2023: Appointed as Associate Editor of the journal Actuators for section 'Actuator Materials' by MDPI.
2023: Appointed as Associate Editor of the journal Programmable Materials by Cambridge University Press. It is the first journal dedicated to publishing original research, review articles and case studies describing the latest developments in programmable materials from both academia and industry. Reading: Journal Editorial Board.
2023: Invited as a keynote speaker at the International Conference "Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained through Additive Manufacturing - SIRAMM23" organised by Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Keynote speech: Programmable materials and 4D printing: advanced modeling and applications).
2022: Invited at the MOX Seminar "When shape memory polymers meet 4D printing: challenges, advances, and perspectives in material modeling and simulation" organised by Politecnico di Milano as a keynote speaker on recent modeling, computational, and experimental efforts to achieve programmability in light- and thermoresponsive shape memory polymers manufactured via 4D printing.
2022: Invited at the International Summer School on New Advances in Materials for Additive Manufacturing organised by the University of Brescia as a lecturer on 4D Printing. (Lecture: "Constitutive modelling of active materials and its application to 4D printing").
2022: Invited at 4D Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing Conference 2022 organised by the 4D Printing Society as a keynote speaker on Smart Materials in Additive Manufacturing (Keynote speech: "4D printed programmable structures: from experiments to modeling").
2021: Invited at TEDx Pavia. Reading: La provincia pavese. UniPV, Inchiostro. Video: Youtube
2021: Glad to announce that the 4D Printing Society is on the Web! Visit the Webpage or LinkedIn page.
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.