Honors & Awards

  • 2022: Recipient of the AIMETA Junior Award 2022 in Mechanics of Solids and Structures from the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA), for the innovative contribution and scientific impact on the theoretical and numerical modelling of shape memoring materials, with particular reference to their plastic and fatigue behaviour combined with phase transitions and microstructure reorientation. Reading: Unipv

  • 2022: Recipient of the Actuators 2022 Best Paper Award from the MDPI Actuators Journal with the paper "Two-Way and Multiple-Way Shape Memory Polymers for Soft Robotics: An Overview". Reading: journal webpage

  • 2020: Recipient of the "2020 Young Researchers Prize" in the Engineering sector, instituted by the 2003 Group for Scientific Research, for the outstanding contribution to nonlinear mechanics of advanced multi-field structures. Reading: Scienza in Rete, Corriere della Sera, YouTube, UniPV, Pressinbag, UCampus, CNR, Fondazione Bracco.

  • 2015: Recipient of the "Best PhD Thesis of 2014 in Computational Solid Mechanics" Award by the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC).

  • 2015: Italian finalist selected by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) and the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC) for the "Best PhD Theses of 2014 on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering" Award and for the "Fifth ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad", awarded and organized by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) .

  • 2013: Recipient of the "Marco Polo University Programme" Fellowship, awarded by DICAM (University of Bologna, Italy) to carry out the research activity abroad.

  • January 2011 - December 2013: PhD Fellowship, awarded by the University of Bologna (Italy).

  • 2011: Recipient of the "Best Graduated Women of the Engineering and Chemistry Faculties of the University of Bologna in 2011" Award, sponsored by Emilia Romagna region, Bologna province, Unindustria Bologna et al.

  • 2010: Recipient of the "Certificate of Merit", awarded by Prof. Ivano Dionigi, Rector of the University of Bologna (Italy).

  • 2005: Recipient of the "Certificate of Merit in Scientific Disciplines", awarded by "Associazione Ex Alunni" of the Liceo Scientifico "Augusto Righi" (Bologna, Italy).