Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory July 2023 – Present
- Design of instantaneous whole-body controller for take-off maneuvers of flying humanoid robots.
- Co-tutor Ph.D. candidates and research fellows in areas of mechanical design and hardware optimization.
Visiting Ph.D. Student
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems September 2022 – February 2023
- Aerodynamic modeling and trajectory optimization for flying multibody drones.
- Hardware optimization of flying drones with morphing wings.
Ph.D. Student
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory February 2020 – June 2023
- Design, modeling, and control of rigid multibody systems with close kinematic chains.
- Development of an open source multibody simulator to test “morphing covers”.
Research Fellow
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory April 2018 – January 2020
- Design of model-based whole-body optimal control of jumping humanoid robots via inverse kinematics and dynamics.
- Mechanical design of a flying humanoid robot powered with jet engines.
- Design of experimental setups for testing flying humanoid robots and jet engines.

Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Manchester February 2020 – October 2023
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Politecnico di Milano October 2016 – December 2018
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Politecnico di Milano October 2013 – September 2016

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python

Matlab/Simulink

C++

Software and Tools

CasADi

git

Windows

Linux/WLS2

office

LaTeX

PTC Creo

Awards

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ∙ May 2024

Politecnico di Milano ∙ November 2019

Conferenza Italiana di Robotica e Macchine Intelligenti ∙ October 2019

Politecnico di Milano ∙ September 2014

Languages

70%

English

100%

Italian