Principal Investigator

Benedetto Marelli

 

Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Research Interests:

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biomaterials, self-assembly, food security, food safety, agriculture, regenerative medicine, additive manufacturing and emerging technologies

 

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Education:

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- B.Eng. Biomedical Engineering 2005, Politecnico di Milano

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- M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, 2008, Politecnico di Milano

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- Ph.D. Materials Engineering, 2011, McGill University

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- Postdoctoral Scholar, 2012-2015, Silklab, Tufts University

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Postdocs

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Dr. Eugene Lim

Silk fibroin synthetic biology

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Dr. Doyoon Kim

Food security and nano fabrication

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Dr. Muchun Liu

2D materials nanochannels, Silk-based materials, Sustainable design of nanomaterials

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Dr. Yagmur Yegin

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Dr. Yue Hu

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Dr. Yangyang Han
(SMART-DiSTAP)

Micro and nanofabrication of biomaterials

 

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Dr. Raju Cheerlavancha
(SMART-DiSTAP)

Micro and nanofabrication of biomaterials, Organic Synthesis, Sensors

 

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Graduate Students

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Zeina Barghouti

PhD student

- B.S. '21 Texas A&M University at Qatar

 

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Hui Sun

PhD Candidate

- B. Eng '13 Sichuan University

- M.S. '16 Peking University

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

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Yunteng Cao

PhD Candidate

- B.Eng '13 - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

~ M.Eng. '16 - Xi’an Jiaotong University 

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Augustine Zvinavashe

PhD Candidate

- B.Sc. '16 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Soccer, reading about economics, psychology and social issues, hiking.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Visiting Students

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Haruka Sakurai

MSci Chemistry '22, Imperial College London

Biomaterial fabrication, Bioactive hydrogels

Hiking, Baking Bread, Singing Disney songs, reading about cellular agriculture

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Postdoc Alumni

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Dr. Federica Rigoldi

Machine learning, peptide design, molecular dynamics

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Timothy Roberts

CEE - Capstone

William Popov

CEE - Capstone

Augustine Zvinavashe

CEE - Capstone

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Shannon Wing

CEE

Emily Soice

CEE

Mohammed AlDajani

MechE

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Visiting Students Alumni

Elisabetta Ruggeri

Visiting Master Student - Politecnico di Milano

Julie Laurent

Visiting Master Student - EPFL

Giulia Piervenanzi

Visiting Master Student - Politecnico di Milano

Anita Mollo

Visiting Master Student - Politecnico di Milano

Benedetta Petracca

Visiting Master Student - Politecnico di Milano

Nicola Contessi

Visiting PhD student - Rocca Fellow - Politecnico di Milano

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