Dr. Davide Masato

Davide Masato is an assistant professor at the Department of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell. He received his BS in mechanical engineering in 2011, MS in mechanical engineering in 2014, and Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2018 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova in Italy. In 2016, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Bradford in the UK, working at the Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at UMass Lowell, he was a post-doc researcher at the University of Padova, where he worked at the Te.Si. Laboratory for Precision Engineering and Manufacturing. His research interests include plastic product design, polymer processing technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and computer-aided engineering. His research has been funded by federal agencies such as NASA, the US Army, and REMADE (Department of Energy) as well as private companies in the plastics industry.