Congratulation to Davide Pavesi

Congratulations to Davide Pavesi on successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Design and Multi-Physics Simulation of Innovative High-Performance MEMS Gyroscopes”

This marks the end of a challenging and rewarding journey. I wish you all the best in your next steps. Ad majora!

Thanks to STMicroelectronics for funding the PhD scholarship and enabling this research, and to Northrop Grumman Italia and MEMS and Microsensors Laboratory at DEIB, PoliMi for the fruitful collaboration over the past three years.

Congratulation to Marco Antonacci

His research focuses on the design, numerical and experimental validation of metamaterials-based underwater acoustic barriers. A project funded by PON – Ricerca e Innovazione.

Thanks to the project partner Phononic Vibes and the co-supervisors Varvara Kouznetsova Ondřej Rokoš Massimiliano Cremonesi for their precious contributions!

Last but not least, thanks to Marco for accepting the challenge to be my first PhD student! It was a great journey together, full of challenges and exciting results!
Ad majora!

2025 MEMS Summer School

The Summer School ‘MEMS transducers after 2025: applications requirements, theoretical aspects, design approaches‘ co-organized with Giacomo Langfelder in Como from June 3rd 2025 to June 6th 2025, is successfully concluded.

44 participants from both industry and academia

14 outstanding invited speakers – Nuria Barniol, Andrea Buffoli, Cristian Cassella, Roberto Carminati, Claudia Comi, Alberto Corigliano, David Elata, Vittorio Ferrari, Attilio Frangi, Paolo Frigerio, Francesco Locatelli, Federico Maspero, Sabina Merlo, Dusan Radovic

1 amazing location – Villa del Grumello, Como

Thanks to our sponsors TDK InvenSense Bosch Sensortec GmbH Murata and IEEE Technical Committee on Inertial Sensors and Systems (TCISS) , to the Lake Como Summer School and Associazione Volta (Alberto Marzorati and Mariagiovanna Falasconi ) and to all the participants for making the Summer School so successful!

IEEE INERTIAL 2025

It was great to attend IEEE INERTIAL 2025 in Lindau and meet friends and colleagues!

Three days full of exciting results and inspiring discussions on MEMS inertial sensors!

Davide Pavesi presented the poster ‘High quality factor fused silica toroidal ring gyroscope‘ performed in collaboration with UC Irvine.

Carolina Viola from Northrop Grumman Italia presented the work ‘Whole-angle gyroscopes on mass on mass-production process: Dual Focault Pendulum versus Disk Resonant Gyroscope‘ performed in collaboration with STMicroelectronics and the MEMS and Microsensors Laboratory at DEIB, Politecnico di Milano.

2024 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award – Early Career

It is a great honor for me to receive such a prestigious award!

A big thanks to the IEEE Sensors Council, to the MEMS group at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Politecnico di Milano and to all the amazing researchers I had the pleasure to meet during my (short) career.

2024 AIMETA junior award

It is an honor to receive the 2024 AIMETA (Italian Society of Theoric and Applied Mechanics) junior award in Mechanics of Solids and Structures.

Thanks to all the amazing researchers I had the pleasure to collaborate with in these years at both Politecnico di Milano and Eindhoven University of Technology.

Congratulations to Lichen Weng and Negin Mohtasham

Congratulations to Lichen Weng and negin mohtasham.m that successfully defended their master thesis at Politecnico di Milano

👨🏻‍🎓Lichen thesis focuses on the design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a MEMS ring resonator.
Thanks to Federico Maspero, Giorgio Gobat and the whole PoliFAB staff at Politecnico di Milano for your precious contribution.

👩🏻‍🎓Negin thesis focuses instead on the design and numerical modelling of an innovative MEMS z-axis capacitive accelerometer.
Thanks to Yassine Banani, Gabriele Gattere and the full MEMS group at STMicroelectronics Italia for your support to the research activity.

IEEE SENSORS 2023

Enjoying the IEEE SENSORS 2023 conference in Vienna, Austria.

A great opportuniy to meet colleagues and friends and to share our recent results on a biaxial xz MEMS capacitive accelerometer with in-plane differential readout.

If you are interested, give a look to our paper recently published on IEEE Sensors Letters
C. Galimberti, G. Gattere, M. Riani, V. Zega ‘A new design strategy for innovative MEMS xz-biaxial accelerometer’ IEEE Sensors Letters 7 (10), (2023) 2503504.

Thanks to my co-authors Chiara Galimberti, Gabriele Gattere, Manuel Riani and to the Joint Research Platform STEAM between STMicroelectronics and Politecnico di Milano that supported the project.

Transducers 2023

Presenting the design and exprimental characterization of the new MEMS long- stroke actuator based on tunnel-comb fingers at the TRANSDUCERS2023 conference in Kyoto.

The work has been carried out within the joint research center STMicroelectronics and Politecnico di Milano.
Thanks a lot to my co-authors Andrea Opreni Yassine Banani Andrea Buffoli Flavia D. Mauri Gabriele Gattere Manuel Riani Giacomo Langfelder and Attilio Frangi.

[1] V. Zega, A. Opreni, Y. Banani, A. Buffoli, F. D. Mauri, G. Gattere, M. Riani,G. Langfleder, A. Frangi ‘Design and experimental validation of a new MEMS long-stroke actuator based on tunnel-comb fingers’ Transducers 2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 25-29, 2023

Congratulations to Chiara Gazzola

Congratulations to Chiara Gazzola for the PhD title cum laude she got today at Politecnico di Milano!
It was a great pleasure to work with you in these years and an honor to be your co-supervisor!
My best wishes for your future brilliant career!