MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships "NEW-TECH"
People
Principal investigator
Hamdi Ezzin is a postdoctoral researcher expert in modeling acoustic wave propagation in smart materials such as piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, phononic, and functionally graded materials. He received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science of Sfax (Tunisia). During his Ph.D. in Tunisia, he investigated the propagation behavior of acoustic waves in homogenous piezoelectric/piezomagnetic materials with the aid of the ordinary differential equation (ODE) and the Green method. Moreover, the fellow has some postdoctoral experience at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2018-2022) as well as at the University of Parma (2022-2023).
In 2024, Dr. Hamdi obtained an Individual Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, aiming to create a new energy harvesting device for prolonging the battery life of implantable electronic devices.
Project supervisor
Prof. Roberto Brighenti is a Full Professor at the Department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Florence. He has a strong publication record in the field of mechanics of advanced materials and polymers. His research interests are: (a) Modelling the mechanics of soft materials, (b) Fracture behavior of soft materials (c), Computational material science.
Before joining the University of Florence, he spent 25 years working as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Parma, and he participated as co-coordinator in several projects, such as the H2020 CSA SIRAMM project (2019-2023). He has been visiting Prof. at Colorado Univ. Boulder, CalTech (CA, USA), Weimar Univ. (D), and TU Dortmund (D).
Main hosting organization
University of Florence (UNIFI) traces its origins to the Studium Generale, which was established in 1321, and it is one of the largest organizations for research and higher education in Italy with about 55000 students, 1700 teaching and research staff, 1400 technical and administrative staff, and 1600 PhD students and research fellows. Researchers at the University of Florence operate within 21 different departments and can benefit from approximately 40 research structures, including inter-departmental and interuniversity centers, as well as specialized research, knowledge transfer, and advanced training centers.
Secondement hosting Organizations
BCMaterials, Basque Center on Materials (BCM), Appl. and Nanostructures (Leioa, Spain)
The Research fellow at BCM will be supervised by Prof. Senentxu Lanceros Mendez
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy)
The Research fellow at SSSA will be supervised by Prof. Antonio De Simone.