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Education

2018 – 2022: Ph.D. cum laude in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2016 – 2018: M.Sc. degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2013 – 2016: B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering – Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Academic Experience

October 2022 – present: Junior Assistant Professor – RTD-A (SSD: ICHI-02/A - Impianti Chimici) – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
04/2022 – 10/2022: Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2022 – present: Professor in charge of the course IMPIANTI e PROCESSI CHIMICI (modulo IMPIANTI CHIMICI) for graduate students in Energy Engineering – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2019 – present: Teaching assistant of the course IMPIANTI CHIMICI (Prof. Laura Annamaria Pellegrini) for undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering – Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Research Interests

Her research interests are focused on the design of novel sustainable processes, considering the modelling of mass-transfer phenomena for reacting and non-reacting systems, also using commercial simulation packages such as Aspen Plus^®, Aspen HYSYS^®, Promax^®, ProTreat^®. For the process design and intensification, particular attention is paid to the system’s thermodynamics, by the choice and the proper calibration of Equations of State, mixing rules and methods.

Her research activity includes:

• sustainable aviation fuels production via Fisher-Tropsch or alcohol-to-jet pathway;
• transport and storage of hydrogen as an energy vector, to promote decarbonization, through the techno-economic analysis of different H₂ value-chains (ammonia, LOHC, liquefied hydrogen);
• green ammonia synthesis intensification, to enable its implementation as a carbon free energy carrier;
• bio-alcohols dehydration through energy-efficient separations, in view of biofuels production;
• H₂S valorisation into high value-added chemicals (e., hydrophilic fertilizers/hydrogen);
• nitrogen and helium removal from natural gas by cryogenic distillation.

Networks and Affiliations

She is member of GASP (Group on Advanced Separation Processes & GAS Processing), led by Prof. Laura Annamaria Pellegrini.

She has been member of European section of the Gas Processors Association.

Scientific publications

She is the first author/co-author of about 35 scientific articles published in international journals (list of publications available at https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57211092932) and a monograph: “Green H₂ Transport through LH₂, NH₃ and LOHC: Opportunities and Challenges”, edited by Springer.

She is the co-inventor of 2 international patents (WO2024121702A1 and WO2024121703A1) regarding energy-efficient separation schemes for alcohols dehydration in view of biofuels production.

Awards

2024: Eni Award – Young Researcher of the Year (Prize awarded at Palazzo del Quirinale on October 15, 2024).

Additional Information

• She is/has been involved in contracts between the Politecnico di Milano and external companies (Eni S.p.A.; Saipem S.p.A.; Snam; a2a SpA; Ecospray Technologies S.r.l.; ITALMATCH CHEMICALS S.p.A.; T.EN Stone & Webster Process Technology, Inc.);
• She is advisor and co-advisor of Bachelor's and Master's theses in Chemical Engineering and Energy Engineering;
• She regularly attends international conferences in process design and modelling;
• She is a peer reviewer (>10 articles/year) for international journals (Fuel, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of CO2 Utilization, Chemical Engineering Journal, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Separation and Purification Technologies, AIChE Journal, …).

 

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