Matteo Fasano was born in Chieri (Torino) in 1987. He received his M.Sc. (magna cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in 2011. During undergraduate studies, Matteo was honored by Alta Scuola Politecnica, Optime, Accenture and Roberto Rocca awards. Matteo Fasano completed the Ph.D. in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2015. During doctoral studies, Matteo was one-year research fellow at Houston Methodist Research Institute (Houston, TX-USA) and visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA-USA). He also collaborated with scientists from Imperial College (London, UK) and University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN-USA). During the Ph.D., he was selected by Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato to join the interdisciplinary doctoral school on nanotechnology, which is reserved to outstanding doctoral scholars from the major Italian polytechnic universities. The doctoral thesis was entitled “Heat and mass transfer of water at nanoscale solid-liquid interfaces” (supervisors: Prof. Pietro Asinari and Dr. Eliodoro Chiavazzo), and it was awarded as the best Ph.D. research by the doctoral commission of the Energy Department (Politecnico di Torino) in 2015.
ENI AWARD 2017 Young Researcher of the Year