Academic career and teaching activities

Teaching activity

After 2006

  • From A.Y. 2006-2007 to A.Y. 2008-2009: Course of “Tecnologie Metallurgiche” in the Master’s course in “Ingegneria per la produzione industriale” (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
  • From A.Y. 2005-2006 to A.Y. 2008-2009: Course of “Laboratorio di Metallurgia” in the Master’s course in “Ingegneria per la produzione industriale” (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
  • From A.Y. 2009-2010: Course of “Ingegneria dei Materiali Metallici, II modulo” in the Master’s course in “Ingegneria dei Materiali” (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
  • From A.Y. 2010-2011 to A.Y. 2012-2013: Course of “Materiali Metallici e Tecnologie per il Product Design” (6CFU) in the Master’s course in “Ingegneria dei Materiali”, (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento). Since A.Y. 2012-2013 up to A.Y. 2021-2022 (end of course) the course was renamed “Advanced Metals”.
  • From A.Y. 2011-2012: Course of “Physical Metallurgy and Thermodinamics” (6CFU), in the masters course in “Ingegneria dei Materiali” (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
  • From A.Y. 2011-2012: Corso di “Ingegneria dei materiali metallici, modulo 2” (6 CFU), in the Master’s course in “Materials and Production Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento). From A.Y. 2015-2016 to A.Y. 2020-2021 (end of course) the course was renamed “Metallic Materials Engineering, module 2”.
  • From A.Y. 2005-2006 up today (not every year): Course of “Trattamenti termici e superficiali degli acciai” in the Master universitario di I livello in Metallurgical Engineering (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Currently

  • From A.Y. 2021-2022: 30h lectures in the Course of “Metallic Materials Engineering” (3CFU) in the Master’s course in “Materials and Production Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento).
  • From A.Y. 2018-2019: Course of “Circular Economy for Materials Processing”, in the Master’s course in “Materials and Production Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento)
  • Starting from A.Y. 2022-2023: Course of “Biomedical metallic materials and technologies” (6CFU), in the Master’s course in “Materials Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento)
  • Starting from A.Y. 2022-2023: Course of “Sustainable Materials Management” (6CFU), in the Master’s course in “Management and Industrial Systems Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento)
  • Starting from A.Y. 2022-2023: Course of “Interdisciplinary laboratory - module of Advanced Metals” (3CFU), in the Master’s course in “Materials Engineering” (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento)
Research interests
  1. Heat treatment and surface engineering of steel
  2. Deep cryogenic treatment of tool steels
  3. Development of metallic materials produced by Spark Plasma Sintering
  4. Development of metallic materials and multi-material structures produced by Additive Manufacturing
Research work
  1. Heat treatment and surface engineering of steels
  2. Development of highly alloyed steels and special cast irons for rolling mills rolls
  3. Deep cryogenic treatment of tool steels
  4. Metallurgy of duplex e superduplex stainless steels
  5. Development of tool steels and metal matrix composites by mechanical alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering
  6. Production of Cu-based metal matrix composites by mechanical alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering
  7. Production of tool steels by Additive Manufacturing (L-PBF, L-DED)
  8. Production of Ti alloys for biomedical applications by Additive Manufacturing (L-PBF)
  9. Production of multi-material structures by Additive Manufacturing (L-DED)
Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Membership in societies

Member of the Excecutive Committee and vicepresident of IFHTSE, the International Federation for Heat Treatments and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE - http://www.ifhtse.org/

Member of Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia (AIM - http://www.metallurgia-italiana.net/)

Membership in scientific committees

Member of the technical committee on "Trattamenti termici e metallografia" of AIM

Member of the executive committee of “COMET – Coordinamento della ricerca e della didattica universitaria in metallurgia” of Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia (https://www.metallurgia-italiana.net/centro_di_studio.php?id=21).

Member of the Advisory Committee of Project "FP7-Grant Agreement 316161 Fostering AIMEN research potential in laser technology for material microprocessing - FaiERA" dal 01-09-2013 al 30-08-2015

Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties

Member of the scientific committee of Inzinieria Powierzcni (Surface Engineering - http://www.inzynieriapowierzchni.pl/# )

Member of the Editorial Board of “Metals”(ISSN 2075-4701; CODEN: MBSEC7) published by MDPI

International conferences

  1. Since 2008 Member of the Executive Committee of ABRASION, Abrasion Wear Resistant Alloyed Cast Irons for Rolling and Pulverizing Mills”. Chairmen of the Conference hold in Trento (Italy)
  2. Member of the International Advisory Committee “2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HEAT TREATMENT AND SURFACE ENGINEERING OF TOOLS AND DIES”, 25-28 May 2008, Bled (Slovenia)
  3. Member of the International Program Committee of ”NEW CHALLENGES IN HEAT TREATMENT AND SURFACE ENGINEERING” 09-12 June 2009, Dubrovnik – Cavtat (Croatia)
  4. Member of the Scientific Committee of “TRIBOBR-2010 – First International Brazilian Conference on Tribology”, 24-26 November 2010, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  5. Member of Scientific Program Committee of the ”European Conference on Heat Treatment 2011 - Quality in Heat Treatment“ and “3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HEAT TREATMENT AND SURFACE ENGINEERING OF TOOLS AND DIES”, 23-25 March 2011, Wels (Austria)
  6. Member of the International program committee “2nd Mediterranean Conference & New challenges on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 11-14 June 2013, Dubrovnik, Cavtat (Croatia)
  7. Member of the scientific committee and of the International Programme Committee of the European Conference on Heat Treatment 2015 (22nd IFHTSE Congress), 20-22 May 2015, Venice (Italy)
  8. Member of the International program committee and co-chairman of “MCHT&SE 2016 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 26-28 September 2016, Portoroz (Slovenia)
  9. Member of the Scientific Committee of “10th International Conference on Industrial Tools and Advanced Processing Technologies”, 24th and 26th April 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  10. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “24th IFHTSE CONGRESS 2017 European Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering A3TS CONGRESS”, 26-29 June 2017, Nice (France)
  11. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Summer school EIT Raw Materials “SETI” Trento, 5-11 September 2017, Trento (Italy)
  12. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Summer school EIT Raw materials “TOP STARS” 6-15 November 2017, Trento (Italy)
  13. Member of the International Advisory Board del ICS 2018, 7th International Conference on Science and Technology of Steelmaking e XXVI Convegno Nazionale Trattamenti Termici, 13-15 June 2018, Venice (Italy)
  14. Member of the Scientific Committee of MS&IA 2018 Modern Steels and Iron Alloys, 26-29 June 2018, Varsaw (Poland)
  15. Member of the Scientific Committee of “TRIBOBR-2018 – Third International Brazilian Conference on Tribology”, 3-5 December 2018, Florianópolis (Brazil)
  16. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “25th IFHTSE CONGRESS 2018 European Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 11-14 September 2018, Xian (China)
  17. Member of the Scientific Committee of TOOLING2019, 11th Tooling conference and exhibition, 12-16 May 2019, Aachen (Germany)
  18. Member of the Scientific and organizing committee of “ECHT 2019, European Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 5-7 June 2019, Bardolino (Italy)
  19. Member of the Int. Advisory committee and of the Academic committee of the “27th IFHTSE CONGRESS 2019”, 17-19 September 2019, Moscow (Russia)
  20. Member of the Scientific Committee of “ECHT2020, European Conference on Heat Treatment”, 25-27 March 2020, Antwerp (Belgium)
  21. Member of the International Scientific Committee of “MCHT&SE 2020 4th Mediterranean Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 3-5 June 2020, Istanbul (Turchia)
  22. Member of the International Advisory Committee of the “6th Asian Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering”, 5-7 March 2020, Chennai (India)
  23. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “4th International Conf. on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering of Tools and Dies”, 28-31 October 2020, Hangzhou (China)
  24. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “12th Tooling Conference & Exhibition, Tooling 2022”, 25-27 April 2022, Orebro (Sweden)
  25. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “XXVII Convegno Nazionale Trattamenti Termici”, 26-27 May 2022, Genova (Italia)
  26. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “27th IFHTSE Congress & European Conference on Heat Treatment 2022”, 5-8 September 2022, Salzburg (Austria)
  27. Member of the Scientific Committee of the “5th International Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering of Tools and Dies”, 24-27 April 2023, Hangzhou (China)
Awards and honours

William Johnson International Gold Medal (2022)

To recognize and appreciate distinguished academic achievements, Doctoral students and colleagues of Prof. William Johnson of UMIST along with the Members of the AMPT Steering Committee established in 2010, an award of a Gold Medal, named after Professor  W. Johnson DSc, FRS, FEng formerly of UMIST and Cambridge University. This International Gold Medal is awarded to distinguished academics in materials processing research and teaching.

Other work

Participation in and responsibility for international and national didactic projects funded by EIT Raw Materials

  • Local coordinator for the University of Trento of Projects IMAGINE I, IMAGINE II and IMAGINE III related to the double degree Master Program EIT Raw Materials in “SUstainable MAterials” (SUMA, https://master-suma.eu/)
  • Local coordinator for the University of Trento of Project MC-CEMP, Master Course – Circular Economy for Materials Processing
  • Local coordinator for the University of Trento of Project SETI, Summer school – Circular Economy for Materials Processing