Pietro Cataldi is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow in the Smart Materials group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)-Genova. He is working on the BioConTact project that targets developing a class of electronic conductors with tunable degradation for robotic tactile skin. He finalized his M.Sc. in Physics at the Università di Genova in 2013, performing the thesis in the Electron dynamiX group of the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin. He completed his Ph.D. in Bionanotechnology in 2018 in the IIT-Genova under the supervision of Dr. Ilker Bayer and Dr. Athanassia Athanassiou. In March 2018, he was sponsored by Ghelfi Ondulati S.P.A. to develop coatings to improve the mechanical properties of cardboard. In September 2018, he moved to the group of Prof. Ian Kinloch and Dr. Mark Bissett at the University of Manchester National Graphene Institute, working in the EU graphene flagship. In 2020, he joined the group led by Dr. Mario Caironi at IIT-Milano, being part of the ELFO ERC project whose goal is to develop electronic devices that are safely edible. He is interested in materials for flexible, green, and edible electronics and biopolymer-based composites for soft robotics.
Pietro Cataldi
Smart Materials
Title: Master Student - Solid State Physics
Institute: Università degli studi di Genova
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 2011 To: 2013
Title: Erasmus Student
Institute: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Location: Berlin
Country: Germany
From: 2011 To: 2012
Title: Master Thesis Student
Institute: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Location: Berlin
Country: Germany
From: 2013 To: 2013
Title: PhD Student
Institute: Università degli studi di Genova @IIT
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 2014 To: 2018
Title: Research Associate
Institute: University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Country: UK
From: 2018 To: 2020
