Elisa Fracchia is a Post Doc Researcher at University of Genoa, Italian Centre of Excellence in Logistics, Transport and Infrastructure (CIELI) department. She obtained her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a Master's degree in Material Science and Engineering in 2017. She subsequently worked as a research fellow until 2021, when she started the PhD in Management, Production and Design at Politecnico di Torino. Her research interest concerns light alloys, particularly aluminium alloys, for wrought and casting purposes. The research of the whole group deals with the study and characterization of automotive components and the design of new challenging alloys. After PhD, she moved to a Post Doc position at University of Genoa, where she continued her research and start working on renewable resources too.