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The mission of the doctoral program in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN) is to be an international centre of excellence for the training of the next generation of research and industry leaders.

We’ve put together some profiles of our current and recent doctoral students. Find out what research they are undertaking, why they chose Reading and what advice they’d give to new students.

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PhD Stories

Resilient EVs Infrastructure, Sustainable World

Lida Naseh Moghanlou
“My research concerns the development of a framework to assess the risk and the resilience of a System of Systems (SoS) that integrates Electric Vehicles (EVs), conventional transportation network and electric power system and considers risk scenarios on the electrified transportation system”.

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Modelling cities

Martina Ferrando
“My research concerns the energy modelling of buildings at the urban scale, called UBEM. The topic poses great challenges in the systematic simplification of cities to create working models”.

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Fluids and beyond

Igor Matteo Carraretto
“I decided to get back to the books and I matriculated to a PhD program here in Milano, focusing on the study of foam motion in pipelines”.

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Find opportunities in IOT 4.0

Mei Chen
“My research is mainly about modelling of flexible manufacturing system with petri net and robust optimizing its process planning and scheduling in uncertain environments using artificial intelligence algorithms”.

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Humanistic Engineer

Nicolò Stevanato
“In my research I deal with the issue of access to energy. It might seem incredible but almost one billion people today live without electricity in their homes, without being able, in turn, to access the most basic services, such as the possibility to study after daylight, to have access to basic health services or run simple commercial activities”.

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CFD for Future Mobility

Andrea Vespertini
“My PhD project aims at designing and testing innovative after-treatment systems for internal combustion engines, in which a key role is played by the adoption of cellular substrates”.

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Meeting challenges of hydrogen mobility

Amedeo Grimaldi.
“My PhD project was born from the collaboration of two research groups of the Department of Energy, here in Polimi, the MRT Fuel Cell & Battery LAB and the Air LAB, and it is part of those PhD projects, funded by the Energy for Motion initiative, that favors and funds projects for the development of sustainable mobility”.

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