Our Team

Giuliana Mattiazzo

FULL PROFESSOR
Director of the Research Center

giovanni bracco more lab

Giovanni Bracco

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Project manager




Ermanno Giorcelli

CONFIRMED RESEARCHER
Senior researcher

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Mauro Bonfanti

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (RTDA)
Numerical modeling, optimization
and experimental studies of Hydraulic PTOs for wave energy devices

Fabio Carapellese

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Design of an Omni-directional Wave
Energy Converter, numerical
modeling and dynamic

Nicolás Faedo

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (RTDA)
Model reduction and
optimal control for Wave Energy Converters

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Giuseppe Giorgi

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (RTDA)
Nonlinear hydrodynamic modelling
and optimization of Wave Energy Converters

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Bruno Paduano

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (RTDA)
Numerical modeling, mooring
analysis and design for wave and
wind offshore systems

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Sergej Antonello Sirigu

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (RTDA)
Numerical and experimental
modelling of wave energy
converters

Francesco Balestrieri

PhD STUDENT
High hydrodynamic efficiency boat design with hydrogen fueling


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Beatrice Battisti

PhD STUDENT
Numerical modeling and
optimisation of wave energy
converters arrays

Caterina Carà

PhD STUDENT
Modelling the energy system at national level in an optimal configuration of renewable resources and storage for decarbonisation

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Pietro Casalone

PhD STUDENT
Hydrodynamic and
CFD modeler


Maria Luisa Celesti

PhD STUDENT
Modelling and control of Offshore Wind & Wave Hybrid Platforms


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Giulia Cervelli

PhD STUDENT
Estimation of wave
energy resource

Carola Chicco

PhD STUDENT
Enviromental and impact assestment of offshore renewable energy systems

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Oronzo Dell'Edera

PhD STUDENT
Analysis and definition of extreme events related to sea states, CFD
analysis of devices under design

Lorenzo Dutto

PhD STUDENT
Development of an AI based optimization tool for offshore wind farm layout optimization and informed decision making

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Beatrice Fenu

PhD STUDENT
Floating offshore
Wind and Wave platforms modeling and
experimental tests

Marco Fontana

PhD STUDENT
CFD models, sloshing
tanks and Liquid Tuned Dampers


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Alberto Ghigo

PhD STUDENT
Numerical modeling of
offshore wind turbines


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Enrico Giglio

PhD STUDENT
Planning and operation
of high‐RES energy scenarios

Sara Gigliotti

RESEARCH FELLOW
Study of service life of floating wind turbines

Leonardo Gambarelli

PhD STUDENT
Estimation and assessment of the offshore resources, spatial interpolation through satellite data

Filippo Giorcelli

PhD STUDENT
Robust optimization framework for wave energy converters


Mattia Glorioso

RESEARCH FELLOW
Chief for experimental research



Davide Issoglio

PhD STUDENT
Offshore renewable energy underwater noise evaluation and mitigation strategies

Gabriele Mangia

PhD STUDENT
Fatigue behavior study on floating offshore wind turbines

Claudio Moscoloni

PhD STUDENT
Decision-Making for energy systems
decarbonization

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Francesco Niosi

PhD STUDENT
Numerical modeling, mooring
analysis and CFD of WEC and
offshore wind system

Guglielmo Papini

PhD STUDENT
Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control for wave energy converters


Edoardo Pasta

PhD STUDENT
Control of Wave Energy Converters, application of data-driven techniques and machine learning strategies

Ermando Petracca

PhD STUDENT
Modelling and optimization of Offshore Wind & Wave Hybrid Platforms


Jacopo Ramello

RESEARCH FELLOW
Design, construction and testing of a lubrification system for boats

Magnus Schneider

VISITOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Wave Modelling and impact assessment of Offshore Wind Energy farms

Massimo Sirigu

PhD STUDENT
Structural and dynamic analysis of floating substructures for offshore wind turbines

Our research is supported by Journal Articles and Conferences.
The result of years of study in scientific and academic research developed by professors, researchers, PhD student and fellow

Past members

Riccardo Caradonna

Marta Casassa

Domenico Castellano

Alessandro Cogo

Natalia Citarella

Lorenzo Cottura

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Panagiotis Dafnakis

Luigi Di Paolo

emilio more energy team

Emilio Faraggiana

Michele Martini

Aju Menon

Facundo Mosquera

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Riccardo Novo

Vincenzo Orlando

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Pietro Pagnan

luca parrinello more lab

Luca Parrinello

Biagio Passione

Maurizio Ponzetta

Nicola Pozzi

Marcello Rava

Mattia Raffero

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Marco Serra

Fabio Viotti

Giacomo Vissio