Federico Carpi is returning as a new Visiting Professors in SEMS. Federico was previously an academic in SEMS until 2016, when he took up a position at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (UniFi). Since then, he has continued his collaboration with colleagues in SEMS acting as a co-supervisor of 5 recently graduated PhD students (Chen, Frediani, Zahabi, Ghilardi and Boys) and a current PhD student, Giacomo Sasso. This appointment will allow us to strengthen our collaborations in the area of electro active polymer systems and devices and in particular on dielectric elastomer actuator devices.

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