessandro. In 2019 Stefania has been a StarShip Health Innovation fellow. She is also the co-founder of an Academic Spinoff, Navhetec s.r.l., and Italian local representative of the EIT health Innovators community.

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Valentina Giannini

Post Doctoral Fellow Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia

Valentina Giannini, PhD, received the MS degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 and the PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 at the Polytechnic of Turin, within the program "Scuola Intepolitecnica". Her current research area includes development of artificial intelligence algorithms applied to medical images.

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Walter Lacarbonara

Full Professor of Nonlinear Structural Mechanics at Sapienza University

Walter Lacarbonara is a Full Professor of Nonlinear Structural Mechanics at Sapienza University and Director of the Sapienza Center for Dynamics. His research interests cover nonlinear structural dynamics; metamaterials; nonlinear vibration absorber systems; dissipation in CNT/polymer nanocomposites; nonlinear control of vibrations; experimental nonlinear dynamics; dynamic stability of structures.

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