ALESSIA ROMANI

Bridging
engineering and design
for sustainability
through open materials
and technologies.

Hi! I'm Alessia Romani, a Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee and Postdoctoral Associate at FAST Lab, Western University (Canada).

My work lies at the intersection of product and engineering design, materials, digital fabrication, and sustainability, with a focus on circular practices and open design. My research experience and background merge materials engineering with product and engineering design, developing and characterising sustainable materials for design and 3D printing, and keeping a hands-on and application-driven approach.

Holding a Ph.D. in Design with a specialization in Materials Science and Technology (with Honors, 2024) from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and more than seven years of research experience in materials engineering environments, I am exploring the potential of openness — in materials, products, technologies, processes, and systems — toward more circular, sustainable, and regenerative futures!

Latest News!

Oct 30, 2026

📢 · The UP3DCYCLING project is taking shape! Happy to contribute to the collaboration between ERPI (Université de Lorraine) and FAST (Western University), exploring distributed recycling for additive manufacturing through real-world applications!

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Alessia Romani

Postdoctoral Associate

[email protected]

Faculty of Engineering

Western University, Canada

1151 Richmond Street,
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7

Visiting Researcher
ENSGSI, Université de Lorraine, France

Associate Editor
HardwareX, Elsevier

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ALESSIA ROMANI

Bridging engineering and design for sustainability through open materials and technologies.

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Bridging
engineering and design
for sustainability
through open materials
and technologies.