Role
Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company , co-founder of BeDimensional and expert in technology transfer in advanced materials
Bio
After graduating in Engineering Physics, she continued her studies with a PhD in Physics at the Polytechnic University of Milan, during which she spent a year at the Institute of Materials Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She then moved to France for a postdoctoral fellowship. In 2014, she returned to Italy and offered the skills and experience she had gained abroad to the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa. In 2016, she co-founded and became the sole director of BeDimensional. A start-up born from the IIT laboratories. In March 2017, she became a partner at McKinsey & Company .
During his doctoral studies, he studied oxide electronics, focusing in particular on the study of phenomena characterizing the interface between ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials. At the Italian Institute of Technology, he dedicated himself to the technology transfer project for new two-dimensional materials, particularly graphene, which originated at IIT, becoming sole director of the startup BeDimensional . At the Graphene Labs , he studied two-dimensional crystals, the new family of " smart " materials born in 2004 with the isolation of the first and best-known of these materials, which possess unique mechanical, electrical, thermal, and optical characteristics. Graphene, known as the wonder material, has a mechanical strength approximately 200 times greater than steel and extraordinary thermal conductivity. It is biocompatible, biodegradable, capable of withstanding a higher electrical current density than copper, and is a virtually impermeable barrier to the vast majority of chemical elements, while maintaining its flexibility and lightness. At the Labs , a process for the production of these materials, scalable to an industrial scale, has been developed. Two-dimensional crystals can also be appropriately mixed in plastic matrices, carbon/glass fibers, or metals, creating high- performance composites . These opportunities open up a new industrial landscape unimaginable until a few years ago.