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Aerospace and aeronautics, analytical, organic and inorganic chemistry, nuclear and chemical engineering, materials, mechanical engineering and transportation, applied and general mathematics, applied physics, artificial intelligence, automotive engineering, biomedical engineering, building and construction, business and management, civil engineering, hardware and computer architecture, design, electrical and electronic engineering, energy, environmental engineering, geology and geomatics, industrial engineering and automation, telecommunications, optics, optoelectronics and photonics, polymers, software engineering, strategic, defence & security studies, urban and territorial planning. These are the fields in which Politecnico di Milano researchers are among the best in the world..

This has been established by a list of the World's Top 2% Scientists, a global ranking of the most productive scientists prepared by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier and the"Scopusdatabase of the world's scientific research. The ranking is the result of a bibliometric study, a discipline that uses mathematical and statistical techniques to analyse the quantity, quality and diffusion of publications within scientific communities. The authors analysed data relating to over 8 and a half million researchers from universities and research centres throughout the world. Among them, approximately 195,000 scientists stood out for their scientific authority and currently represent the best 2%. Approximately 5,000 of these work (or have worked for the majority of their careers) in Italy, 185 of whom at the Politecnico di Milano. Compare the downloadable data using this link

The citations and the relative  h-index (an index that measures the productivity and scientific impact of an author, based on both the number of publications and the number of citations received) are evaluated for each researcher. The ranking also indicates the scientific discipline, ranging from astrophysics to zoology, and the respective ranking, according to a classification of the author's profile obtained using advanced machine learning techniques to produce comparable results across different scientific areas.

THE 185 POLITECNICO SCIENTISTS IN THE TOP 2% IN THE WORLD

Aliverti, Andrea – Amaldi, Edoardo – Amigoni, Francesco – Angelino, Gianfranco – Ardagna, Danilo – Astolfi, Marco – Bagherifard, Sara – Baraldi, Piero – Barazzetti, Luigi – Baresi, Luciano – Baselli, Giuseppe – Beretta, S. – Berizzi, Alberto – Bernasconi, A. – Bertolini, Luca – Besagni, Giorgio – Biolzi, Luigi – Biondini, Fabio – Bittanti, Sergio – Bocchiola, Daniele – Bolchini, Cristiana – Bolzon, Gabriella – Bonarini, Andrea – Bozzini, Benedetto – Braghin, Francesco – Brambilla, Angelo – Brambilla, Marco – Brenna, Elisabetta – Bruni, S. – Cagno, Enrico – Camagni, Roberto – Campanari, Stefano – Capello, Edoardo – Capello, Roberta – Capone, Antonio – Carminati, Marco – Carvelli, Valter – Casolo, Siro – Cercignani, Carlo – Ceri, Stefano – Cerullo, Giulio – Cerutti, Sergio – Cheli, Federico – Chiesa, P. – Chiesa, Vittorio – Ciarletta, P. – Codecasa, Lorenzo – Colaneri, Patrizio – Colombi, Pierluigi – Colombo, Fabrizio – Colombo, Massimo G. – Comi, Claudia – Consonni, Stefano – Corigliano, Alberto – Coronelli, D. – Cova, Sergio – Crespi, Andrea – Cristaldi, Loredana – Cubeddu, Rinaldo – Cugola, Gianpaolo – D’antona, Gabriele – Daniel, Florian – De Silvestri, S. – Della Valle, Giuseppe – DeLuca, Luigi T. – Demir, Ali Gökhan – D’Errico, Gianluca – Diana, Giorgio – Dozio, L. – Faccioli, E. – Faranda, Roberto – Faravelli, Tiziano – Ferrara, Liberato – Ferrero, Alessandro – Ferrigno, Giancarlo – Finazzi, Marco – Forzatti, Pio – Frassoldati, Alessio – Fraternali, Piero – Frigo, Carlo Albino – Fuggetta, Alfonso – Gambarova, Pietro G. – Ganazzoli, Fabio – Garzotto, Franca – Gazzola, Filippo – Gentile, Carmelo – Ghezzi, Carlo – Ghioni, Massimo – Giglio, M. – Gioda, Giancarlo – Giuffrida, Antonio – Grasselli, Maurizio – Groppi, Gianpiero – Guagliano, Mario – Guardone, Alberto – Harland, Christine Mary – Ielmini, Daniele – Karimi, Hamid Reza – Lacaita, Andrea L. – Lanzi, Pier Luca – Laporta, Paolo – Leva, Alberto – Leva, Sonia – Levantino, Salvatore – Lietti, Luca – Lovera, Marco – Lozza, Giovanni – Macchi, Ennio – Macchi, Piero – MacChiarella, Giuseppe – Maffezzoni, Paolo – Magni, Vittorio – Maier, Giulio – Mainardi, Luca – Manenti, F. – Manzolini, G. – Mariani, Stefano – Marseguerra, M. – Martinelli, Mario – Masarati, Pierangelo – Matricciani, Emilio – Mehl, M. – Meille, Stefano Valdo – Mele, Andrea – Melloni, Andrea – Metrangolo, Pierangelo – Migliavacca, F. – Milani, Gabriele – Minisci, Francesco – Monti-Guarnieri, Andrea – Morbidelli, Massimo – Natta, G. – Nisoli, M. – Norgia, Michele – Nova, Roberto – Onorati, A. – Pandolfi, A. – Paolucci, Roberto – Pata, Vittorino – Pattavina, Achille – Pedeferri, P. – Pedotti, Antonio – Pennacchi, Paolo – Pennati, Giancarlo – Pernici, Barbara – Piazza, Roberto – Pifferi, Antonio – Piroddi, Luigi – Prati, Claudio Maria – Quarteroni, Alfio – Raimondi, Manuela Teresa – Ranzi, Eliseo – Redaelli, Alberto – Resnati, Giuseppe – Righetti, Pier Giorgio – Rocca, F. – Rocco, Paolo – Romano, Matteo C. – Rosso, Renzo – Sala, G. – Samori, Carlo – Savaresi, Sergio M. – Scaioni, Marco – Scardigli, Fabio – Scattolini, Riccardo – Spagnolini, Umberto – Strano, Matteo – Svelto, O. – Taliercio, Alberto – Tanzi, Maria Cristina – Taroni, Paola – Tebaldini, Stefano – Tolio, Tullio A.M. – Topputo, Francesco – Tornatore, M. – Torricelli, Alessandro – Tosi, Alberto – Tronconi, Enrico – Turner, John Rodney – Valente, Marco – Vedani, M. – Zanero, Stefano – Zappa, Franco – Zerbi, G. – Zio, Enrico

The winning research projects of the Polisocial Award 2022, dedicated to the theme ‘Local Development and Ecological Transition’ have been chosen. The funded projects will undertake to promote transition processes and ecological innovation for sustainable and autonomous development, aiming at tangible results and adopting a long-term perspective. The start date of the projects is 23 January 2023.

The Polisocial Award initiative is financed with funds from the IRPEF 5 per thousand and supports the development at the Politecnico di Milano of scientific research with a high social impact.

Find out more: Where do the 5 per mille donations that alumni have given to the Politecnico over recent years end up?

THE PROJECTS

PRESTO, PReventive and ecologic Engineering Strategies for fragile bones: Towards green healthcare 

Departments involved: DMEC DEIB DIG 

The project examines preventive treatments and eco-sustainable minimally invasive approaches capable of containing bone fragility, with the support of a multidisciplinary network extended to social, health and third sector entities. Looking ahead, the goal is to reduce the social impact of long hospitalizations and the ecological footprint of the Lombardy healthcare sector. 

NBSouth, Nature-Based Solutions via retrofitting for Climate Adaptation: a case in the Global South

Departments involved: DASTU, DABC, DICA

NBSouth proposes an exploration of the possibilities of employing nature-based solutions (NBS) for adaptation to climate change. Specific attention is dedicated to water management, thermoregulation and infrastructural adaptation of densely populated urban areas starting from a case study in Brasilia, in an area threatened by drought, heat islands and desertification. 

I-FERME, Intelligent inFrastructure dEsign foR a Multifunctional Efficient farm

Departments involved: DMEC DICA DEIB DENG

Researchers are studying how to improve the efficiency of multifunctional farms in Congo and sub-Saharan Africa. The strategy put in place focuses on the creation of new and simplified tools for the design of road infrastructures and support services for food processing and preservation, optimized on local resources and needs and made available to the communities involved and other target groups. 

CHAR:ME, Biochar and biomass-derived products from waste as sustainable and safe domestic fuel

Departments involved: DICA DCMC DENG DEIB

CHAR:ME aims at the development and diffusion of a sustainable technology for the recovery of solid fuel from organic waste. The aim is twofold: to replace the conventional alternatives (wood and charcoal), which are among the main causes of deforestation in developing countries and, at the same time, to make domestic cooking safer in these contexts. The case study under consideration is in Madagascar and includes a pilot experience on the island of Nosy Be 

AMAZING, Atlas Mountains, Aures Zone. INterconnecting local sciences and Global challenges

Departments involved: DICA DASTU DMEC DABC DIG

The Wadi Abiod valley, in Algeria, is faced with the global challenges of abandonment, growing desertification and the loss of knowledge. AMAZING offers a targeted and participatory combination of ancient sciences and new technologies, to enhance the historical buildings, optimize water management and recover the variety of economic activities and social complexity that have always characterized the identity of the valley.

To donate: www.dona.polimi.it

One of the flagships of the educational offer of the Politecnico di Milano is the flight test campaign of the Experimentation in Flight programme. It is a unique opportunity that combines passion, academic preparation and practical experience in a fascinating and highly specialized field, explains prof. Lorenzo Trainelli, programme head: the so-called airmanship, or the ability to interact safely with flying machines and the airport environment.

Each student (who wishes, it is not mandatory) plans and executes a flight test mission, acting as a Flight Test Engineer alongside the pilot. The goal is to expose students to the complete Flight Testing process: from planning, to practical execution, to data analysis and reporting, supporting them in developing a skill that cannot be studied from books.

ON BOARD THE FLYING CLASSROOM

We affectionately call it “P92DAER”: it is a Tecnam P92 Echo ultralight aircraft operated by the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER) for over ten years and then grounded following a breakdown.

To maximize the opportunities for students to access the experimental tests in flight, the P92 is essential: for this reason, the University has decided to recover it in flight conditions, an operation which involved some important interventions. Completely renovated, on Saturday 26 November 2022 the flying classroom of the Politecnico di Milano made the first flight of its new life over the Bresso airport ‘G. Clerici’.

The operation was sponsored by Longines, Tecnam and a large group of donors through the Alumni community, in collaboration with Aero Club Milano (ACM), the historic flight school operating from Bresso airport, with which a highly successful partnership is in place for several years and which, among other things, will allow the flying classroom to be operated from the Milan airport just a few minutes from the Bovisa campus of the Politecnico.

Donations, sponsorships and departmental funds have all contributed to a body of work that includes major items such as engine replacement, ballistic parachute installation, various structural and instrumentation modifications, painting and badge application, and registration as an ‘advanced ultralight’ with registration numbers I-5882 (instead of ‘basic ultralight’ as it was previously).

P92DAER is ready to become a real flying laboratory, permanently instrumented for the acquisition of flight data, and will allow a reduction in the cost of flight hours for educational activities. It will also have a strong impact in terms of research, in particular on the analysis of flight data for the development of predictive models, both in the context of European Commission projects and in collaboration with companies and institutions in the aeronautics sector: experimentation on aerodynamics, innovative materials, sensors, control and automation laws, measurement techniques and much more.