Researchers in DIGIMAN4.0

Danilo Quagliotti,

Danilo Quagliotti has 14+ years' experience in metrology gained initially at INRIM, the Italian National Metrology Institute and, successively, at the Technical University of Denmark—DTU. He started his career dealing with absolute gravity measurements and force metrology, followed by multi-physics modelling mainly in the context of the redefinition of the kilogram by fundamental constants. He is currently researching is in the field of metrology for micro and nano manufacturing, focusing on statistical techniques for uncertainty evaluation and quality assurance. He is also lecturer of ‘Geometrical metrology and machine testing’ at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of DTU. In DIGIMAN4.0 he is responsible for the professional development workshops ‘Research Project Management’, and ‘Teaching & Learning, Student Supervision, PhD Project Management’

José Antonio Albajez García,

He has been involved in several national and European research projects and he is author of more than 60 journal and conference research papers.

Marta Torralba,

Marta Torralba is an Assistant Professor at Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza (affiliated to University of Zaragoza) and member of the Manufacturing Engineering and Advanced Metrology Group (GIFMA) since 2011. Her current research focuses on dimensional metrology, precision engineering, and quality control and zero-defect methodologies. During her PhD, she was involved in developing a two‐dimensional and long range positioning stage for nanotechnology applications and she could research as a visiting scholar at the Center for Precision Metrology at UNC Charlotte (USA). Other research projects have been related to lean tools and dimensional measurements using computed tomography.

Massimiliano Annoni,

Associate Professor, Massimiliano Annoni, Politecnico di Milano. Massimiliano Annoni is Associate Professor in Technologies and Production Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). He carries out research activities for developing and applying advanced manufacturing operations of milling, micromachining, high precision waterjet machining, extrusion-based additive manufacturing and their combinations in complex and hybrid process chains, with a specific attention to the application of I4.0 tools to manufacturing processes. He is the coordinator of PoliMill, MI_crolab and WJ_Lab laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. He is scientific coordinator of WatAJet, a spin-off company of PoliMi dealing with high precision waterjet cutting. He has been the coordinator of various regional projects and he has participated into various European projects, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Innovative Training Networks (ITN)). He is author of more than 120 publications on international journals and conference proceedings and he is Associate Editor of Manufacturing Letters and the Journal of Manufacturing Processes (SME).

David Pedersen,

David is a leading national and internationally renowned expert in Additive Manufacturing (AM) and is operate as the lead researcher of the AM group at DTU Mechanical Engineering that encompass 22 researchers from phd candidate level to senior researcher level. David carries a deep insight in the family of process technologies that adjoin under the terminology of AM. David has in recent years focused on advances on AM as a palette of highly automated and hyperflexible manufacturing processes for the manufacture of industrial components and as an enabling technology for new process chains. This includes but is not exclusive to Systems Development, Material Science and Process Technologies. Focus is also on algorithms for 3D geometry handling, development of dedicated control electronics and control software. Novel research areas includes Open Architecture AM Systems, Multi Material- as well as Quality Assurance and Geometric Verification by Computer Vision. Since the emerge of Industry 4.0 as a paradigm shifter in industrial manufacturing, David has broadened his field of research to encompass how the highly exponential behavior of digital technologies affect all aspect of the cyber-physical value- and process chain of the industrial manufacturing of tomorrow.

Marcello Urgo,

Marcello Urgo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He holds a PhD in the field of Manufacturing Systems and Technologies (2008) focused on Robust Production Planning in Manufacturing-to-Order Systems Using A Stochastic Programming Approach. He has been Visiting Researcher at MTA-SZTAKI Budapest with Prof. Jozsef Vancza on Risk-Based Stochastic Scheduling, and at the Institut für Integrierte Produktion in Hannover with Dr. Ing. Steffen Reinsch on Supply Chain Analysis and Reorganization.

Dr. Urgo's main research interests are in the field of (1) Project Scheduling Approaches for Production Planning under Uncertainty, Stochastic Programming Approaches to Production Planning under Uncertainty, Production Process Modeling for Production Planning in Complex Manufacturing Systems, (2) Design, modelling and analysis of manufacturing systems, (3) Development of scheduling algorithms, performance and sensitivity analysis for the algorithms and the solution.

He is author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. He is Member of the Italian Association for Manufacturing Technology (AITEM) and Associate Member of the CIRP - International Academy for Production Engineering.

Daniele 

Mazzei,

Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of The University of Pisa.

Graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2006 and PhD in May 2010 in Automatic Robotic and Bioengineering at the University of Pisa.

His research focuses on the Industrial Internet of Things and human-robot and machine interaction. He is co-inventor of 8 patents, co-author of 52 Scopus indexed publications with 747 citations and h-index of 15 and also co-author of 2 book chapters. He is co-founder of Zerynth and Chief Innovation Officer.

Francesco Sortino,