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Silvia Aurora Bruno, Roberto Bertazzoni Scholarship winner: Erasmus, restoration and the dream of a PhD
Silvia Aurora Bruno is enrolled in the Master’s degree programme in Architecture, Built Environment and Heritage at Politecnico di Milano and is one…
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Tommaso Gnudi and Livia Arianna Mazzetti among the winners of the Nuove Guglie Carlo Tognoli award
With a thesis on the ecological restoration of the Seveso river
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Buildings that store energy: Marilena Scorzetti’s award-winning research on energy flexibility
The topic is the energy flexibility of buildings: their ability to adjust energy demand over time to what the grid can supply, offsetting the…
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From seawater to green hydrogen: the thesis looking toward the future of energy
Giulio Cavina, Polimi Alumnus, wins the Pastonesi Award
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A forest before the building: the thesis from Gianmarco Gobbo that rethinks Rogoredo wins the Noemi Basso Award
It all started with a simple question: why design the building first, when the competition brief talks about a forest? That's the origin of the thesis…
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Nicolas Scalia wins the "Prof. Ottorino Sesini" 2026 Scholarship with a thesis on wearable exoskeletons
He submitted his application in December, amid the hectic days of graduation. Then he started working and the whole thing slipped his mind. The email…
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From a passion for trains to a PhD in railway dynamics: the story of Francesco Zammit
Francesco Zammit is one of the winners of the Parizzi Scholarship, the fund that supports PhD programs in the railway field at Politecnico di Milano
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Studying the Wind to Make Freight Transport More Sustainable: Enrico Inghilleri’s Story
Enrico Inghilleri is a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano studying a lesser-known aspect of rail transport: the aerodynamics of freight trains. In…
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Vibrations under control: Andrea Motta wins the "Prof. Francesco Rosa" Award
A titanium metastructure to protect cryo-TEM microscopes from the micro-vibrations that blur their images
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Lithium batteries and the energy transition: the story of Pietro Bertocchi
Graduate in Energy Engineering, now a PhD candidate at the Department of Energy, he won the Master's Thesis Award “Enel Foundation – Polimi…