Personale
Laboratorio IMEM di Torino
c/o Politecnico di Torino
ChiLab - Materials and Microsystems Laboratory
Referente: Simone L. Marasso

 

Gruppo

 

Marasso
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Simone L. Marasso, PhD
His current position is role Researcher at CNR-IMEM and he is responsible for the research activities at the operative unit at the Politecnico di Torino. He received his master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2005. After obtaining his PhD in Electronic Devices in 2010, he conducted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and he worked in Chilab, materials and microsystem laboratory of Politecnico di Torino, Chivasso (TO), Italy. He is currently involved in teaching, lecturing and tutoring activities in physics area (FIS/03, NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR ICTs, PhD School). Since 2018, he is involved in the foundation of the Piemonte Quantum Enabling Technology LAB, in which he is contributing for the cleanroom design and set-up. His expertise in the process implementation, gained in the laboratory research work, will allow to define the design, select the better materials and solutions for the fabrication of the sensors and their integration in the Organ on a Chip biosensing platform.

 

Cocuzza
ASSOCIATED RESEARCHER: Prof. Matteo Cocuzza
Matteo Cocuzza got his MD in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Devices in 2003. Currently Professor at the Dept. of Applied Science and Technology of Politecnico di Torino and associated researcher of IMEM-CNR. In 1998, he was one of the founders of the Chilab-Materials and Microsystems Laboratory. He is currently lecturer of master's degree courses related to MEMS, micro- and nano-technologies, also in the framework of the International Master Degree in Nanotechnologies for ICT (joined master between Politecnico di Torino, INPG Grenoble and EPFL Lausanne). His research activity is focused on MEMS and microsensors for industrial applications, on the development of microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip for biomedical applications and, more recently, on the development and application of polymeric 3-D printing technologies.

 

Bertana
COLLABORATOR: Valentina Bertana, PhD.
Dr. Valentina Bertana received her BSc and MSc Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In February 2020 she received her PhD degree at Politecnico di Torino in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering and in March 2020 she started a post-doc fellowship at the Department of Applied Science and Technology of the same university. Since 2017 she is Teaching Associate for the course Physics I. As concerns research activities, she is involved in different funded Italian and European projects, which are mainly focused on additive manufacturing, smart materials, printable electronics, microfluidics and integrated systems.
Ballesio
COLLABORATOR: Alberto Ballesio, PhD.
Dr. Alberto Ballesio is a researcher at DISAT Politecnico di Torino (Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ITALY). He received his master’s degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs from Politecnico di Torino in 2017 with a thesis focused on the experimental analysis of magnetic field-induced splitting of ferrofluid droplets performed in the School of Science at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland). After obtaining his PhD in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Summa Cum Laude in 2021 from Politecnico di Torino, he is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in Chilab, materials and microsystem laboratory of Politecnico di Torino, Chivasso (TO), Italy. He is currently involved in teaching, lecturing and tutoring activities in physics area (FIS/01, FIS/03, Physics 1 laboratories). His research activities focus on design and development of electrical biosensors, graphene transfer, Lab on Chip and microfluidic devices. He is co-author of 8 publications covering different fields related to micro and nano-technologies, materials, sensors and bio-sensors, with an h-index of 4 (Scopus, February 2022).
Parmeggiani
COLLABORATOR: Matteo Parmeggiani, PhD.
Dr. Matteo Parmeggiani received his master’s degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs from Politecnico di Torino in 2016, with a thesis focused on silicon-nanowire transistors for biosensing applications performed in the Department of Applied Physics at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden). He received his PhD in Physics, Summa cum Laude, in 2021 from IIT@Polito (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy). His doctoral research work focused on the development of organic transistors for biosensing applications. During his PhD, he spent six months as visiting researcher at the department of Quantum Nanoscience at TU Delft (Netherlands), working on molecular electronics. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at Chilab – Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, DISAT, Politecnico di Torino. His research activity focuses on the development and characterization of organic electronics devices. He is currently involved in teaching activities in physics area (FIS01), and he is co-author of 12 publications, with a h-index of 6 (Scopus, February 2022).
Segantini
COLLABORATOR: Matteo Segantini, PhD Student.
Matteo Segantini received his bachelor's degree in Physical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2015, after which he continued his studies obtaining the master's degree in Nanotechnology for ICTs in 2017 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Politecnico di Torino and Grenoble - INP. He carried out his thesis at the IBM Research Center of Almaden, California, where he worked on the development and characterization of nanostructured metal-oxide-based gas sensors for biomedical applications. From 2018 to 2019 he worked as a Research and Development Engineer for a biomedical company on a microfluidic disposable device for an automated molecular testing platform for diagnostics of infectious diseases. At the end of 2019 he started his PhD in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, where he is currently working on the microfluidic integration of conductive polymers-based biosensors at the ChiLab Material and Microsystems Laboratory. His interests are focused on biomedical devices, microfluidics, IC technologies and nanomedicine.
Cacocciola
COLLABORATOR: Nicolò Cacocciola, PhD student.
Nicolò Cacocciola is a PhD Student in Electrical, Electronics and Comunnications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy). He graduated in Engineering Physics at Politecnico di Torino in 2017, and received his MSc in Physics at UniTO in 2019 with a thesis work entitled “TCAD Simulation of novel pixel detectors and future perspectives with Silicon Photonics integration”. His current research activities focuses on Organ-on-a-chip technology and Organic thin film transistors (OTFT) for biosensing applications. He has advanced expertise with cleanroom processes and micro&nano fabrications, finite element modeling, digital/analog electronics design and simulation and Arduino controlled circuits design and programming.
Camilli
COLLABORATOR: Elena Camilli, PhD student.
Eng. Elena Camilli is a PhD student at DISAT Politecnico di Torino. She received her bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Università degli Studi Roma Tre in 2018 and her master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2021, with a thesis entitled: “Development and characterization of an Electrolytic-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistor for biosensing applications”. She started in 2022 the PhD in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, and her research is currently focused on the development of 3D printable Biosensors. Her work is carried out at ChiLab Material and Microsystems Laboratory, Nanoscience Lab, and PolitoBIOMed Lab.
Aghaianloo
COLLABORATOR: Behrouz Aghajanloo, visiting student.
Behrouz Aghajanloo is a visiting student at Politecnico di Torino (Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ITALY). He received his B.Sc. degree from Tabriz University and his M. Sc. degree from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. He started a visiting program since Sep 2020 in Chilab, materials and microsystem laboratory of Politecnico di Torino, Chivasso (TO), Italy. He is currently working on some projects focusing on development of pumpless lab-on-chip platforms for biological applications.