Alberta Aversa Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino. She studied at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II where she obtained her bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2010. She then studied at the Politecnico di Torino where she graduated in Materials Engineering in 2013 and gained her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology in 2017. She became assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino in 2018. Her main research interest is materials development for additive manufacturing (AM) processes and she focuses in particular on the characterisation and the development of new aluminium alloys for AM.