Giacomo Moretti

Giacomo Moretti holds a MSc degree in Energy Engineering (University of Pisa, IT – 2013) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa, IT – 2017). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh, UK (2016), and a research fellow at Scuola Sant’Anna (2017-2020) and Saarland University, DE (2020-2022), which he joined with a Marie-Curie European fellowship. Currently, he is an associate professor at the University of Trento (IT), where he leads a research group on multifunctional material machines. His research interests cover the fields of multifunctional materials (especially electroactive polymers), energy harvesting, and soft robotics. He is the PI of an ERC starting grant project (flEAP) on electrostatic actuators and energy harvesters.