Claudio Tosto

Date of last update: 01/02/2025

Claudio Tosto obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2014 from the University of Catania (grade of 110/110 cum laude), presenting a thesis on the fatigue behavior of high-strength steel components (thesis title: Determination of Wohler curves for mechanical components (high strength steel bolts) by Thermographic Method, supervisor: Prof. A. Risitano). He then pursued an MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2017  (grade of 110/110 cum laude), completing an experimental thesis on engineering polymers for additive manufacturing (thesis title:Mechanical behavior of FDM materials: effect of process conditions, supervisor: Prof. G. Cicala). In 2022, he earned an International and Europaeus Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology (XXXIV cycle, Systems, Energy, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering), with a dissertation titled “Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing”. His doctoral research, conducted in collaboration with an industrial partner in Italy's racing sector, included an international exchange program at the University of Limerick (Ireland).

In 2022, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to the project “Development of Innovative Additive Technologies for Composites”, under the PRIN "Multiple Advanced Materials Manufactured by Additive Technologies" (20179SWLKA). This work also involved an international research collaboration at the Institute for Polymer Materials and Plastics Technology (PuK) at Clausthal University of Technology (Germany).

Between 2021 and 2022, he worked as a Research Fellow on the PON PNR 2015–2020 research project Thalassa: Technology and Materials for Safe, Low-Consumption, and Low Life Cycle Cost Vessels and Crafts (CUP B46C18000720005). His project, carried out at the University of Catania, focused on “Composite Materials Based on Natural Fibers and Bioepoxy Matrices”. 

Awards

• Winner of the Best Poster Award by the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) at the “Asian Materials and Design Education Symposium" (AMDES 2025), 13-17 December 2024, Singapore.
• Winner of the “A. Lucci” Award 2024, granted by the Italian Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (AICAT). This award is given to an Italian researcher under the age of 35 at the application deadline who has made significant contributions to the field of Calorimetry and/or Thermal Analysis.
• Winner of the Participation Grant awarded by the Italian Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (AICAT) for the “16th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (MEDICTA 2023),” July 19–21, 2023, Porto, Portugal.  
• Winner of the Participation Grant awarded by the Italian Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (AICAT) as an Invited Speaker at the international conference “13th European Symposium for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ESTAC 13),” September 19–22, 2022, Palermo, Italy. Presented the Keynote Lecture *“The use of Thermo-mechanical methods to characterize the mesostructure of objects manufactured with Layer-by-Layer approaches.”*  
• Winner of the SAMPE Students Selection 2021 for participation in the international conference “SAMPE Europe Conference,” Baden/Zurich, September 26–30, 2021.  
• Winner of the Participation Grant for the “XLII National Conference on Calorimetry, Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics,” January 27–28, 2021, online event, University of Udine.  
• Winner of the Best Poster Award at the “V International Congress Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry” (CEEC-TAC 5) jointly with the “14th Mediterranean Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry” (Medicta 2019), August 27–30, 2019, Rome, Italy.  

Editor activity

• Assistant Editor of the journal Thermal Advances, Volume 1, Issue 1, ISSN: 3050-4635, Elsevier.   Area of interest: Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science (General), Metals and Alloys, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. From October 24, 2024, to present.  
• Special Issue Editor: Guest Editor of the special issue titled "Thermal Conductivity & Thermal Diffusivity of Hybrid Materials: State of the Art and Perspectives". Journal: Hybrid Advances. Publisher: Elsevier. From June 3, 2022, to present.  
• Special Issue Editor: Guest Editor of the special issue within the “Polymer Application” section titled *"Resins for Additive Manufacturing". Journal: Polymers (IF: 4.7, CiteScore 8.0, Q1 in Polymer Science category). Publisher: MDPI. From August 29, 2022, to October 15, 2024.