Francesco Torre obtained his Master’s Degree in Chemistry in 2016 at the University of Sassari, where he first approached the field of mechanochemistry with a particular focus on solid-solid and solid-gas reactions. He got a PhD in Innovation Sciences and Technologies at the University of Cagliari, where he worked within the European project H2020 FET-OPEN ICARUS (Innovative Coarsening-resistant Alloys with enhanced Radiation tolerance and Ultra-fine-grained Structure for aerospace application) and the international framework CRM–Extreme (Critical Raw Materials for Extreme Applications). During his PhD, he performed both theoretical and experimental research on coarsening-resistant nanocrystalline metal alloys, and carried out visiting periods at the University of Southampton (UK) and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). In 2021, he joined the CIC energiGUNE as a postdoctoral researcher in the Solid-State Chemical Reactions group, within the Thermal Energy Storage Area.

• Synthesis of nanostructured materials by mechanochemical routes
• Microstructural evolution of metastable materials
• Thermodynamics and kinetics of solid-solid and gas-solid transformations

• Physical chemistry
• Materials science and powder metallurgy
• Thermodynamics of nanostructured materials

• Best poster Award, SUPERMAT and ICARUS International Spring School, 15-17/05/ 2017, Chia, Sardegna (Italy).