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Synergy, diversity and passion make research successful
While Paola Antonietti tells her story, we read her love for mathematics in her eyes. A love that was born as a child, grew up during her studies in Pavia, followed her in her research activity in England, and then accompanied her to the Politecnico, where she is now a professor of numerical analysis. Here she has recently taken over as director of MOX, a laboratory of modeling and scientific computing, from its historic founder, Alfio Quarteroni.
But what does it mean for you to do research? Above all, it means creating synergies between several researchers. Maybe that’s why with her project NEMESIS has earned European funding that bears the name of ERC SYNERGY GRANT.
At the heart of research
Cruising through cultures in Milan on trolleybus 90/91
Using an ethnographic approach, researcher Martina Bovo analyzed the complex social and spatial dynamics that manifest themselves daily within this compressed public space.
What the hospital of the future will look like
The goal of a hospital is to treat patients better: physical space can also contribute to the cause. Andrea Brambilla takes stock of research in the field of hospital architecture at the Design & Health Lab
In and out of Politecnico
The environmental adventurer
Some time ago Alex Bellini, explorer and environmental popularizer from Valtellina, came to visit us at the Politecnico. We made the climatic chamber of the LiDuP Laboratory available to him to test the resistance to the cold of Alaska, down to –40°C, of his bicycle 3D printed in recycled polycarbonate, with which he then traveled 1,800 km on snow and sand.
Past and future
BBPRs between architectural design and militant anti-fascism
Studio BBPR has its roots at the Politecnico di Milano, where in 1932 Banfi, Belgiojoso, Rogers and Peressutti graduated from our Faculty of Architecture, working together on their thesis.
We tell you about the lives of four men who will change the history of architecture, but who in turn will be overwhelmed by history: the resistance, the exile, the deportation; and for one of them, even premature death.
Safer and more efficient rechargeable batteries thanks to fluorinated surface coating
Batteries are undoubtedly protagonists in the current development of sustainable mobility. It is always necessary to keep the primary, non-rechargeable, and the secondary, rechargeable ones separate.
LIFT Energy is a battery that leverages fluorinated materials and their applications to make lithium metal compatible with “rechargeability“. Born at Maurizio Sansotera‘s Fluoritech Laboratory, the idea has become a patent available to potential investors.