Alessandro CHIOLERIO
Politronica Srl

 Born in Asti on 30th July 1980, Alessandro got his PhD in Electron Devices on February 2009 at Politecnico di Torino, Physics Department, defending a thesis on spintronic devices. Afterwards during his Post Doc at the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department he studied nanocomposite materials featuring electromagnetic properties (2009-2011). Later he was Senior PostDoc (2012) and Researcher (2013-2014) at the Center for Sustainable Futures of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Torino, where now he is working on materials-oriented research activities on the Advanced Materials platform in the field of functional nanocomposites. He was visiting researcher (2015) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech-NASA) dealing with a project on advanced liquid robotics.

In parallel to his research activities, in 2008 he founded a spin-off company, Politronica Inkjet Printing S.r.l., of which now he is CEO and shareholder. Politronica core business is the digital / analog printing of functional devices by means of smart inks featuring electromagnetic properties. Very recently, in 2015, he started a second company, Polìpo S.r.l., proposing an innovative process for the manufacturing of biodegradable polymers from vegetable-derived compounds.

He is co-author of more than 70 papers in international peer-reviewed ISI journals, 15 proceedings of international conferences, 13 book chapters, 1 book and 9 patents. He contributed with oral presentations to 35 conferences, of which 15 on invitation (3 keynote lectures among the invited).

He is principal investigator for IIT of several european, regional and industrial projects and is routinely involved in technology transfer activities being the contact point between industries and research.

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