PhD
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Naples Federico II
Piazzale Tecchio, 80
80125 Naples, Italy
Tel.: +39 081 7682391
E-mail: massimiliano.villone@unina.it
Personal page on the website of the lecturers of University Federico II: www.docenti.unina.it/massimilianomaria.villone
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4965-4411
Mendeley profile: www.mendeley.com/profiles/massimiliano-maria-villone/
Publons profile: publons.com/researcher/1717363/massimiliano-maria-villone/
Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimiliano_Villone
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimiliano-villone-10534925a
Expertise
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), computational rheology, soft matter, deformable systems, microfluidics, artificial intelligence (AI) applications
Place and date of birth
Naples, 7 January 1987
Education and Scientific Career
– November 2022 – to date: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II
– November 2019 – November 2022: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II
– September 2019: National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in the Competition Sector 09/D2
– September – October 2018: Visiting Researcher at the Department of Mechanics of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
– January 2018 – to date: Collaborator of the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems Eduardo Caianiello (ISASI) of the National Research Council (CNR)
– December 2016 – November 2019: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
– June – September 2016: Scholarship holder at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
– June 2014 – May 2016: Post-Doc at the Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care @CRIB of the Italian Institute of Technology in Naples, Italy
– May 2014: PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
– June – September 2013: Collaborator at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy
– October 2011 – March 2012, May – June 2013: Research Guest in the Group of Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
– March 2011 – May 2014: PhD Student in Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
– July 2010: Master’s Degree magna cum laude in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
– September 2008: Bachelor’s Degree magna cum laude in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Knowledge of languages: Italian (native speaker), English (Level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), French (Level C1 of the CEFR), Spanish (Level B2 of the CEFR)
Teaching
Bachelor’s degree courses
– Laboratorio di Ingegneria Chimica 1 – Modulo B (Chemical Engineering Computational Lab) @ chemical engineering bachelor’s degree
– Identificazione e Simulazione di Processi Chimici (Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineering) @ chemical engineering bachelor’s degree
Master’s degree courses
– Advanced Numerical techniques for Soft Matter Engineering @ chemical engineering master’s degree
– Lectures in the Dinamica Non Lineare dei Processi Chimici (Nonlinear Systems) course held by P.L. Maffettone @ chemical engineering master’s degree
– Lectures in the Soft Matter Engineering course held by P.L. Maffettone @ chemical engineering master’s degree
PhD courses
– Statistical Methods for Data Analysis @ industrial product and process engineering PhD program
Awards
– 2011: Premio Miglior Laureato in Ingegneria Chimica AA 2009/2010 awarded by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II
– 2011: Premio di Laurea Specialistica “Panta Rei” awarded by Società Italiana di Reologia
– 2010: Premio di Studio “Roberto Rocca” awarded by Tenaris Dalmine