Alessandra arrived in November 2012 to start her PhD in Sheffield before switching to part-time two years later when she moved back to Italy to take on a permanent technical position at the University of Bologna, which is also in her home town. Her work was partly done in collaboration with the contact cleaning company, Teknek. On Friday January 18, 2019 Alessandra successfully defended her thesis, which is entitled "The Adhesion and Mechanical Behaviour of Different Elastomers" in front of her examiners, Professor Vasileios Koutsos (University of Edinburgh) and Dr (now Professor) Fred Claeyssens of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Alessandra has since been very helpful to Abdulraheem with his work on the mechanical properties of polydimethylsiloxane.
Publications
A. Petroli, M. Petroli, M. Romagnoli, and M. Geoghegan "Determination of the rate-dependent adhesion of polydimethylsiloxane using an atomic force microscope" Polymer 262 125445 (2022)
Last updated in May 2026.