The Storm Lab has grown!

The team is glad to announce that new members have joined our research group. Starting from september, seven new people joined us, the Storm Lab UK is getting bigger!

The master students Lavinia Barducci and Nicola Fornarelli, both from Università di Pisa, joined us for their theses.


Lavinia is goin to work on the Magnetic Capsule project, while Nicola will be dedicated to the Magnetic local actuation platform.

Moreover, we have two new Ph.D. students: Aleks Attanasio and Giovanni Pittiglio.

Aleks carried out his MSc. in robotics engineering at Università di Genova (Genoa), where he worked on deep learning, model identification and imaging.

Giovanni recieved a MSc. from University of Pisa and a MRes from Imperial College, his fields of research is advanced nonlinear control and state estimation.

Finally, three postdoc researchers have joined the group: Manish Chauhan, James Chandler and Bruno Scaglioni

Manish recieved his Ph.D. from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, James recieved his Ph.D in Surgical technologies from the University of Leeds, Bruno recieved his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano where he worked on modelling, simulation and advanced control of flexible robots.