Personale docente

Daniel Milanese is Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology at the University of Parma (Italy) since 2019. He gained a PhD in Materials Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2001 and then served as Assistant Professor (2002-2014) and Associate Professor (2014-2019) at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Since 2023 he has been appointed Rector's Delegate for Technology Transfer.

 His research interests focus on the study and manufacture of sustainable materials for packaging, construction, and industrial applications. His work covers the entire value chain, from the synthesis of polymer matrices and their processing to the fabrication of samples and functional prototypes. Daniel Milanese also works on circular materials, with a particular focus on the recycling of thermoplastic polymers for packaging applications and carbon fibers for the automotive sector. Finally, he collaborates with the Materials Technology group at the University of Parma on the development of sustainable cementitious materials containing inorganic waste (vitrified slag from waste-to-energy plants) and organic waste (plastic waste, biochar) through the selection and characterization of waste materials and verification of their integration into cementitious materials.

He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and 2 European patents. He participated in several regional and national research projects, and he was Coordinator of the H2020 MSCA-ITN project “Photonics for Healthcare: multiscale cancer diagnosis and therapy”. Prof. Milanese spent visiting periods undertaking research in the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK – 1998/99), the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA – 2008), and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA – 2014). He has been Associate Editor of the OSA’s Journal Optical Materials Express (2014-2018), he is currently Rector’s Delegate for Technology Transfer at the University of Parma, senior member of the Optical Society and member of the Italian Association of Materials Engineers (AIMAT), and of the Italian Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM).

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