Emanuele Locatelli

Emanuele Locatelli studies polymeric and colloidal systems in and out of equilibrium at the University of Padua, Italy, where he has been a Rita Levi Montalcini research fellow since 2021. After earning his PhD in physics at the University of Padua, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Vienna (2014–2020) and the Technical University of Vienna (2020–2021).

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Worm-Inspired Active Filaments Sweep Disorder into Order

January 5, 2026

The ability of single active filaments to cluster smaller particles could inspire new materials for building soft robots that perform biological functions. Read More »