The research group deals with steelmaking, materials innovation and environmental impact mitigation. It focuses on design and improvement and innovation of ironmaking and steelmaking processes, electrolytic metals production, smelting practice to reduce GHG emissions (even by the exploitation reducing agent from biogenic sources), the extraction of metals from brines, application of binder jet techniques, rolling and forging of the metal alloys and solidification/foundry practices of steels, aluminum and Ni-superalloys, functional materials and metal-ceramic composites produced by conventional technologies or by using Binder Jetting additive manufacturing. Such topics are dealt with also by the integration with circular economy practices: scrap recycling, recovery and recycling of strategic and critical metals, recycling of packaging, treatment of dismissed tools or electronic devices etc.. The study of the production process is based on an integrated approach coupling the design of new metal alloys and their characterization in terms of the mechanical behaviour, fracture mechanics, corrosion performances, coatings and their tribological behaviour for the application in the production of renewable energies, nuclear technologies, oil & gas, mechanical and food agri-food industries.