Welcome and presentations of visiting professors and students

May 17, 2024

Last Thursday, May 16, members of the GICITED group met to welcome and attend the presentation of the following visitors:

  • Dr. Daniel Pagnusa is a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and is doing a two-month research stay (June-July) in our group, with the aim of performing acoustic and fire behavior tests of materials.
  • Víctor Manuel Santos Rodríguez is a master's student in environmental engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de México and is doing a research stint to carry out fire behavior tests of the materials developed during his master's thesis.
  • Chiara Lombardo and Marta Pacinotti are architects who recently graduated from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and are doing a three-month stay at the EPSEB Materials Laboratory, as part of the Erasmus+ Traineeship program. They presented their final degree works entitled "AESTHETIC EARTH - Exploring earth architectural decorations", on the decorations of earth architecture worldwide from the social and cultural meaning, and "RAW EARTH AND DESIGN, Project of a thermal panel of wall”, on the thermal and sensory properties of the earth material, for the development of an earth heating panel as a design element for interior architecture.