Elia Marin graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 at the University of Udine, where in 2008 got a second specialization in metallurgical engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Padova, in 2012. In 2014 he moved to Japan as a JSPS Long Term Fellowship, hosted at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. In 2017 he got a “Specially Appointed Assistant Professor” position at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. In 2018 he was hired as a “Global Excellence” fellow for a tenure track assistant professor position at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. In 2022 he was promoted to Associate professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the editorial board of “Materials & Design” (Elsevier). His research interests are inorganic materials and properties, mechanics of materials and materials, machine elements and tribology, applied physical properties, composite materials and interfaces and metallic material properties.