Alessandro Leronni

Staff

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Alessandro Leronni

My research is centred on the continuum modelling and finite element simulation of complex multiphysics systems, with the aim of elucidating the mechanisms that dictate their behaviour and failure.

My primary expertise lies in electrochemo-mechanical systems, and my work spans across various domains, including (1) smart materials, (2) energy storage, and (3) developmental biology. Specifically, I am developing multiphysics frameworks to investigate (1) the impact of relative humidity on the performance of ionic electroactive polymers used as actuators, (2) the influence of size effects on the growth of lithium dendrites in solid-state batteries, and (3) the interaction between bioelectrical and mechanobiological signalling in cancer progression and tissue regeneration.

My research is inherently multidisciplinary, integrating principles from solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and electrochemistry, and it often involves collaboration among engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists.

Research interests

Continuum modelling of electrochemo-mechanical systems
Finite element implementation of multiphysics frameworks
Smart materials, energy storage, and developmental biology

University of Bath Research Portal

https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/alessandro-leronni

Second Supervisors

Da Chen

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

Computer vision, deep learning, multimodal learning: general CV/ML tasks in practical scenarios.
Learning with limited data: Learning with imbalanced data, long-tailed data, open-set data, out-of-distribution data, etc; incremental learning, few-shot learning, etc.
Video processing: multimodal learning with video with visual, textual, and audio information.