Enrico Zio is among the authors of the 36th Milano Produttiva Report 2026, presenting an analysis of nuclear technology and its role in the energy transition.
Prof. Francesco Di Maio, a faculty member of the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano, has been elected Chair of the IEEE Reliability Society Italy Chapter. In this role, he will coordinate the activities of the Italian community, promoting scientific initiatives, technical events, and collaboration between academia, professionals, and industry in the fields of reliability, safety, maintenance, and risk management.
From 6 to 8 July 2026, the Department of Energy hosted the H2POWRD workshop, bringing together PhD students, researchers and faculty members to explore advanced turbomachinery design and simulation methodologies through training activities, laboratory visits and an experimental test in the new blowdown wind tunnel for supersonic cascades.
A delegation from the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano visited Vietnam to strengthen scientific and academic collaboration with the University of Danang in the fields of energy and innovation.
The Physis PEB student team from Politecnico di Milano won the Innovation Prize and secured third place in the Energy Class category at the 2026 Monaco Energy Boat Challenge, an international competition dedicated to innovative technologies for sustainable boating.
Marco Agozzino, a PhD candidate in the STEN doctoral program at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, has been awarded a Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher fellowship, a Roberto Rocca Doctoral Fellowship, and financial support from Fondazione Zegna to conduct research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on carbon-based nanomaterials for energy and optoelectronic applications.
The Department of Energy hosted Prof. Dinh Duong Le and Dr. Nhi Thi Ai Nguyen from the University of Danang – University of Science and Technology במסגרת the Erasmus+ KA171 programme. During their visit, they delivered lectures on renewable energy integration and energy storage within the Ph.D. programme in Electrical Engineering, further reinforcing the long-standing collaboration between the two institutions.
The article *”Low-temperature standard-SCR over Cu-SSZ-13: selective inhibition of the oxidation half-cycle by mild hydrothermal aging”*, authored by researchers from the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Cummins Inc., has been selected as the **Front Cover** of the July issue of *Reaction Chemistry & Engineering*. The study reveals that hydrothermal aging of SCR catalysts affects a specific step of the NOx reduction reaction rather than the entire process. These findings provide new insights into catalyst performance degradation over time and pave the way for the development of more efficient, durable, and reliable emission aftertreatment systems.
The article “Measurement of Reactor Neutrino Oscillation with the First JUNO Data,” published in the prestigious journal Nature, marks the scientific debut of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), one of the world’s leading international experiments dedicated to the study of neutrinos. The study was also selected as the cover paper for the June 10, 2026 issue, an honor reserved for the most significant scientific contributions.
During the Politecnico di Milano’s 2026 PhD Graduation Ceremony, 672 new PhD graduates from 40 countries were officially awarded their doctoral degrees. Among them were the doctoral candidates who completed their research under the supervision of faculty members from the Department of Energy as part of the PhD Programme in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN).