Mattia Biesuz

Ph.D. in Materials, Mechatronics, and Systems Engineering, 01/01/2014 – 26/04/2017

University of Trento (Italy)        

Thesis title: Flash sintering of alumina-based ceramics

Evaluation: Excellent cum laude

Master in Materials Engineering, 10/09/2010 – 27/03/2013

University of Trento (Italy)

Thesis title: Chromium and Vanadium carbide and nitride coatings obtained via TRD technologies

Evaluation: 110 cum laude

Bachelor in Industrial Engineering, 13/09/2007 – 17/09/2010                                                           

University of Trento (Italy)

Thesis title: Mechanical characterization of structural steel components obtained via press and sintering 

Evaluation: 110 cum laude

Teaching

Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Ceramic Materials, 2022

University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering (Italy)

Teaching Assistant of “Materials for the Industrial Engineering (Materials Science)” course, 2021, 2022

University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering (Italy)

Teaching Assistant of “Materials for Energy” course, 2020, 2021

University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering (Italy)

Teaching Assistant of “Materials Science and Technology Laboratory” course, 2021

University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering (Italy)

Teaching Assistant of “Ceramic Materials Engineering” course, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022

University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering (Italy)

Tutor of “Physic 1” course, 2016

University of Trento, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (Italy)

Development of novel and green processing routes to advanced glasses and ceramics with enhanced mechanical and functional properties. Among them:

Sintering:          Flash sintering; cold sintering; ultrafast high-temperature sintering; spark plasma sintering

Synthesis:         Entropy-stabilized ceramics; polymer derived ceramics; porous ceramics; hard coatings

Ion exchange:   Field-assisted ion exchange in glasses and glass-ceramics

Joining:            Cold and field-assisted joining of ceramics

Properties:       Ionic conductivity; thermal energy storage; thermal conductivity; electrostriction; antimicrobial

Editorships

Associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2022-ongoing.

Editor of the special issue High-Entropy Ceramics: Synthesis and Applications in Materials, 2022.

Editorial board member of Frontiers in Materials, section Ceramics and Glass, 2022-ongoing.

Editorial board member of Materials, section Advanced and Functional Ceramics, 2021-ongoing.

Scientific societies affiliation

Editor of the special issue Spark Plasma Sintering: Mechanisms, Materials, and Technology Developments in Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2020-2022.

Member of the Italian Ceramic Society, affiliated with the ECerS, 2018-ongoing.

Member of the Materials Research Society, 2021-ongoing.

Member of the American Ceramic Society, 2022-ongoing.

Crystals 2022 Young Investigator Award assigned by the Editorial Board of Crystals, 2022.

Pfeil Award assigned by the IOM3 Institute of Materials Minerals & Mining (UK) for the publication “Athermal electric field effects in flash sintered zirconia”, 2022.

Acta Journals’ Outstanding Reviewers award assigned by Acta Materialia Editorial Office, 2021.

MRS Postdoctoral Award assigned by MRS Materials Research Society (US) “for fundamental contribution to the knowledge and development of flash sintering phenomena and processes in ceramics”, Spring Meting 2022. 

Excellent Reviewer Award assigned by the Editorial Board of Open Ceramics (Elsevier), 2021. 

Pfeil Award assigned by the IOM3 Institute of Materials Minerals & Mining (UK) for the publication “A theoretical analysis of cold sintering”, 2021.

Materials 2021 Travel Award assigned by Prof. Maryam Tabrizian, Editor in Chief of Materials MDPI, 2020.

2019 Best Paper Award assigned by the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Asian Ceramic Societies, 2020.

Ceramics 2020 Travel Award assigned by Prof. Gilbert Fantozzi, Editor in Chief of Ceramics MDPI, 2020.

Acta Journals’ Outstanding Reviewers award assigned by Acta Materialia Editorial Office, 2019.

Best Graduate Student Poster Award at “Electric Field Enhanced Processing of Advanced Materials II: Complexities and Opportunities” conference, Tomar, Portugal, 2019.

Best Master Thesis Award of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento, 2013.

Invited short review in MRS Bulletin (special issue Electromagnetic/Electric Fields in Ceramics Synthesis and Processing: Far from Equilibrium Effects):

G.M. Jones, M. Biesuz, W. Ji, S.F. John, C. Grimley, C. Manière, C.E.J. Dancer, Promoting microstructural homogeneity during flash sintering of ceramics through thermal management, MRS Bull. 46 (2021) 59–66.

Invited viewpoint paper in Scripta Materialia: 

M. Biesuz, V.M. Sglavo, Beyond flash sintering: How the flash event could change ceramics and glass processing, Scr. Mat. 187 (2020) 49–56.

DPG Meeting 2022, Regensburg, Germany, 04/09/2022-09/09/2022. Invited talk: Electric fields effects in ionic conductors during flash sintering and ion exchange.

Ceramics in Europe, Krakow, Poland, 10/07/2022 – 14/07/2022. Oral presentation: Novel Entropy-stabilized NiO-free Rock Salt Ceramic. Oral presentation: Gadolinium-doped ceria electrolytes by ultrafast high-temperature sintering.

CIMTEC 2022, Perugia, Italy, 20/06/2022 – 24/06/2022. Oral presentation: Novel Entropy-stabilized Ni-free Rock Salt Ceramics.

CIS-2021 Young Researcher Conference, Online event due to SARS-Cov 19 pandemic, 06/09/2021 – 08/09/2021. Plenary session speaker: CO2 methanation over Ru/Al2O3 catalyst supported on polymer-derived 3D SiC foams.

Materials Science and Engineering Conference (MSE), Online event due SARS-Cov 19 pandemic, 22/09/2020 – 25/09/2020. Oral presentations: Flash sintering of Al2O3-8YSZ composites” and “Electrode dependent Joule heating during flash processes in soda-lime silicate glass”. Poster presentation “Dry field-assisted ion exchange of silver in amorphous and crystalline systems.

16th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society, Torino, Italy, 16/06/2019 – 21/06/2019. Oral presentation: Electrochemical, Optical and thermal effects during flash sintering of YSZ.

One-day research meeting on advanced ceramics (1DRAC), Londra, UK, 26/03/2019. Oral presentation: "Flash sintering mechanism in YSZ". 

ECI conference, Electric Field Enhanced Processing of Advanced Materials II: Complexities and Opportunities” conference, Tomar, Portugal, 10/03/2019 – 15/03/2019. Oral presentation: Flash sintering of glass containing alumina bodies”. Poster presentation: “Flash joining of graphite with polymer-derived ceramic interlayer.

43th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites*, Daytona Beach, USA, 27/01/2019 – 01/02/2019. Oral Presentation: A novel synthesis route to luminescent silicon nanocrystals in an amorphous silicon nitride matrix.

Cermodel, Trento, Italy, 26/07/2017 – 29/07/2017. Oral presentation: Thermal diffusion: a new mechanism for flash sintering.

15th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society, Budapest, Hungary, 10/07/2017 – 14/07/2017. Oral presentation: Flash sintering of alumina: Electric Current Effects on Microstructure.

VI International Workshop on Oxide-based Materials*, Naples, Italy, 21/09/2016 – 24/09/2016. Poster presentation: Flash sintering of ceria-based ceramics.

National Young Researcher Forum INSTM, Ischia, Italy, 11/07/2016 – 14/07/2016. Oral presentation: "Flash sintering of alumina". Poster presentation: Effect of glass addition on flash sintering of alumina.

ECI conference, Electric Field Assisted Sintering and Related Phenomena Far from Equilibrium, Tomar, Portugal, 06/03/2016 – 11/03/2016. Oral presentation: Flash sintering of glass containing alumina bodies.

40th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, USA, 23/01/2016 – 30/01/2016. Oral Presentation Flash Sintering of Alumina.

14th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society, Toledo, Spain, 21/06/2015 – 25/06/2015. Oral presentation: Field Assisted Sintering of Alumina-Silica Composites.

Seminars

Organizer of the webinar promoted by Materials, 10/06/2022, Title: Synthesis and Sintering of High Entropy Ceramics.

CRISMAT Laboratory, 19/04/2022, Seminar title: Flash sintering phenomenon in ionic conductors.

Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 22/06/2021, Seminar title: Field-assisted processing of glasses and ceramics.

Faculty of Physic of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Prof. Dietrich Wolf’s group, academic visit from 20/05 to 24/05/2019, Seminar title: Flash sintering mechanisms in 8YSZ.

Chair/conferences organization

Chair of session 6 of P04 (Manipulation of Matter by Electric and Magnetic Fields) during Materials Science and Engineering conference (MSE), online event, September 2020.

Member of the organization committee of the summer school on Manipulation of Matter by Magnetic and Electric Fields, online event, September 2020.

Member of the organizing committee of the symposium on “Field assisted processing” held in CICC11 conference, Kunming, China, May 2019.

Chair of the session Complex Ceramics (Energy, Functional, Structural, Optical) during Electric Field Enhanced Processing of Advanced Materials II: Complexities and Opportunities conference, Tomar, Portugal, March 2019.

Evaluation committees memberships

International research projects evaluator for the Czech Science Foundation, 2021, 2022.

Evaluator for the Italian representative selection for the European Ceramic Society student speech contest, 2021.

Hosting foreign researchers

Tutor of the research activity of Dr. Ashanul Kabir (Post-doc at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Danzig, Poland) visiting the University of Trento, July 2022 - JUly 2023.

Tutor of the research activity of Mr. Levant Karacasulu (Ph.D. student at the Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey) visiting the University of Trento, June-November 2022.

Project leader of the research activity of Dr. Monika Vilemova (senior researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ) visiting the University of Trento, April-September 2022.

Tutor of the research activity of Mr. Adam Alamayehu (Ph.D. student at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Charles University, Prague, CZ) visiting the University of Trento, October-November 2021.