Maurizio Vedani is full professor of Metallurgy at Politecnico di Milano and chief of the Material Section at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
The main subjects of his scientific activity concern research on microstructure and mechanical behaviour during manufacturing and service of several metals and metallic alloys, ranging from structural steels to non-ferrous alloys such as aluminium alloys, metal matrix composites, titanium and magnesium alloys.
Specific subjects of his research of activity in recent years are degradable Magnesium and Zinc alloys for biomedical applications, novel alloys for additive manufacturing and multi-materials produces by the same techniques.
He authored or co-authored more than 250 papers since 1989. Current research tracks given by Scopus, based on data updated to October 2024, provide a total of 6500+ citations from the indexed papers and an h-index of 39.